New school vs old school, new opportunities for the creative disciplines

Peploe, GA

Abstract

Digital media is mainstream in contemporary culture. Within creative education (like its predecessors, the traditional high arts of the academy), it risks becoming siloed.

The creative culture of the studio can be instrumental in addressing this. It is the space for engagement with ideas, materials, processes, and for open-ended creative speculation: think, make, discuss, collaborate, and play.

It is important to recognise the continuum of media-based creativity: creative practice using ‘media’ predates digital, electronic and even mechanical processes. This can be reflected through a widened scope of ‘media’, which encompasses the range of analogue and digital.

The School of Arts & Media recognises the value of and fosters cross-disciplinary approaches, welcoming creative input and methods from diverse disciplines, opening up the realm of media for exchange, and, through breaking down the silo mentality, creating the possibility for new forms of expression and new types of knowledge, exchange and industry.

Citation

Peploe, G. New school vs old school, new opportunities for the creative disciplines. Presented at 2013 Sino-UK Higher Education Cooperation in New Media Industry, Shenzhen, Wuhan & Shanghai

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: 2013 Sino-UK Higher Education Cooperation in New Media Industry
• Conference Location: Shenzhen, Wuhan & Shanghai
• End Date: Dec 9, 2013
• Deposit Date: Jun 30, 2014
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference; Projects : 2013 Sino-UK Higher Education Cooperation in New Media Industry