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<div><font face="Optima" size="-1" color="#000000">From Paul
Thomas:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Optima" size="-1" color="#000000">Dear Friends<br>
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.<br>
Paul Thomas LEAF International Affiliate<br>
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Sponsored by the National Institute for Experimental Arts
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<div><font face="Optima" color="#000000">The Leonardo Education and
Art Forum: Transdisciplinary Visual Arts, Science & Technology
Renewal Post-New Media Assimilation.<br>
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</font><font face="Georgia" size="-3" color="#000000"><b>Dates:</b>
Saturday, 17 September, 2011 - 13:00 - 16:00<br>
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</font><font face="Arial" size="-3" color="#141414">Location:<br>
</font><font face="Arial" size="-3" color="#000099"><u>Sabanci Center,
Levent<br>
Sabancž Center, Room B<br>
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MODERATOR: Associate Professor Paul Thomas<br>
College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales<br>
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WORKSHOP LEADERS: <br>
Focus Group 1. Discuss transdisciplinary collaborations: Petra
Gemeinboeck & Andres Burbano<br>
Focus Group 2. Discuss transdisciplinary studio practice: Ross Harley
and Ionat Zurr<br>
Focus Group 3. Discuss transdisciplinary theory: Edward Colless and
Wendy Coones</font></div>
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ABSTRACT:<br>
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.<br>
This workshop will address and share experiences and difficulties
encountered while developing transdisciplinary art-science research,
teaching, and when meshing curricula from diverse fields. <br>
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.<br>
WORKSHOP<br>
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. </font></div>
<div><font face="Optima" size="-1" color="#000000">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.<br>
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.</font></div>
<div><font face="Optima" size="-1" color="#000000">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.<br>
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</font><font face="Optima" size="-1" color="#262626">Further
information contact Mazena Topka</font><font face="Optima" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><u> marzena.topka@westnet.com.au</u></font><br>
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