Open Source Studio (OSS) Showcase: Process, Sharing and Social Space
Directed by Randall Packer, Associate Professor of Networked Art, School of Art, Design & Media, Nanyang Technology University
Special thanks: Vibeke Sorensen, Peer Sathikh, Kristy Kang/School of Art, Design and Media; Peter Looker/Teaching, Learning, and Pedagogy; CITS (Centre for IT Services); Vishaka Mantri/OSS Assistant Project Manager; Juan Camilo Gonzales, Hui Wen Wong/OSS Developers.
1. Brief History of Milestones
2. Introduction to Open Source Studio (OSS)
Key concepts:
- Process: an online virtual studio learning environment built as a WordPress multi-site for documenting the creative process, including assignments, research, critique, and portfolio (including Final Year Projects),
- Sharing: emulates social media, emphasizing openness through database aggregation into class sites and post feeds with comment threads
- Social Space: introduces online learning experiences that extends the social dynamics of the physical classroom and the art critique, encouraging interaction in a virtual community
- Pedagogical Research: provides an environment for faculty to collaborate and contribute to online teaching pedagogy as joint research.
3. OSS in Practice
[NOTE – To navigate the Showcase: Embedded links in course names link to the referenced site, while clicking on images expand into details.]
The Class Site
Media and Performance | Randall Packer
The Syllabus
Foundation 2D | Ina Conradi Chavez
The Student Site
The Forge | Sng Xi Xian Issa
Beverley | Beverley Ng
Charlene | Charlene Lim Jia Zhen
Rachops | Tan Rui Qi Rachel
The Final Year Project (FYP) Site
Peer M. Sathikh | Product Design
Ina Conradi Chavez | Visual Comm | FYP Report Updates
Vishaka Mantri | Synthesis for FYP Report and Project
Process Documentation (Product Design) | Muhammad Sabri
The Virtual Critique (commenting)
Internet Art and Culture | Randall Packer
Introduction to the Histories of Art II | Sujatha Arundathi Meegama
The Online Gallery
Technology Art in Fashion | Galina Mihaleva
Student Presentations | Ina Conradi Chavez
Portfolio Showcase Demo of Immersive Posts | Vishaka Mantri
The Collaborative Site
Issues in Interactive Media Global Cultures & Difference in the Media Arts | Kristy Kang
4. The Virtual Classroom
The virtual classroom environment that functions as a space for media presentation, the critique of student work, real-time conversation in a chat room, and dynamic Web links in which pages are remotely launched on student browsers. All forms of media, including images, video and sound can be integrated seamlessly into the virtual space of web-conferencing, with students and other participants.
Teaching
Web-conferencing also opens up the classroom to a much larger arena of participants, by accommodating guest artists, curators, and scholars from anywhere in the world. This ability to invite guests into the virtual classroom creates unprecedented opportunities for cross-cultural exchange, collaborative projects, and inter-institutional dialogue.
Guest Artist | Ian Aleksander Adams (from San Francisco)
Symposia
The Art of the Networked Practice | Online Symposium
Live Performance
