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THE PLANETARY COLLEGIUM: Towards the radical reconstruction of art educationby Roy Ascott, Special Project Guest EditorI want to propose the creation of a Planetary Collegium: non-hierarchical, non-linear, and intrinsically interactive; a gathering together, a connecting, an integrationcof people and ideas. Combining cognition and connectivity, what better creative learning organism could serve our unfolding telematic culture? But by definition such an organism cannot be planned and implemented top down. In fact it is already emerging, bottom-up from the infinity of interactions within the net. The Planetary Collegium is a paradigm of the 21st century "Interversity" [1]. The Planetary Collegium was first presented in a paper given at the 5th
International Symposium on Electronic Art in Helsinki. Leonardo has sought
to extend the discussion that it engendered by calling for papers which
would address in some depth the issues raised. This invitation calls upon
the experience and imagination of artists, theorists and teachers to
propose new approaches to education and to formulate conditions in which
creativity in art allied to science and technology might thrive.
While education will always be concerned with providing students with tools to create coherence world views of the present, often drawing on beneficial practices from the past, it now becomes important to help these students to reach into the future, not only in anticipating radical change but by giving enrichment to its realisation. Reference 1. R. Ascott, "The Planetary Collegium: art and education in the post-biological era," Artlink (Sydney) 16, Nos. 2 & 3 (1996) pp.51-54. Uploaded January 1998 |