[spectre] ISEA2011: The Leonardo Education and Art Forum: Transdisciplinary Visual Arts, Science & Technology Renewal Post-New Media Assimilation.

[czegledy]

From Paul Thomas:

Dear Friends
I am delighted to report that the Leonardo 
Education and Art Forum (LEAF) continues its 
successful international education 
event-initiative and correspondingly we would 
like to invite you to join us as for the 
Transdisciplinary Visual Arts, Science & 
Technology Renewal Post-New Media Assimilation 
workshop at the International Symposium of 
Electronic Art, Istanbul. The LEAF workshop is 
held in collaboration with ISEA 2011 Education 
Workshop led by Nina Czegledy for the public 
sessions scheduled at the forthcoming festival 
and conference.
Paul Thomas LEAF International Affiliate

Sponsored by the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA)
The Leonardo Education and  Art Forum: 
Transdisciplinary Visual Arts, Science & 
Technology Renewal Post-New Media Assimilation.

Dates: Saturday, 17 September, 2011 - 13:00 - 16:00

Location:
Sabanci Center, Levent
Sabancž Center, Room B
WORKSHOP MODERATOR: Associate Professor Paul Thomas
College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales

WORKSHOP LEADERS: 
Focus Group 1. Discuss transdisciplinary 
collaborations: Petra  Gemeinboeck & Andres 
Burbano
Focus Group 2. Discuss transdisciplinary studio 
practice: Ross Harley and Ionat Zurr
Focus Group 3. Discuss transdisciplinary theory: 
Edward Colless and Wendy Coones

WORKSHOP ABSTRACT:
Transdisciplinarity is deemed 'radical', 
'provisional and opportunistic' because it 
challenges traditional educational paradigms. It 
focuses critical and creative attention onto 
domain-specific problem areas of 'chance', 
'discontinuity' and 'materiality' (Foucault, 
1976) to transcend limits within established 
disciplinary knowledge practices. This enables 
(re)visioning of the role, activity and value of 
Art Schools in uniting the pedagogical and 
technological strengths of the humanities and 
sciences in a university context, utilising 
conceptual growth, experimental innovation, 
visual communication and flexible learning spaces 
to deliver a model of Transdisciplinarity.
This workshop will address and share experiences 
and difficulties encountered while developing 
transdisciplinary art-science research, teaching, 
and when meshing curricula from diverse fields. 
The transdisciplinary model will be explored in 
the context of the trans-migratory role of ISEA 
and look for a different voice from the various 
constructed international institutional 
perspectives.
WORKSHOP
Organised around three specific focus areas this 
workshop will address and share experiences and 
difficulties encountered while developing 
transdisciplinary art-science research, teaching, 
and when meshing curricula from diverse fields. 
The first focus group led by Dr. Petra 
Gemeinboeck and Andres Burbano will discuss 
transdisciplinary collaboration. The panelists 
will offer insight into how experimental nature 
of art practice is able to deal with and navigate 
the uncharted territory of transdisciplinary 
research. Dr. Petra  Gemeinboeck will explore the 
challenge of developing a horizontal, open 
transdisciplinary framework for research 
collaboration that perforates and transcends 
existing disciplinary boundaries within an 
institutional system where both resources and 
career paths are confined to vertically aligned, 
formally defined codes and practices. Andreas 
Burbano will highlight the importance of 
acquiring and developing the tools necessary for 
transdisciplinary research drawing on his own 
media arts practice and current PhD research on 
Technology and Media in Latin America.
The second group led by Prof. Ross Harley and Dr. 
Ionat Zurr will discuss transdisciplinary studio 
practice. Prof. Ross Harley, using the example of 
e-SCAPE a collaborative partnership between 
Professor Richard Goodwin's Porosity Studio, and 
The Collabor8 Project (C8), in collaboration with 
Donghua University (Shanghai) and COFA (Sydney), 
will outline some of the successes and challenges 
encountered in the process of working across 
disciplinary, cultural, and institutional 
boundaries. Dr. Zurr will discuss and unravel 
some of the issues concerned with what 
constitutes "research" in the different 
disciplines, when the research includes hands-on 
practice that involves life manipulation as is 
the case with SymbioticA's Master of Science 
(Biological Arts) degree at University of Western 
Australia where she is academic coordinator.
Dr Edward Colless and Wendy Coones will be 
leading the discussion on transdisciplinary 
theory, the focus of group 3.  Dr. Colless 
proposes that "transdisciplinary" be theorized as 
a disruption to interdisciplinary conferring: 
that we encourage it as disagreement and, in a 
more demanding finesse of its alterity, as the 
"un-relation" of disciplines. Subsequently the 
prefix "trans" in transdisciplinary is to be 
taken to suggest drift and errancy, as 
disciplines cross each other with the eventful 
possibility of collision or collusion but without 
the eventuality of their consensus. Provocatively 
this crossing is to be referred to as an 
occultation in that it induces an esoteric 
knowledge not manifestly conferrable, discernible 
or communicable. Coones calls for the development 
of polycultural space of transdisciplinary 
practice that through taking into consideration 
the parameters of individual endeavors and their 
possible influence on one another, a larger image 
of the interconnectedness can be discussed.


Further information contact Mazena Topka marzena.topka at westnet.com.au
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