About
Transcultural Dialogues
PURPOSE: The focus of this project concerns
transcultural dialogues about contemporary visual culture in U.S. and Ugandan
contexts to erode assumptions, ignorance, and misunderstandings.
ASSIGNMENT:
1.
Set
up Diigo so that you can bookmark, annotate, and add notes on
websites.
2.
Bookmark
websites
with Diigo
and save to "Uganda-USA"
group. Indicating "Uganda-USA" as the group will feed it into the group's
webpage. Select
websites that you perceive represent the visual culture of Uganda and
the
United States.
3.
Comment
on a Diigo
sticky
note why you selected the particular representations that you
bookmarked.
4.
Look
at what
is bookmarked regarding your own country.
5.
Read
the
rationales for the selected representations, and comment in
response on the same sticky note regarding if and how the representation
relates to your life.
6.
This
content of website selections and commentary is the source for
collaborative
artworks. In the future we can use Dabbleboard. This is a free online
program we'll use
in combination with non-digital art making process. Painting, sculpture,
and
other digitally photographed or scanned artworks can be uploaded in Dabbleboard. However, due to the low Broadband available in Uganda, we will need to use email attachment with "reply to all" in the group to develop the artwork.
7.
Collaboratively
work together on an artwork beginning by sending via email individual artwork
that each in the group contributes to the collaborative artwork.
8.
Upload
the collaboratively created artworks into VoiceThread.
9.
Discuss
the artworks by recording using VoiceThread. Particularly
respond
to these two questions:
·
How
is subjectivity constructed in the image, and whose subjectivity is
constructed?
·
What
prior knowledge is assumed?
WEB 2.0 MEDIA: Diigo, Dabbleboard, and VoiceThread are computer programs that are freely accessed without purchase. Click on the directions linked here ---> Diigo, Dabbleboard, and VoiceThread
RESEARCH: For
those who are interested and willing to participate in this critical action
research project facilitated by Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd please sign the consent
form linked here indicating your willingness to be a part of this research, and
provide the signed form to Dr.
Keifer-Boyd. The research involves collaboratively building online
architectures for participation for transcultural critical dialogue about
visual culture. The focus of the dialogue involves questions of cultural
identity, recognition of local and global injustices, and creation of art. You
must be 18 years of age or older to take part in this research study.
INTEGRATION: Transcultural critical dialogue about visual culture will be part of the A ED 322 Visual Culture & Educational Technologies course taught each semester, and A ED 813: Contemporary Art and Public Pedagogy, a three-credit online course for art teachers in their K-12 teaching sites, which will be a required course in the M.P.S. in Art Education program. The A ED 813 course concerns "inquiry into the public pedagogy of contemporary art and other forms of visual culture for relevancy to museum and K-12 art education contexts." The course will be offered every other spring beginning in 2011.
SHARING:
·
EXHIBITION: I will develop an exhibition to open at the beginning of the fall 2010 semester about what
I learned, did, and planned at Makerere University for art education students
and faculty to view in the Penn State Arts Cottage first floor exhibition area.
·
PARTICIPATORY WEB: I will also document and
disseminate the results of the action research project in a way that enables
participation from Penn State and Makerere students to contribute to it using VoiceThread for audio-recordings, blogs
for visual and textual commentary, Second
Life and screen recording free applications for movies (i.e., machinimas)
accessible with YouTube, and Diigo for shared bookmarking and
annotations.
· MULTIMEDIA ESSAY: I also plan to develop a visual multimedia essay with an artist or educator at Makerere University related to Ugandan visual culture from a social theory perspective to submit for possible publication to the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, which in its 30th year of publication in 2010 changes to an online journal.
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Ph.D.
Professor, Art Education & Affiliate Professor, Women's Studies
School of Visual Arts, 210 Arts Cottage
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802-2905
Phone: 814.863.7312 Fax: 814.863.8664
Email: kk-b@psu.edu Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/ktk2