Organisers: Klaus Jung, Academy of Media Arts Cologne; Steven Kapelke, Columbia College Chicago
This symposium follows the Claiming Creativity symposium, which took place in April 2010 as a collaboration between ELIA and Columbia College Chicago. Creativity: Reclaimed will link the Chicago symposium with the conference in Nantes. It will encourage ongoing discussions and will allow colleagues who did not find an opportunity to come to Chicago in April to join in Nantes in October.
From a rich array of sessions, based on papers from numerous international participants arose a number of critical questions for and from artists and arts educators — and all creative practitioners. These include:
- What obligations do artists have relative to the social needs of their communities?
- What power can artists exert in legislative matters that will not only assert the primacy of cultural production, but assure a sustained commitment to arts education?
- How can the intersections between the arts and other disciplines best be nurtured and developed?
- How has the recent emphasis on practice-based research affected the nature and quality of arts education?
- Does creativity mean the same inside and outside the arts?
- How does an artists’ self exploitive relationship to the term creativity contribute to the understanding of world?
- How can Higher Art Education fine-tune an understanding of creativity that goes beyond the application in the so called creative industries?
- How can Higher Art Education Institutions ensure that an expanded but specialised understanding of creativity is developed and gains influence on future policies in Higher Education and beyond.
- Is the term creativity still relevant for a contemporary understanding of art production?
The Claiming Creativity symposium has developed a strong online presence before, during and after the event. Keynote addresses, workshops, panel discussions and presentations from the symposium are available to all ELIA Biennial participants at www.claimingcreativity.com . We strongly encourage all Nantes participants to go to the website and view this work. We encourage to pay particular attention to the specific form of visual note taking, which was introduced to the symposium in Chicago.
