Organiser: Anna Daucikova, Academy of Fine Art and Design, Bratislava
Art education is subject to ongoing changes. Film Studies, Performing Art as well as Fine Art are operating far beyond the borders of one or two single disciplines, and the teaching programmes throughout ELIA member schools are interdisciplinary and remarkably diverse.
In the last decades the borderlines between the language of film and other time based media (video, multimedia, digital media) became softened and indistinct. Visual arts have had extensive benefit from this blending of disciplines. Film and cinematography on the other hand expanded into a leading cultural industry and enjoy exciting times in global production as well as in number of small "national" cinematographies. The latest "documentary turn" in arts found a fertile ground in both cinematic production and video art within galleries and museums. By this, the space of research aimed at artistic solutions positioned within actual socio-political processes, cultural practices and new areas of human experience has significantly expanded.
Using the these issues as a point of departure we would like to look at the practice of art education as an area of interdisciplinary attitudes subjected to continuous changes and open to a present day processes, as well as perhaps too quickly forgotten perspectives e.g. diversity studies, feminist and gender studies, queer vision, etc.
In your proposal we would like to encourage you to focus on following questions:
- How the art schools and the respective programs should react to this development;
- What new approaches and examples of good practice can be presented to trigger the discussion on actual challenges in the field;
- How building new programs and methodologies open new areas and themes which still need more visibility and attention;
- How the professional profiles of graduate (visual and media artist / filmmaker / performer) have changed and what new strategies in education are to be suggested to meet new demands.
