[spectre] "Paradigm shifts in art/science education and practice" event at RENEW.

[czegledy]

Dear All,

  if you come to the Media Art Histories 2013 in Riga

PLEASE JOIN US at the "Paradigm shifts in art/science education
and practice" event  at RENEW.

please find information below

looking forward to see you

all the best

nina


Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW
"Paradigm shifts in art/science education
and practice" event
Thursday, October 10,  2013  18.00- 20.00
Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Strelnieku street, 4th floor

18:00   Welcome: Oliver Grau, Co-chair Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW
Professor for Image Science, Danube University, Krems

18: 05   Welcome: Chris Salter, Director of the Hexagram Concordia
Centre for Research,  Associate Professor, Computation Arts
Concordia University, Montreal

18: 10   Welcome and  Introduction: Nina Czegledy - Workshop Leader
Senior Fellow, KMDI, University of Toronto,

18: 15  Brief introductions by all participants including student groups:
	Master Students from Danube University Krems led by
	Wendy Coones and  students from Rigas Stradinas and University
	and Liepaja University led by Ilva Skulte and Rasa Smite

18: 25  Brief presentations on International and Regional Initiatives
including SEAD: White papers, presented by SEAD members

18 :50 Break-out discussions.

19: 30 Report on break-out discussions

19: 45 Summary.

The event brings together academics, researchers, and conference
participants to discuss the necessity of paradigm shifts in higher
education, a topic heatedly discussed by educators, experts, policy
makers as well as institutional leaders with varying success. Despite
numerous conferences  and publications on the topic the central
question of whether we can change paradigms and if yes how - remains
unanswered. Today's students have a preferred mode of activity and
interaction that is frequently not in synchronization with a relatively
traditional educational system. This begs the question of what role
academics and students may have in bringing about advocated changes
to the formal spaces of education? What are the current needs and what is
truly  feasible within them with respect to both educators and the students
involved? An answer to this may lie in the in a constellation of forces that
include media labs, peer-to peer models of learning, hybrid methodologies
and a growing wealth of interdisciplinary collaborations that feature the
interstices of Art with Science & Technology.