Ideas

The ascendant human. We see ourselves as able to invent our way through any limits. Yet this dominant cultural perception has swept us to a brink of self-destruction. Should we survive current crises, without embedding integrated and systemic thinking, a calamitous repeat seems inevitable. How can the integrated thinking of creativity and the arts play a culture-shifting role? What are the creative, scientific and social toolkits that might nudge our perspectives towards a large-scale re-imag…

As a high school art teachers for the past 3 and a half decades, I have been moving more and more into both developing art curriculum that has a computer technology / media arts driven component as well as allowing my students to explore their own connections between traditional and experimental forms of artistic expression. My previous association with Ian Clothier (who is represented here at Intercreate.org), as a writer for art-themagazine.com, was somewhat instrumental in my moving in th…

In SCANZ 2006, one of the most fun things was doing the workshops. They were also an original underpinning of the ideas behind setting up SCANZ. All participants should feel free to propose and organise workshops of any kind during the residency. Possibly they could be organised through this site. I could set up a ‘workshops’ category, for people to post to. Would that be helpfu…

I would like to do a piece on Nam June Paik and the direct follow on through other artists whose workshops I have participated in—from Nam June to Tetsuo Kogawa’s mini-FM movement to Adam Hyde’s FLOSS Manuals and others.

Su I am so interested to learn of Samuel Butler having lived at a Canterbury sheep farm while writing Erewhon! Images of the sheep station would be great. (Just for an example idea!).