How might Generative Art be a Proposition for Cross Curricular Learning in Schools

Abstract

Computing is the dominant media of our times and a cultural artifact; generative art is a subject to make art and technology relevant to young people's experiences and bring art and the Stem subjects closer together as a value proposition for Steam. Generative art promotes the value of creativity, the creative industries and smart manufacturing within education to art, design and the core science subjects. It can also address the gender gap in Stem. It makes the scientific become the organic and can be used for young people to express themselves, socially, politically and economically. Whilst there is a declining uptake in GCSE art and design, arguably being not supported by the incoming EBacc curriculum, computer science forms part of the core science subjects. Policy makers are insistent that every child learns to code, but code what? 14-17 year olds, dubbed by the media in the UK as the "Gen Z's" view learning computer science as boring, for the geeks and male dominated. Generative art is a fun and approachable way of teaching programming and fits the curriculum as an extension of existing units of enquiry.Generative art. GCSE education. UK education policy.

Inserting new concepts into a traditional arts school: The University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Romania

“…The paper presents some surprising results of a survey related to the profile of the candidates and students of our art university, together with the efforts done to insert some new concepts in our traditional arts university. Besides some particular aspects which are strictly related to the national educational system, the survey captured some worrying tendencies related to the level of understanding of our contemporary high technology and its pervasive influence, which are of great concern in many countries], not only in Romania [Carr, N, 2008;Foer, 2017, Newman, 2017.…”