ELIA is thrilled to announce the first episode of the experimental series ELIA Future Arts: Towards a Virtual University of the Arts. A Virtual Reality conference led by TU Dublin,
which takes place on 29 and 30 June using Spatial i.o..
Emerging out of the MA Art and Environment and building on the diverse range of Virtual Reality education and experimentation in TU Dublin this unique research process will connect with other European Universities around the critical questions,
creative possibilities and institutional challenges of Virtual Reality education. This enquiry will be extended throughout 2021/22 through the EU Culture Lab.
Led by TU Dublin, Towards a Virtual University of the Arts focuses on imagining ‘other’ futures for art education through virtual environments. While it is common today to talk of decolonising the past and the present, this event explores
the need to decouple advanced digital technologies from their roles in colonising the future. To decolonise the future of arts education is to put in place processes, structures and metaphors that might guide the future in alternative
directions to the ones delineated by the past/present.
Where it is widely assumed that digital technologies are innovative and that their application to education implies innovative education, this conference will challenge such assumptions by highlighting educational questions over technological
ones. To support this enquiry, we encourage teachers, students, artists, leaders, and practitioners to play an active part, experiment, discuss and explore.
Participants will need a VR headset.
ELIA Future Arts is an experimental interactive online series exploring the potential of technological developments in immersive and interactive arts education.
Brought to you by ELIA Supporting Members (HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, Zurich University of the Arts, TU Dublin, College of Arts and Tourism, and Amsterdam University of the Arts), this series of online interactive sessions will explore
the limitless possibilities of teaching and learning, play, experience, aesthetics and interactivity in the virtual space.
ELIA Future Arts invites you to experience new possibilities, co-create in a virtual environment and discover unchartered digital territories. Together we will uncover new teaching methods, create new digital spaces for collaboration,
and discuss the potential of VR and new technologies in arts education.
Is your arts institution interested in playing a crucial role in leading-edge European projects? Become an ELIA Supporting Member. Raise your institution’s international profile. Discuss how your students and faculty could get involved, with
ELIA Executive Director, Maria Hansen. Email info@elia-artschools.org for further information.
*Photo credit: Dan Guiney
