Kathryn Grushka

Unexpected Territories and a Post-critical Lens: Exploring the Model of Digital Artful Pedagogies for Global Learning

Kathryn Grushka – VADEA (Visual Art and Design Education), NSW, Australia

Abstract:

The performative work of images has become entangled in the visual world of appropriation increasingly presented as re-mixed memes, in the materialities of our world, including art exhibitions, gaming and web platforms that explore unexpected/rediscovered historical and cultural territories. This proliferation of re-mixed memes and images is a form of memory mediatization with strong affective meanings and the capacity to weaponize spaces of our domestic and geopolitical globalised narrative world. Social media now has a saturated and constant fluidity sending art education into these Unexpected Territories. The presentation unpacks the model Digital Artful Pedagogies for Global Learning. The pedagogical model, with the dimensions of Globalised Identity Learning, Inhabiting Entangled Global Spaces, Intermedial Digital Spaces and Explicit Artful, Visual Learning Platforms seeks to accommodate the re-territorization of existing semiotic borders and visual narrative assemblages for transdisciplinary curriculum. Visual epistemological and ontological knowing is now entangled within contemporary digital communication. Intermediality pushes analogue and digital still and moving images into the affective personal experience of every child. Art educators have a critical significant role to play in revealing the significance of art education at a time when there is current educational ambivalence to the significance of performative imaging acts and their role in driving social narratives and knowledge.