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We welcome those delegates who are attending the ELIA biennial symposia Creativity: Reclaimed.
This forum features the work presented at the Claiming Creativity symposium held at Columbia College Chicago on April 21-24, 2010. Claiming Creativity centered on the intersection of the arts and other disciplines, such as economics, science, and commerce in relation to an understanding of the term “creativity.” From a rich array of sessions, based on numerous papers from numerous international participants, arose a number of critical questions facing artists and arts educators—and all creative practitioners. These questions include:
• What obligations do artists have relative to the social needs of their communities?
• What power can artists exert in legislative matters that will not only assert the primacy of cultural production, but assure a sustained commitment to arts education?
• How can the intersections between the arts and other disciplines best be nurtured and developed?
• How has the recent emphasis on practice-based research affected the nature and quality of arts education?
Below you will find links to the recorded sessions as they occurred at the Claiming Creativity symposium. These sessions helped provoke and offer suggestive solutions to the aforementioned critical questions. We welcome your thoughts and research, and we do hope to see you at the ELIA biennial as we prepare again to reclaim creativity.
For any additional information, please email Claming Creativity.
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Creativity and the Economy
Can creativity save the economy? Can art save the economy? What kind of economy will we need? How do artists make a living? Will art as we know it survive? Are creative industries good for art? Is art good for the creative industries? Are artists forgotten on the list of creative industries? Does creativity solve problems? Can artists solve problems?
12 discussions
Art, Science, and Technology
What are disciplines? What is between the disciplines? What is beyond the disciplines? Is art a discipline? Can disciplines talk to each other? Is technology a medium? How active is technological interactivity? How creative is science? Will the hype for social networking tip over into a desire for much more intimacy and privacy? Who is still interested in the millions of pictures of 'my' dog with a bent ear?
11 discussions
Art and the Environment
Does creativity improve the environment? Does art endanger the environment? How often do we have to point to the problem of global warming? Will global warming change how we make art? Is creativity a game or an attitude to life? Does creativity solve problems? Can artists solve problems? Can we trust creativity? Can we trust creative people? Will art as we know it survive? Can we trust our own creativity?
7 discussions
Creativity and Research
Is art producing knowledge? How do we know? Who owns knowledge? Can art make us know? Should artists engage with research? Is researching an artistic technique? Is artistic research ethical? Is science creative? How creative should a researcher be? What will the role for art and artists be in our future societies? Will art as we know it survive?
13 discussions
Art, Culture, and Social Change
Can we change without creativity? Do we need change? Can art change lives? Can creativity create jobs? Is art political? Is creativity political? Can art provoke a critical view of the world? What will the role for art and artists be in our future societies? Should artists teach? Does creativity solve problems? Can artists solve problems?
12 discussions
Keynotes
Welcoming Keynote - Amina Dickerson; Wednesday Evening Keynote - Guillermo Gómez-Peña; Friday Afternoon Keynote - Curt L. Tofteland; Summation; Plenary Panel Discussion
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