Education research goes into the Metaverse
Title: Education research goes into the Metaverse
When: Thursday, 20 Oct 2022 3:30 PM
Speakers: Dr Kathryn Coleman, Jessica Laraine Williams, Amanda Belton
Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom
Abstract: How might we think differently with born digital and digitised data? What if we built new dataverses to help us see through data differently while reworlding data from site to cite? In this HADES session we invite you to speculate and wander within the Arts Education Imperatives project. This a/r/tographic project with/in a project took a speculative approach to re-considering creative research and sought to push the boundaries and borders that surround digital methods, post human times, and immersive practices in arts education research as a collaborative of creatives, scientists, data workers and digital placemakers.
The talk thinks through cartographies of the metaverse as assemblages, gatherings and matters of concern in relation to the Arts Education Imperatives Research project at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, and will show you what happens when education research goes into the Metaverse.
About the speakers:
Dr Kathryn Coleman is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts & Design Education at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and University of Melbourne, Petascale Campus Academic Convenor. Kate is interested in the intersection of art, digital spaces, practice, and culture and data. Kate’s research into practice includes teacher practices, creative practices, practices of identity, knowledge as practice and digital practices.
Jessica Laraine Williams is a transdisciplinary researcher, visual artist, practicing physiotherapist and PhD candidate at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne. Her research is focused on applied transdisciplinary projects that bridge art and beyond with an emphasis on digital delivery, such as virtual reality nature art towards wellbeing, and creative data visualisation in arts education.
Amanda Belton is a data scientist working with education and arts researchers to visualise research information. Amanda works with playful approaches and empathetic design principles to communicate research data into the digital realm, with a keen interest in animation and mixed reality. Her practice is built on agile, iterative data science practices, powered by computational approaches for digital humanities. Her work embodies strong belief in the power of art to communicate those truths that can change our lives.
HADES Seminar Series: Humanities in the Digital Age
From the Humanities and Diverse eResearch Scholars group (HADES), this series brings together a wide range of interdisciplinary research at the intersection of Humanities and digital scholarship. We will hear from speakers on topics ranging from digital ethics and machine learning through to architecture and literary studies, but always with a focus on the crucial role that the Humanities play in helping to explain and shape complex human experiences. The series aims to challenge and extend understandings of digital research in the Humanities and present new and emerging work by scholars working across and between disciplines.
Seminars will usually be held monthly on the third Thursday of every month at 3:30pm.
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