lisa gye: the mass scoping study & nomad database

AUSTRALIAN MEDIA ARTISTS HAVE A STRONG REPUTATION AS BEING AMONGST THE MOST ACTIVE, CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE IN THE WORLD. THESE ARTISTS AND THE INFRASTRUCTURES THAT SUPPORT THEM HAVE CREATED A STRONG COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE THAT HAS INFLUENCED BOTH ART MAKING AND ART INSTITUTIONS HERE AND INTERNATIONALLY. LOCATING THE EXACT TIME AND PLACE WHEN THIS BEGAN IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. HOWEVER, IT IS CLEAR THAT SINCE THE EARLY 1990s, THE DIGITAL TURN HERALDED BY THE EMERGENCE OF THE PERSONAL COMPUTER AND THE INTERNET HAS LED TO AN EXPLOSION OF DIVERSITY IN ART PRACTICES. THESE PRACTICES HAVE NOT ONLY CREATED A BREADTH AND DEPTH OF MEDIA ART BUT ALONG THE WAY HAVE TRANSFORMED MANY MORE TRADITIONAL ARTISTIC FORMS FROM DANCE TO PAINTING TO SCULPTURE.

http://www.realtimearts.net/article/90/9416

To coincide with the launch of NOMAD (National Organization of Media Arts Database), Real Time Arts have drawn together a digest of RealTime articles addressing education in the media arts.

http://www.realtimearts.net/feature_contents/Media_Arts_Education_Digest

New Media Department, University of Maine

Promotion and Tenure Guidelines Addendum: Rationale for Redefined Criteria

New Criteria for New Media 

Version 2.2, January 2007 

Authors: Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito, and Owen Smith in collaboration with Steve Evans and Nate Stormer.  

ABSTRACT: An argument for redefining promotion and tenure criteria for faculty in new media departments of today’s universities. 

Introduction 

Recognition and achievement in the field of new media must be measured by standards as high as but different from those in established artistic or scientific disciplines. As the reports from the American Council of Learned Societies[1], the Modern Language Association[2], and the University of Maine[3] recommend, promotion and tenure guidelines must be revised to encourage the creative and innovative use of technology if universities are to remain competitive in the 21st century.

http://newmedia.umaine.edu/interarchive/new_criteria_for_new_media.html

Collaborative Commons is a 100% free web service that supports artists with the creative development of their projects. It is designed specifically to support people wanting to engage in creative, interpretative and critical art practices.

http://collaborativecommons.com

Origins

The Open Source Art School originated from a suggestion by the reader anddavidh during a discussion on the art life blog about the problems of art education. the reader then set up the open source art school blog which has slowly transformed itself into this website which was set up by Ian Milliss.

http://www.opensourceartschool.com/