Why Combining Interactive Installations With Social Justice Art is an Effective Way to Engage Viewers and Make Space for Student Voice and Learning
| dc.contributor.author | Loszchuk, Crystal | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Emme, Michael | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-21T23:40:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-08-21T23:40:21Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2020 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-08-21 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Curriculum and Instruction | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Education M.Ed. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Interactive installation art coupled with social justice art and messaging can tell the stories of marginalized populations in cultures in a way that engages the viewers and participants minds, emotions, and bodies. Interactivity aids in memory and demonstrates an embodied movement toward change, while installation immerses the participant in an emotional and physical context devised by the artist. The creators of this art can also benefit from having agency over their stories and control over the way their narratives are being presented to others. Each viewer/participant brings their own experiences to the art, but may have their perspectives challenged through the process of engagement with the work. In education this type of art can be used to promote critical thinking and cross-curricular learning for students, by creating opportunities for students to research social issues that affect them, and subsequently create visual projects about those issues through investigating art mediums and messaging. Through preparation for installation students can explore new locations for artworks to be presented, beyond schools and connecting to larger communities. Teaching social justice art and creating artworks like these must be tempered with an understanding of power and privilege, of accessibility to and ownership of art, and of the need to question the long-term effect of such work for the participants and the creators. | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12010 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | installation | |
| dc.subject | interactive | |
| dc.subject | student voice | |
| dc.subject | social justice art | |
| dc.subject | activist art | |
| dc.title | Why Combining Interactive Installations With Social Justice Art is an Effective Way to Engage Viewers and Make Space for Student Voice and Learning | en_US |
| dc.type | project | en_US |