Outside of the Digital Darkroom: Scaffolded Research, Response, and Creation in the Library for New Media and Design Students
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Maggie Murphy, Associate Professor, Art & Design Librarian (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Creative inquiry is integral to artmaking. However, this very idea may be a disciplinary threshold concept1 for developing artists that see research and craft as discrete processes undertaken for different purposes rather than reciprocal, iterative, and inextricable. As a visual art librarian and a professor of new media and design, one of our shared pedagogical goals is to create opportunities for students to not only develop specific strategies and habits of mind that will help them build robust artistic research practices but also grow in their metacognitive awareness of the connections among asking, thinking, reflecting, responding, making, and doing.One foundational aspect of practice-based research that we often ask students to engage with involves finding, contemplating, reading about, making connections with, remixing, iterating upon, and/or taking inspiration from existing visuals. However, in our experience, many art students primarily turn to social media and other participatory online platforms when we prompt them to locate images for inspiration or to identify examples of “historic or contemporary artists and designers working in media or conceptual themes similar to [their] own work.”2 While these platforms have many benefits, such as helping students connect to other creators and share their work outside of traditional gallery and publishing structures, they can also greatly limit students’ serendipitous encounters with unfamiliar ideas, creators, and visuals.
Outside of the Digital Darkroom: Scaffolded Research, Response, and Creation in the Library for New Media and Design Students
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Creators in the Academic Library
- Language: English
- Date: 2023
- Keywords
- creativity, developing artists, visual art librarianship, pedagogy, student artists, higher education