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  1. Exploring Digital Media and Creative Practices: An Interview with Bob Sweeny

    Some time ago, I had the privilege of speaking with Professor Robert W. Sweeny about digital and art education. He shared many fascinating insights—read them below. Robert W. Sweeny In today’s rapidly evolving world, digital media continues to reshape how we learn, teach, and create. To explore these intersections, I sat down with Robert (Bob) Sweeny, a professor of art education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. With nearly two decades of experience, Bob is not only a leader in his field but also the founder of the Digital Visual Study Research Group. His latest book, Digital Visual Art Education: Making,…

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  2. Exploring the Intersection of Technology and Art Education with Ryan Patton

    Some time ago, I had the privilege of speaking with Professor Ryan Patton about digital and art education. He shared many fascinating insights—read them below. Ryan Patton Ryan Patton is an associate professor and undergraduate program director of Art Education at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). With a career spanning over two decades, Ryan has become a leading voice in exploring the dynamic intersection of technology and art education. His research and teaching delve into the evolving role of digital media, human-computer interaction, and the ethical and educational implications of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into the arts and education. In this…

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  3. AI MIXEI?!

    What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture. Lupita Nyong'o Colonialism is the cousin of slavery. Chadwick Boseman K eskustelu koneoppivista algoritmeista (esim. OpenAI:n chatGPT ja Dall-E2, Stability AI:n Stable Diffusion sekä Midjourneyn oma algoritmi) on viime aikoina porissut niin opetuksen kuin kulttuurinkin saralla ja vuoroin on pelätty ja vuoroin neuvottu miten nuo uudet algoritmit valjastetaan käyttöön. No, tässä tekstissä kehotan miettimään tätä koko soppaa ja nostan pöydälle muutaman seikan miksi meidän ehkä ei pitäisi ottaa näitä palveluita käyttöön ja pelkäämisen sijaan kohdentaa näihin toimijoihin suoraa kritiikkiä. TLDR; Ai miksei AI, no koska se on epäeettistä…

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  4. Figuring futures, enriching possibilities. - A website to think about (art) education futures

    At the end of last year, our collective published a book, or rather, a dictionary, of valuable words (or pictures, images, things) for art education (or for education in general, or just being a human being). However, we did not want our dictionary to be a terse, timid canon of the rights things to know at the moment. Instead, we were interested in creating a place that could afford new practices of thinking or seeing. So, we made our dictionary in the form of an exquisite corpse , a playful book that allows a semi-random mixing of parts of pages.…

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  5. Creative Coding at the art & craft school Robotti

    I am currently working on an article concerning creative coding at the Käsityökoulu Robotti (art&craft school Robotti). Robotti is a non-profit organization that offers teaching on art&tech for children. Creative coding could be described as a programming that is more interested in expression than function, but in Robotti it is also used as a teaching method to empower children to take control of the surrounding digital world. As such it is a critical pedagogical tool as well as an artistic medium. The article is based on the authors own ethnographic study in Robotti as well as interviews and questionnaires of…

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  6. Grasping the digital

    A Recent article (not yet published) I wrote with my brother examines some of the difficult questions raising from the increased use of digital technologies. For example, digitalization can be seen to act as an almost mythological buzzword for progress. But, what does digitalization mean? How do we live in the digital world? In our article we argue for a more embodied understanding of digital technologies is needed to participate in the discussion of the digital world; without experiental, embodied understanding, it can be difficult to comprehend what digital is and how it affects as well as appears in one's…

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