looking forward to democracy now as a forum for 'class'. good stuff. i'll also be attending a conference initiated by deep dish tv this spring so i'll be glad to incorporate some of that into our conversation around progressive media.

monday mornings are excellent for me... 

see you all 

k lynch

This conversation inspired the creation of the following class proposals for The Public School (for Architecture) New York—The Page + The Screen: Siting Text in the Early 21st Century and Beyond and Texts + Textures: A Writing Workshop. The conversation was archived by Kush Patel. http://a.aaaarg.org/node/8070

This conversation inspired the creation of the following class proposals for The Public School (for Architecture) New York—The Page + The Screen: Siting Text in the Early 21st Century and Beyond and Texts + Textures: A Writing Workshop. The conversation was archived by Kush Patel. http://a.aaaarg.org/node/8070

interested parties may want to check out this: http://www.good.is/post/old-school-infographics-from-the-victorian-era/

As part of the mapping class it could be interesting to invite the artists Justin Rancourt and Chuck Yatsuk (Racourt/Yatsuk) who are showing at Art In General right now.  Their project is an installation/performance with the two artists playing roles in a fantasy of a gone awry Florida real estate agent after the housing crisis.  As part of the project they researched actual and fabricated maps of Florida neighborhoods which were designed and planned during the housing boom but either never developed or have been enveloped by swamps. For example,one place is just a set of paved roads and cul-de-sacs in swampland with no homes built.  Besides the performance, their research consists of photographs, video and their digital drawings and these could be shown.  Link -

http://www.artingeneral.org/projects/487

i do not have experience using online mapping resources.  i would love to learn though and would certainly be open to a more collaborative teaching effort.

http://www.dextersinister.org/MEDIA/PDF/Enamels.pdf

copy and pasted from http://blog.katiehargrave.us/2009/04/paulo-freire-and-educational-models-as.html

On the occasion of the international biennale Manifesta 6, New York based artist and organizer Anthon Vidolke gathered what he called “An Incomplete Chronology of Experimental Art Schools”.[1] The theme of the 2006 biennale was “Notes for an Art School.” The form was a three-department post-graduate art institution that investigated the changing needs and roles of art education.[2][3] 

Though the alternative art school has garnished some attention from critics, the increasing trend for artists to create educational platforms focusing not on art education but on the broader educational spectrum has received comparably little attention. Indeed, these platforms have yet to be placed into the conversation of participatory art practices, most specifically art historian Grant Kester’s designation, Dialogical Aesthetics.