Playing with Novel Technologies: Methodological Experimentations
Perils or opportunities: How innovative technologies transform research and education?
Synopsis: Focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interactions and Virtual Reality (VR), the seminar will illuminate the role of new technologies in designing and conducting experimental research and educational projects exploring a wide range of emerging methodologies.
Seminar Series: This event is part of the seminar series ‘Glocal’ Agenda in the Arts Management Research: Interrogating, Redefining and Challenging Traditional Research Canons.
This event is free and open to the public.
Woo Yen Yen
Moderator
Dr Woo Yen Yen is Program Leader in MA Arts Pedagogy and Practice at LASALLE, University of the Arts Singapore. With a passion for blending technology, creative arts, and education, she co-created the popular Dim Sum Warriors comic series and app, directed award-winning films, and wrote a stage musical that toured 25 cities in China. Holding a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, she has served as Associate Professor of Education at Long Island University in New York and Visiting Professor at Taiwan's National Central University.
Jonathan Gander
Panelist
Dr Jonathan Gander is Head of School of Creative Industries at LASALLE, University of the Arts Singapore. His expertise is on strategies for the Creative and Cultural Industries. A book on the subject is available on Amazon Routledge. Jonathan holds a degree in Politics (Sheffield), an MBA (Westminster), and a PhD (King’s College, London). His research explores the strategies and business model innovations in the creative economy, particularly those aimed at developing sustainable production and consumption cycles. An experienced academic, he also provides strategizing workshops and keynotes for business leaders in the UK, Austria and Russia. Jonathan has held visiting professorships at Universities in Germany, Russia, Spain and China and worked at a number of Universities in the UK including University of the Arts, London, University of East Anglia and Kingston University. He is currently Head of School of Creative Industries at LASALLE, University of the Arts Singapore.
Metamorphosis in the Metaverse: a study of creative identity of arts students
The jumping off point for this research is a concern that approaches and attitudes to the use of emerging edutech in Arts Higher Education are as replacements for, or enhancements of, existing modes of teaching and learning. We are curious whether new technological modes can be used to discover new modes for and new qualities of teaching and learning in AHE. We report on a classroom experiment with VR and creative identity.
Natalia Grincheva
Panelist
Dr Natalia Grincheva is a Programme Leader in Arts Management at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Digital Studio at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on innovative forms and global trends in contemporary museology, digital diplomacy and international cultural relations. She received many prestigious international academic awards, including Fulbright (2007–2009), Quebec Fund (2011–2013), Australian Endeavour (2012–2013) and SOROS research grant (2013–2014). In 2020 she was awarded Oxford Fellowship for her visiting research residency at the Digital Diplomacy Research Center at the University of Oxford. Apart from her most recent co-authored book, Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge University Press: 2024), Dr Grincheva’s publication portfolio includes two monographs: Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age (Routledge: 2020) and Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy (Routledge: 2019).
Measuring Global Impacts of Hallyu
The presentation will share some preliminary results from the data-driven research project developed to explore, geo-visualize and measure soft power impacts of the Korean Wave or Hallyu, that refers to the massive international spread of South Korean popular culture, including music, television dramas, films, and fashion across borders. This project draws on the most research developments of developing a Data To Power geovisualization application, a dynamic mapping software that allows to measure, map and predict soft power impacts on the global scale. The project is the first of its kind to aggregate, put on the timeline and map massive data sets pertaining to media and social viewership and analytics as well as consumer trends related to Korean cultural exports in each country around the world in correlation with tourist arrivals and spending patterns, combined with social demographics from each country. The project aims to reveal fascinating patterns of the Korean Wave expansion in the past decade as well as highlights “grey areas” or “black holes” of knowledge gaps, allowing to pose further research questions to better understand the global phenomenon of Hallyu.
Rosslyn Prosser
Panelist
Dr Rosslyn Prosser is Programme Leader in Masters of Creative Writing at LASALLE, University of the Arts Singapore, and is CI on an Australian Research Council funded Linkage project with the History Trust and Migration Museum of South Australia, University of Adelaide and RMIT entitled LGBT Migrations: Life Story Narratives in the South Australian GLAM Sector. With co-author Rob Cover, she has a monograph on Memory and Storytelling due for publication with Routledge, 2024.
What’s the point of writing?
The writer’s strike in Los Angeles has been running since 2 nd May 2023. Among the many demands from the more than 10,000 union members, is for a line of credit. Livelihoods and salaries are at the heart of the strike, with the developments around AI as only one of many issues. Writer’s strikes are not a new thing, however this strike signals a number of evolving communications and technological developments, including streaming that impact on the future of writing as work that is paid for. This presentation will discuss the nature of writing as work and what measures might be taken to secure conditions that allow writers to survive.
Andreas Schlegel
Panelist
Andreas Schlegel is Senior Lecturer in Design Communication at LASALLE, University of the Arts Singapore. He works across disciplines and creates objects, tools, and interfaces where art, design and technology meet in a curious way. Many of his works are collaborative and have been presented on screen, in code, as installation, workshop or performance. His practice focuses on contemporary and open-source technologies, where outcomes are informed by computation, interaction, networks and generative processes. His individual and collaborative works are diverse in nature and presentation and have been traveling locally and internationally to contemporary art spaces and museums. His early passion for code has translated into generative and installation art projects, and contributions to the processing community since the early 2000s.
Not instantly readable
With novelty comes curiosity and uncertainty in equal measure; through play, one explores the cryptic layers that often manifest themselves in code, interfaces, or tools that are at first alien to one. In this presentation, I will give an example of the back and forth between disappointment and discovery through the lens of making.