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ItemNo Preview AvailableAn artful experiment: The Child+Adult Art Response Project(InSEA, 2019)The Melbourne Graduate School of Education's (MGSE) 'Child+Adult Art Response Project' (C+AARP) involves child and adult artists visually responding to the provocation of INSIDE/OUTSIDE, with each artwork shared as a cross-generational art encounter. This iteration of the project invites middle years primary children in Victoria, Australia partnering with preservice secondary artist-teachers at MGSE, The University of Melbourne to voice personal concerns and feelings, exploring the inside self in relation to the outside world, and creatively exploring public ideas about global, national and local issues. This paper performs the intergenerational artist dialogues afforded by C+AARP, dialogues that rupture traditional notions of teacher/student-adult/child power dynamics, agency, creativity, artist relationships and knowledge transformation.
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Item‘Mixed-tape Methods’ for Data in Post-digital Times of Disease(Technology Knowledge & Society Research Network, 2021-04-08)In 2020, our teaching and research moved almost exclusively online. Zoom was a must have tool for communication. The shift online has impacted our academic, research, and teaching practices. But can the data traces generated by this shift be leveraged to understand and enhance how we work in and for education? We propose that, as knowledge makers, relational feedback loops and ‘mixed-tape methods’ can create new ways for do-ing, be-ing and know-ing from one data site to another. Doing research during a time of disruption using an iterative approach allows us to adapt the methods as our work and life circumstances changed in response to the pandemic, throughout the uncertainties of life in lockdown we collaboratively co-designed our work. The work of co-designing feedback loops in partnership highlight how the digital enables experience and engagement that generates new experiences and engagements, enabling us to establish new ways of exploring new possibilities with/in. The uncertain unknowns of a covid-normal arts sector means that co-designed arts education gives some solid ground for teachers and learners to create and navigate their future paths. We will present and perform the effects of these experiences and engagements on artists and the arts community in a pandemic and explore the affects of these experiences and engagements for education. We acknowledge that we live and work on the lands of the Wurundjeri people that hold stories across time and space. #Datacreativities is a co-lab of interdisciplinary digital research cross faculty partnership, we examine #datacreative using feedback loops.
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Item#DataCreativities: Developing a trans-disciplinary data visualization framework from Arts practice to teaching and learning during COVID19(Centre for Learning and Teaching, AUT University, 2021)Transdisciplinarity and collaboration are key capabilities that need to be fostered by authentic higher education learning environments to prepare our graduates for an unknown future (Barnett, 2012). These capabilities need to be modelled through the practice of academics, and even more so during a global pandemic such as COVID19 in response to the changing ways in which professions, and in particular the arts that have traditionally relied upon face-to-face interaction, have rapidly pivoted to online modes of interaction. In response, this project is conceived as a transdisciplinary collaboration between the University of Melbourne Faculty of Fine Arts and Music (FFAM), the Graduate School of Education (MGSE), the Centre for the Study of Higher Education (MCSHE), the Social & Cultural Imformatics Plaform (SCIP) and the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP). The #DataCreativities collaboration seeks to learn from the data created by the creative industry communities as they rapidly moved to new forms of online interaction in order to survive in a socially distanced environment (for example (Braus & Morton, 2020)). We use this to develop a new framework for data generation and visualization in the context of higher education as a form of feedback loop that can inform innovative pedagogical practice and research (Ferdig et al., 2020). The project data collection and analysis began by creating visualisations of the teaching and learning activities embodied in the universities learning management system (Canvas) to discover patterns of usage and interaction as the creative arts disciplines switched from studio-based on campus to remote online teaching and learning modes. The analysis of the data visualisations from creative and education domains formed a continuous loop of acting and reacting (Glaveanu et al., 2013) as they rapidly developed new modes of interaction in response to COVID19. In learning from these data as visual patterns, the project is focused upon identifying new modes of teaching and learning that are sustainable beyond an emergency response to COVID19. The data visualization project involves the identification of an Ecology of Resources or EoR (Luckin, 2008) that encompasses social media via a hashtag #Datacreativities (Twitter, TikTok, YouTube) open software publishing (Omeka, Figshare) and Altmetrics (Priem et al., 2010) - creating a feedback loop between the model of a COVID19 rapid pivot from face-to-face Arts community to building an online community, and traditional higher education teaching and learning and research practices and metrics (Williams & Padula, 2015). Early stages visualisations helped turn data into information. Collaborative bringing together of our experience and expertise helped turn information into knowledge. Making visualisations of data formed practice-based research (Candy, 2016) transforming abstract data into observable, malleable digital artefacts (Kallinikos,Aaltonen& Marton, 2010).The presentation will showcase some of the data visualisations produced by the #Datacreativities team and the mapping between the professional arts community and arts education practice on response to COVID19. The presentation will also outline the emergent data visualisation framework and how the ecology of resources facilitates a feedback loop back into informing teaching and learning and research.