Here’s a quote from a new book about about art education, filed under recommended reading. It’s a problem, clearly stated, about where to focus.
Established Media versus Emerging Research
If one defines an artist’s role as innovator and anticipator, then the curriculum must reach out beyond today’s new media. Indeed, in our kind of culture every area of scientific and technological research is a potential focus for the arts. This approach poses major challenges. How does one decide which emerging fields are worth investigating? How does one prepare to teach in such rapidly developing fields? How does one reconcile the need to teach students mastery of contemporary media while also preparing for more imminent futures?
Steven Wilson, “Beyond the Digital: Preparing Artists to Work at the Frontiers of Technoculture” in Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2008), 36.
