Category Archives: Collaboration

Posts about copyright and intellectual property (though not patents).

Talk Session Proposal: Teaching Art Online

I would like to come to THATCamp because I would like to understand the issues surrounding “Teaching Art Online.”

My friends and I would like to have a safe space where we can address the broad context of online instructions at the City University of New York (CUNY) and how my/our own classroom intersects with this history. I intend to share perspectives on the teaching of art and art history online and various pedagogical approaches by introducing new online platforms. For example, how does the shift from face-to-face to hybrid formats inspire students to explore museums in other countries and provide them with new insights into their own cultures? Investigating an expanded continuum to many and varied important cultural moments on the landscape of time and space provides students and teachers with greater body of information about art and the making of art. This approach lends itself to challenging our definition about what art is. Since students today are emotionally connected to their mobile devices, bringing them to virtual space seems necessary to have them develop a relationship with an art object.

MAKE Session Proposal: Digital Humanities Best Practices

The start of a digital humanities project comes with many considerations, but what you might not think about are the legal complications that could arise later. In this session, we’ll work together to build a best practices document to serve as a guideline for scholars engaging in collaborative digital humanities work. Ideally, the document will ensure that deadlines, deliverables, and funds are clearly communicated, and that contract terms are transparent and mutually-acceptable. It will also address questions like: Who owns which aspects of the project? What kind of contract should be used, and what are the legal ramifications of collaborative work? With your help, we’ll make a document that solves problems.

Talk Session: Experiments in re-contextualizing our culture

I’d like to propose an informal discussion having to do with a few of the projects I have been working on for the last couple of years surrounding the re-contextualization of cultural heritage artifacts. These are usually small experiments, but have grown to be “projects.”

1) Curatorial Poetry is a stream of decontextualized “descriptive” texts pulled from museum collection meta-data. These snippets of information, separated from their full object records and image representations, provide the possibility of a different entry point to the object.

2) Curatorial Poetry Derivatives — Encoded Catalog & Robot Readable Design Museum – These “iterations” continue the conversation around re-contextualizing information, with the hopes of creating a new understanding through the use of new audiences and entry-points into a knowledge-base.

3) Object Phone – Object Phone was an attempt to give our objects “voices.” The end result is a phone number that you can call or text to receive information about any object in our collection. It opens up the concept up an audio-tour, raises questions about accessibility and most importantly gives our objects their own voice!

4) Moment’s Notice – Moment’s Notice is an “experiment in correspondence.” This is a personal project of mine that I have just started. In a nutshell, people sign up, I send them a roll of 35mm film, they return it, I process it and scan it and make a permanent archive website. This project is about correspondence. It’s also about the dying art of analog photography. It’s about the avalanche of imagery posted to the internet every single second of our lives. It’s about slowing your brain down, and it’s about breathing. I’m curious about selection, and curation, and building a long lasting archive of images that communicate something cerebral–something that lives outside the current framework.

In the discussion, I would like to present these projects ( quickly ) and then discuss how and why I can to do them. I’d like to talk about how we as artists and sometimes employees are motivated to explore concepts like these, and how we can carve out time in our busy lives to make them come to life. I’d like to talk about how technology plays a role but is not necessarily the centerpiece of the conversation.

-micah

Talk Session Proposal – Digital Humanities & Digital Art – Artists, Humanists, Boundary Crossing, and Educational Practice

Co-Organized by Ann Pegelow Kaplan

As discussions of digital humanities grow, along with interdisciplinary teaching practices in digital fabrication and critical making, how do these intersect with digital art the creative use of digital tools? Universities and colleges are increasingly instituting maker spaces, installing software, and buying studio tools such as 3D Printers. What is the relationship of these tools and spaces to studio art departments? How do we enable better collaboration between those with design and fabrication training and those who are exploring new frontiers in their fields? This session will both explore the practical logistics of maker tools and spaces – and consider the role of digital arts within digital humanities. Co-organizers plan to create a session publication with participants focusing on the overarching issues, disciplinary intersections, and the pragmatics of digital humanities and digital arts.

(This is a modified version of the original proposal)

 

Talk Session Proposal

I’m interested in leading a group conversation to discuss the current Guidelines for Faculty Teaching New-Media Arts that is published by CAA, and can be found here: http://www.collegeart.org/guidelines/newmedia07; the context for this discussion is that I am a current member of CAA’s Professional Practice Committee (PPC) and leading a team of 8 (including myself) on a two-year process to redevelop the existing guidelines.

In year one (Feb. 2013-14) – we are surveying the field, interviewing a number of stakeholders, and additionally, we would like to hold a forum / discussion at CAA to gain further input and raise awareness. In year two (Feb 2014-15) – the team of 8 will expand to 12~14 and the analysis, distillation, and writing process will commence.  It is our hope to submit updated guidelines for ratification at the May 2016 CAA board meeting.  Thus far, we remain on schedule.

Its incredibly important to hear from individuals working at all ends of the spectrum, at all levels of academic rank and administration, from professionals whose research is within, intersecting with, and adjacent to the field.

-Paul Catanese