“Transforming Practices: a practice-based research approach to teaching emerging media at undergraduate level” presented by Fry and Marsh

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• ISEA2022: 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• Transforming Practices: a practice-based research approach to teaching emerging media at undergraduate level

• Christopher Fry
• Julie Marsh

• This paper suggests how a ‘research-oriented’ and ‘research-based’ approach can help undergraduate students engage creatively with new and emerging media technologies, as well as creating a critical and less disciplinary focused approach. It also proposes a way in which arts practice, and specifically practice-led research, can inform pedagogy, improving satisfaction for tutors and students alike. The authors reflect on their experience of modifying the module ‘Media Frontiers’ on a media arts undergraduate degree programme, presented as a case study. It sets out how the changes made transformed students’ means of engaging with emerging media technologies and developing new artistic insights.

Keywords:

• Research-orientated
• research-based
• teaching
• Media Practice
• emerging media

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