Theme 1: Arts Education
Discusses teaching and learning through and about the arts. Articles publish into The International Journal of Arts Education.
- Ways of seeing, ways of knowing, ways of learning
- Teaching and Learning Arts Practices
- Multimodal literacies, multiliteracies in arts education
- Literacy and the literary: texts at school
- Arts pedagogies
- Art history: purpose and pedagogy
- Creative arts in the humanities
- Art as self-inquiry
- The work of the arts student, researcher and teacher.
Keywords: Arts Education, Performance Studies, Art History, Digital Media Education, Creative Arts, Literacies, Multimodality, Multiliteracies, Perception, Cognition, Affect, Self Inquiry, Arts Pedagogies
Theme 2: Arts Theory and History
Interrogating arts histories, theories, paradigms and frameworks for critical analysis. Articles publish into The International Journal of Arts Theory and History.
- Sense-Making: Connecting the Arts to Everyday Life
- Mimesis: perspectives on the ‘real’ and ‘representation’
- Authenticity and voice
- Continuity and change in arts histories
- Cultural theory in art history
- Naming and classifying art forms
- Defining the aesthetic
- Defining the avant-garde: the creative, the innovative, the new
- Categorizing genres
- The ethics of art and arts practice
- Arts products: aura and artifact
- The work of the critic
- Abstraction in art
- Crossing borders: anthropology, ethnography and art
- Art movements
Keywords: Art Theory, Art History, Aesthetics, Artforms, Genre, Design, Ethics, Representation, Abstraction, Minimalism, Complexity, Sense-Making, Semiotics, Semantics, Cultural Theory, Anthropology, Ethnography, Avant-Garde, Innovation, Originality, Creativity, Authority, Authenticity, Aura, Criticism
Theme 3: New Media, Technology and the Arts
Examines the use of technologies and media in the arts. Articles publish into The International Journal of New Media, Technology and the Arts.
- New Media, Internet and Digital Arts
- Moving pictures: Cinema, Film, Television, Video, Multimedia
- From passive viewer to active user: new artforms and audience interactivity
- Design Technologies
- Spatial and architectonic arts
- The art of games and gaming
- Online Cultures, Social Networks and the Arts
- Multimedia, mixed media and multimodal arts
- The creative industries in a post-industrial or knowledge society
- The nature of the ‘virtual’
- Digital media arts and education
Keywords: Arts and Technology, The Virtual, Design Technologies, Design Arts, Cinema, Film, Television, Video, Multimedia, Cyberspace Art, Digital Arts, Games
Theme 4: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
Addressing social, political, and community agendas in the arts. Articles publish into The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts.
- The Arts and Disability
- Arts Festivals and Biennales
- Arts as Activism
- Arts and identities: local, regional, national, global
- Art, Religion and Spirituality
- Museums and galleries as social institutions
- The Prison and Art
- Defining audiences: the role of the reader, viewer, listener
- The arts in popular culture and the media
- Arts Policy, the State and Law
- The Business of Art
- Human Rights, Social Justice and the Arts
- Art, Well Being and Healing
- Public Arts, Collective Memory, Cultural Heritage
- Artistic Expression, Identity and Cultural Rights
- Art and Globalization
- Diasporic, ethnic, multicultural and ‘world’ arts
- Art of nature: ecoaesthetics and the culture of sustainability
- Gender, LGBT arts and queer culture
- Art as propaganda, advertising as Art
- Arts in Tourism and Economic Development
Presentations at the conference, as well as the journals and books created in this knowledge community, are grouped around the themes listed here. Submissions are welcomed that cross more than one thematic area. Keywords are only indicative - please add your own keywords as you think necessary. The range of ideas listed in each thematic grouping and associated keywords is continually reviewed and revised by the participants in this knowledge community. Please suggest additions and changes.