Seminar von Mie Buhl - Änderung Vorbesprechungstermin

School Pictures – School Images: Visual culture in the educational system

Die Vorbesprechung zum Seminar von Mie Buhl findet nicht wie angekündigt am 8.4. sondern erst am Freitag, den 11.4. im Filmstudio statt.

Mie Buhl ist eingeladen vom Forschungsinstitut für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften figs für das Sommersemester 2008

Kompaktseminar am 3./4.5. und 17./18.5
Vorbesprechung 11.4., 10 Uhr, Filmstudio AR H-420

Inhalt:

Today, media and ICT have made all kinds of images accessible. Great works of art are available in countless variations. Many people attend advanced courses in order to learn how to produce pictorial art themselves. People visit art museums and attend guided tours. People become ever more interested in designing and 'styling' their homes as well as their own personality. At the same time, teaching of art in the educational system is being cut back. Pictures in schools are more than works of art, however. Pictures in schools comprise all the visual images we have access to: illustrations, the events in the classroom, the visual information on the Internet, the visual construction of the performing teacher. How can art education adapt to the increasing importance of visual images and what should arts education in schools include in the future? School images are examined from an evolutionary perspective with reference to system theory. From that perspective, schools practice visual culture and construct a specific school-reality, which has lead to the present visual complexity. By examining the positions for constructions of school pictures and school images, we find opportunities to question the conventional and for broadening understanding of the array of diversity in school images.