New Media Education in a Changing Environment of Psychological, Professional and Social Conditions
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- New Media Art Education in Central and Eastern Europe in the Last Two Decades: experiments and transition
Presentation Title:
- New Media Education in a Changing Environment of Psychological, Professional and Social Conditions
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Panel: New Media Art Education in Central and Eastern Europe in the Last Two Decades: experiments and transition
I would like to look at new media education from the point of view of psychological, professional and social problems. It has been possible to see them during last 20 years in the education environment of Estonia and I am afraid that many of them have almost been forgotten. When speaking about psychological problems, is artistic imagination influenced by the medium of expression? Is imagination renewed with new media? I mean new media in general, not only so called “new media”. New technology, new tools, new equipment? Can we say that there is a specific talent, which is connected to a specific medium and if he or she does something else, then it is not good, not as talented as this? Is talent specific to a medium or is it universal? If we call anybody talented, then his talent will appear anyway, despite technological or social conditions, or not? Professional problems. Endless questions about how qualified an artist could be using a technical medium. How skilled should he/she be in using software and computers to work as an artist and author of new media? Social problems. Interconnected parameters of social interaction are the distribution of information, recourses and reputation. There is competition in the field of production of social notion and reputation which influences perception of quality of artistic production.