Reframing Memory and Knowledge: Artist as Producer

The Artist as Producer : Russian Constructivism

Reframing research on intuitive science knowledge

Education research has devoted significant effort to understanding the intuitive knowledge students bring to bear in reasoning about formal science. In addition to documenting the specific content of students’ conceptions in particular domains, some researchers attempt to make more general claims, both within and across domains, about the nature of intuitive knowledge. These attempts involve an...

The Entrepreneurial Artist as Marketer

The art organisation today utilise marketing concepts and practices. Much of what is actually practiced is at best an inefficient form of marketing, and at worst an inappropriate way of securing visitor numbers, making profit from merchandising and encouraging repeat visits. The art organisation exhibits similar characteristics to the small and medium sized enterprise (SME). Contemporary resear...

Artist As Researcher, Understanding The Tools

The paper begins with a response to the nature of contemporary artists relationships to how computers have permeated the fine art domain and how they affect the creative process. How should artists utilize this tool in order to fully understand and explore its potential? Using the example of a recent project I have undertaken called 'nGen', I shall discuss some aspects of how the computer tool ...

The skill and the broad knowledge: Albrecht Dürer as the epitome of the artist-intellectual.

An intellectual paradigm shift similar to the Italian Renaissance also took place in northern Europe. The Northern Renaissance loosely corresponds to the period 1380 –1580 (1, 2 ). Its early phase, before 1500, is also known as the Late Gothic. In Italy, the Renaissance was essentially a cultural rebellion against Byzantine influence, a return to the Roman past, and the rise of humanism. In the...