This is a collection of essays on the arts new media popular culture and technologies as
they influence practices of curriculum development and teaching. The authors - artists
educators scholars and researchers with both scholarly and practical expertise - share their
teaching practices and curriculum knowledge and reflect upon challenging issues in
contemporary art popular culture new media and technology. Each chapter proposes pedagogical
structures and curriculum resources that can be adapted to diverse school contexts and
technical resources. The perspectives gathered in this book reflect ideas drawn from several
disciplines including contemporary art histories of the arts culture and technology
cultural studies and media studies as well as various approaches to the study of technologies
authors also incorporate a range of educational theories and instructional practices mainly
from the visual and performing arts. At times explicit and at others implicit these
wide-ranging conceptual influences inform the varied curriculum and teaching practices
described here. Together these essays and their companion DVD which illustrates many of these
diverse perspectives provide a comprehensive and thoughtful look at arts-based approaches to
new media.
