Based on over a decade of collective teaching, this volume explores the hybrid use of online and in-person collaboration as a means of offering international experience to university-level arts students. Chapters articulate a collective learning based on the experiences of the International Art Collaborations Network (INTAC), Collective Body group and related programs which the authors and contributors have participated in as educators and students.
Illustrated with photographs, screenshots and student projects, the book inspires reflection on teaching methodologies and student artmaking strategies across cultures and languages. Pedagogical and methodological topics trace an evolution of curricular approaches and use of evolving online platforms. Examples of themes and visual strategies demonstrate the power of student-directed collaborative learning. Diverse voices have been gathered through research conducted with educators and alumni connected to INTAC, providing perspectives on working collaboratively in a global context.
Student projects exemplify responses to the challenges of communication and creation that come with distanced artistic partnership. Chapters end with suggested points for conversation, whether between educators, students of art education or students entering collaborations. Although based on experiences in the visual arts, the ideas and methods are applicable to others engaging in inter-institutional education or online collaborative practices.
Fully illustrated with examples of collaborative art projects, photographs, screenshots, diagrams and posters.
Recenzijas
'A timely and deeply researched, thoughtfully presented, visually stunning book... While this book is primarily meant for post-secondary studio settings, it will serve many, resonating not only with those wishing to explore international collaboration, but also those who wish to re-engage the multi-cultural, -lingual, -gendered, etc., individual students in art classrooms. The voices here authors and other contributors which include fellow educators and students are impassioned; the energy is palpable and as such it invokes a much-needed re-action.
Modelling International Collaborations is authored by an equally appealing group. [ ...] The make-up of this author/co-researcher group speaks to their acknowledged regard for developing the collective capacity in/for student/faculty classroom activation and exhibition building.' -- Dr. Pam Patterson, Canadian Review of Art Education
Acknowledgements
About this Book
1. Introduction
- Circles of Engagement
- A Brief History
- Finding Possibilities
- Developing a Programme
- Reviewing the Decade
2. Why International? Why Collaboration?
- The Importance of Global Connections
- Situating the International in Art Education
- Cultural Diversity and Global Awareness
- Collaboration as a Key
- Catalyzing Change Dr. Juha Suonpää, TAMK (Finland)
Questions and Challenges (2)
3. Discovering Collaborative Practices
- Enabling Interaction
- Coming to Collaboration
- Contemporary and Historical Models: Virtual art collaborations, artistic
collectives, and exchanges across borders Giselle Mira-Diaz (INTAC)
- Collective Body 20082020 Prof. Patricia Azevedo UFMG (Brasķl) and
Prof. Clare Charnley LBU (UK)
Questions and Challenges (3)
4. Setting the Stage
- Key Ground Rules
- Preparing Students for Collaboration
- Modes of Speaking
- Facilitation: Following the student process
Questions and Challenges (4)
5. Collaborative Programme Models
- Organic Networking
- Short-Term Projects
- Intensives
- Workshop Travel
- Extending Engagements
- The INTAC Model
- Shared Events
Questions and Challenges (5)
6. Pedagogy and Educators
- A Broader Conception of Teaching
- Enabling Student Experience
- Why do faculty do it?
- Why INTAC Participants DO Activate their Cameras?: The Importance of
Collaboration in Emancipatory Education Prof. Sofķa Sienra Chaves, UAEMex
(Mexico)
- Trusting the Process Prof. Meera Margaret Singh, OCADU (Canada)
- Poetry of Transience Prof. Walter Bergmoser, UE (Germany)
Questions and Challenges (6)
7. Addressing Institutional Contexts
- Institutional Support
- Barriers
- Inter-institutional Territories
- Complex Diversity
- Working with Matched Partnerships
Questions and Challenges (7)
8. Engaging Global Themes
- Defining Thematics
- Arriving at Meaningful Projects
- Global Themes
- Lets think about the journey of bananas Phuong Hoang, RMIT (Vietnam)
/ UE (Germany)
Questions and Challenges (8)
9. Bridging Diverse Contexts
- How Different is Difference?
- Understanding Difference
- Working Across Languages
- Visual Language
- Diverse Learning Environments
- Building Bridges
- Considerations of travel
- Metaverse & INTAC: The Dilemma & Breakthrough of Chinese Students Dr.
Liu Fan, WTU (China)
- Art Over Language Prof. Silas Fong, CAU (South Korea)
Questions and Challenges (9)
10. The Dynamics of the Student Experience
- Student Voices
- Motivations
- Challenges for Collaboration
- Alumni Recommendations
- Learning Outcomes
- Alumni Interviews
- Participant Manifesto: Ground Rules for Collaborators
Questions and Challenges (10)
11. Student Collaboration in Practice
- Approaches to Collaborative Artmaking
- Experiments in a Digital World
- Collaborative Strategies
- The PhysicalVirtual Interface
12. Collective Body Projects: 200820
- Threads Between Partners
- Second on the Right and Keep on Going Prof. Patricia Azevedo, UFMG
(Brasil) and Prof. Clare Charnley, LBU (UK)
13. Face-to-Face
- The Impact of Meeting
- Exhibitions
- Workshops and Debriefing Sessions
- Social and Cultural Activities
14. Online Exhibition
- Inhabiting the Online Space
- Transitioning to Virtual Presentation
- INTAC on Kunstmatrix.com
- Animating the Virtual Exhibition Experience
15. Activating the Online Space
- A Decade of Evolving Online Options
- Meaningful Virtual Interaction
- Negotiating Online Platforms
- Selecting Workspaces
- Platform Options
- Acceptance of Online Platforms
- Ensuring Dynamic Online Spaces
- Online Activities
- Student Agency in Online Channels
- The Question of Visibility
- Its about the communication
Questions and Challenges (15)
16. Modelling the Future
- An Expanded Vision
- A Sustainable Scenario
- Expanding Collaborative Networks
Questions and Challenges (16)
Appendices
Appendix A Key Alumni Survey Data
Appendix B Chronologies
Collaboration Partners
Notes on Authors and Contributors
List of Figures
Index
Peter Sramek is a visual artist with a practice in photography and book arts and as Professor at OCAD University in Canada (now emeritus), he has worked to develop innovative curriculum in the arts over more than four decades. Since 2010, development of the International Art Collaborations network has been a key focus for his ongoing efforts to expand experiential and cross-cultural learning opportunities for students. His book, Piercing Time: Paris After Marville and Atget 18652012 is published by Intellect Books.
Giselle Mira-Diaz is an artist and art educator based in Chicago, USA. She participated in INTAC from 201517 while at OCAD University and throughout her masters research in Art Education at School of the Art Institute of Chicago (201719, MAAE). Today she is part of the INTAC team as the Archive Project Analyst, active throughout the research for this book along with being co-facilitator for the INTAC Sustainability Jams 2022 and 2023. Giselle is currently completing an MFA in Photography at Columbia College Chicago where she is the 2023 recipient of the Stuart Abelson Graduate Research Fellowship and working as an Education Assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Her main artistic and research interest is the use of audio, film and photography to document and create a living archive of oral histories from marginalized communities who have traditionally been erased through migration or displacement.
Charisse Fung is an INTAC alumna who participated in collaborative projects from 20182021 at OCAD University, joining the INTAC Archive Project Team as Project Archivist and Research Assistant, working on the development of this book and as co-facilitator for the INTAC IORE Sustainability Jam 2022. Charisse is a curator, artist, and archivist from Hong Kong (and now Canada) with a passion for meaningful connection and collaboration that manifests in projects centring on storytelling, visibility and kinship. She has worked with various arts organizations, including the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.
