A graduate level course offered at NYU ITP in Spring 2018
This class is for artists and creative technologists who want to teach. A good teacher is also a great student themself. They transform their curiosity into knowledge and share their learning processes with others. One can learn to become a better teacher by staying fearless about ‘not knowing’ something, embracing radically open ideas and connecting various expertise and knowledge. Teaching can be a form of artistic and creative practice in collaboration with a diverse community. Teachers can invent new forms of learning spaces, new kinds of collaboration and new senses of community.
In this class, students will learn about applying creative processes to teaching. Students will read about the history of artists in and out of academic institutions, Black Mountain College, as well as more recent experiments. Students are expected to engage in critical discussions about the topics.
- Week 1: Learning
- Week 2: Curriculum
- Week 3: Syllabus
- Week 4: Pedagogy
- Week 5: Inclusive Learning
- Week 6: Mid-term presentation
- Week 7: Unlearning
- Week 8: Platforms
- Week 9: Museum as a school
- Week 10: Community as a school
- Week 11: Final project proposal
- Week 12: Final presentation #2
Full semester course based on a class of same title offered in Spring 2017
The class will use a dedicated Are.na channel to share related materials. The class will use a private email list to communicate.
Letter #1 12/26/2016
Letter #2 1/6/2017
Students and teacher will respect each other as equals, will speak and write kindly to each other. They will challenge each other academically and artistically.
Students will be ready in class, five minutes before the start time. Two late arrivals after 5 minutes count as an absence, two absences will result in an immediate fail. There will be no exceptions.
Students will use this GitHub repository to find the latest syllabus and reading materials as well as to submit their assignments.
Students will submit their assignment every Sunday morning by 10am. Assignments submitted after 10am will not be reviewed before the class. Students may update their assignment after initial submission and after each class.
Reading assignment for next week:
- An excerpt from Democracy and Education by John Dewey
- Black Mountain College by Anni Albers
- On the Creation of Syllabi. from Notes on Dunce Cap by Jesse Ball. page 28~31
- The Experimenters, Chance and design at Black Mountain College by Eva Díaz
January 22, 2018
Introduction of the course and the instructor's practice and Teaching philosophy. Questions about Learning.
Rotating roles:
- Teacher: Architect
- Facilitator: Builder
- Archivist: Inspector
- Student: Inhabitant
In-class exercise: Create a map that illustrates how you learn something.
Assignment: Autobiography as a learner: Write a 500 word essay to accompany the map.
How to submit your homework with a pull request.
Deadline: 1/28/2018. Sunday morning by 10am.
January 29, 2018
Lecture.2 Curriculum
What is a curriculum? Artists as educators, performance artwork as curriculum
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Joseph Beuys & Fluxus
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Judy Chicago & Feminism
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Allan Kapprow & Happening
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Institut für Raumexperimente – Berlin
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Community is a curriculum
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Body is a curriculum
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Space is a curriculum
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Street is a curriculum
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Food is a curriculum
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Art is a curriculum
Readings:
- Education for Socially Engaged Art by Pablo Helguera PDF - Chapter 2, p 9 - 25
February 5, 2017
Activity class
In class activity: School master
Assignment was to create a curriculum, for yourself as a sophomore in high school.
Each student will pair up with another student. They will introduce their curriculum (assignment)to each other. 10 minutes each.
As a presentation for the whole class, the students will present their curriculum from the perspective of a teacher (or a schoolmaster). The partner will give feedback from the perspective of a student in the school. and vice versa. it will be like role playing.
Lecture about artists in schools, public institutions, galleries, museums, biennales
- Pablog Helguera, Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011)
February 12, 2018
Lecture about pedagogy, the craft of teaching. Traditional pedagogy and critical pedagogy, alternative education.
February 26, 2018
Lecture about accessible and inclusive learning spaces, Makerspaces, community spaces, libraries. Special focus on disability and access for Deaf, blind and wheelchair users.
March 5, 2018
Students will present each for 10 minutes
and enjoy 1 week of no class. :)
March 19, 2018
Lecture 6 Lecture about combining theory and practice in art and teaching, through unlearning and plasticity.
- Unlearnign disability
- Capability and potentiality
- Judith Butler
- Martha Nussbaum
Student presentation about a lesson plan for a workshop.
March 26, 2018
- Christine Sun Kim at Whitney
- Night School, Museum as Hub
Final assignment: Edit your syllabus for a museum workshop for your partner and other participants. Rehearse your teaching for them, in person and in museum or in ITP. Create a feedback form for the participant (student) to give you feedback on your teaching.
April 2, 2018
- Open field at Walker
- Sheetal Prajapati at MoMA
- Shaun Leonardo at New Museum
- Art + Technology Lab at LACMA
- Machine Project at LACMA
- Triple Canopy at PS1
- Queens Museum Education department
Museums, Managers of consciousness
- An excerpt from COULD BE NO.2: High School Special
April 9, 2018
- Suzanne Lacy – LA & global
- Conflict Kitchen – Pittsburgh
- The concept of care - Bernard Stiegler
April 16, 2018
April 23, 2018
Student presentation on their final project: workshop.
Taeyoon Choi is an artist and educator based in New York and Seoul. His art practice involves performance, electronics, drawings, and storytelling that often leads to intervention in public spaces. Choi collaborates with fellow artists, activists, and professionals from other fields to realize socially engaged projects and alternative pedagogy. He was an artist-in-residence at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He has published books about urbanism and is currently working on a book of drawings about computation. Choi cofounded the School for Poetic Computation in 2013, where he continues to organize and teach. Recently, he's been focusing on unlearning the wall of disability and normalcy, and enhancing accessibility and diversity within art and technology. Choi serves on the board of advisors of the Processing Foundation.