Newsletter #6

An Arts Education Imperative: New Directions for Sustainability 
Newsletter No. 6
1 October 2021

Hello members,  

Update on progress  

We have received some beautiful video responses and we want to thank you for your wonderful video contributions to this project! 

https://doi.org/10.26188/16713883

Our data scientist is taking ‘core-samples’, twenty image snapshots taken every 20 seconds from each video that will be stitched into an image quilt. If you’re curious about image quilts, we’ll be getting back to each of you who have submitted videos with your computationally stitched image. Until then, this is some playing around with quilt layouts.

About your PechaKucha style videos

If you need more time to execute your PechaKucha style videos (20 slides each for 20 secs), we have good news for you. The deadline has been extended to 10 October. Later video submissions still have the chance to be showcased in our online gallery along with the others. 

Updates on the Arts Imperatives Mozilla Hub 

Mozilla Hubs is a collaboration tool used to create virtual spaces to be inhabited and frequented using mixed reality. Its first-person nature (either by VR or keyboard + mouse) sets it apart from other browser-based collaboration tools. The Mozilla environment is powered through an interconnected environment which can integrate many different platforms into its interface. Hubs offer innovative solutions for replacing non-physical interactions and can be used to encourage interaction between patrons. As everything is viewed at the ‘human-scale’, this platform offers the potential to be used as both a gallery and collaboration or meeting site for the research project. 

Please jump in and interact with the development of the two Arts Imperatives sites in Mozilla Hubs (you might run into Jess, Amanda, Neda or Kate in there): 

1. Project Outdoor Lobby https://hub.link/nFyc5iB
2. Arts Imperatives Indoor Gallery https://hub.link/wWJEaXq

Online research platforms 

Digital methods of creation, collection, curation, and collaboration are central to achieve sustainable arts education as an imperative of this project. As a result, varied platforms and digital spaces, including, Figshare, Omeka, Zotero, Teams, Mozilla Hubs, etc. are being introduced to simultaneously and in collaboration, shape and inform the project’s outcome. Our team has decided to share short demonstrations of how these will operate to serve the purpose of this project. This week’s presentation (see below) shortly discusses Figshare which can be used to manage different projects and data.

Figshare introductory video:  
https://doi.org/10.26188/16713883 
Dr Jenni Hillman | Project Manager 
Nedasadat Sajadi | Research Assistant 
Melbourne Graduate School of Education 
The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia 
E: jenni.hillman@unimelb.edu.au 
neda.sajadi@unimelb.edu.au 
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I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I live and work, the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung peoples of the Kulin nation, and pay my respects to the Elders, past, present and future.