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Portrait Of The Computer Artist: Between Worlds, Mia Johnson
Portrait Of The Computer Artist: Between Worlds, Mia Johnson
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
As a result of ignorance and misconceptions about the nature of computer artwork, the computer artist is misunderstood by practitioners in fine art, art education, science, and industry. This paper enters the world of the computer artist to look at some of the factors which contribute to misperceptions. It examines social issues ranging from the design and use of hardware and software to access issues, and problems with concrete and electronic exhibition venues. It also describes communication barriers in education and the media.
Design: A Critique Of A Metaphor, Nancy R. Johnson
Design: A Critique Of A Metaphor, Nancy R. Johnson
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
Teaching art is basically a process of sharing socially derived knowledge about art with other persons. In order to communicate the cognitive configuration of art as it appears in our culture, it is necessary to use language. In art education, the visual arts are often thought of as a non-verbal symbol system for encoding experience. For this symbol system to be socially known about, however, it must be codified in language. As Hertzler has pointed out, "The key and basic symbolism of man is language. All the other symbol systems can be interpreted only be means of language?". Language is …
Technological Metaphors In The Contemporary Landscape, Ellen Kotz
Technological Metaphors In The Contemporary Landscape, Ellen Kotz
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
"First we build our buildings and then our buildings build us," Churchill once said. A Walt Whitman poem describes a similar relationship between buildings and the people who live in them: "A child went forth," and the first thing he saw he became on that day, and from that day forward. These two statements express different aspects of the metaphorical and symbolic level of form and our capacity to shape our environment according to our values, culture, and aspirations. Often our forms are pregnant with meaning that we don't understand. The buildings and environmental forms we shape in turn shape …