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This is a collection of essays on the arts, new media, popular culture, and technologies as they influence practices of curriculum development and teaching. The authors - artists, educators, scholars, and researchers with both scholarly and practical expertise - share their teaching practices and curriculum knowledge, and reflect upon challenging issues in contemporary art, popular culture, new media, and technology. Each chapter proposes pedagogical structures and curriculum resources that can be adapted to diverse school contexts and technical resources. The perspectives gathered in this book reflect ideas drawn from several disciplines, including contemporary art, histories of the arts, culture and technology, cultural studies, and media studies, as well as various approaches to the study of technologies; authors also incorporate a range of educational theories and instructional practices, mainly from the visual and performing arts. At times explicit and at others implicit, these wide-ranging conceptual influences inform the varied curriculum and teaching practices described here. Together, these essays and their companion DVD, which illustrates many of these diverse perspectives, provide a comprehensive and thoughtful look at arts-based approaches to new media.

Contents: Cathy Mullen/Janice Rahn: Introduction Cathy Mullen: Teaching Artistic « Know-How» in a Light-Based Media Course Janice Rahn: Video Sketchbook: Curriculum Theory, Assignments and Resources Karin Goble: Problem Solving: The Schooling of Software Skills Richard Lachapelle: Fading in: Strategies for Teaching Video Editing Yves Amyot: The Techno-Walker Joanna Black: Intermixing Image and Text in New Media: A Dual Focus Robert Dalton: Constructing Identities: Self-Portraits in Photography Michael J. Emme/Anna Kirova: Body/Image/Text: Fotonovela, Digital Technology and Poly-Media Narratives Moniques Richard: Body and Technological Fictions: For a Renewed Art Pedagogy through New Media Michael Emme/Don Bergland: Unfinished: Internet Aesthetics, Interactive Digital Environments and Your Art Classroom Janice Rahn: New Media Taught as Art Material: Tableau as Inquiry.