Art education in the digital age: research in technological environments

Abstract

The new digital scenario generates challenges that encourage us to reflect on the possibilities of Artistic Education in a historical moment in which we combine conventional educational moments with new online trends. Image technologies are one of our best allies as teachers. We have been incorporating them into the arts classroom for a long time. In this issue of the journal EARI we present a dossier on “Cinema and Art Education”. Both photography and the moving image have experienced an incredible technological development among as many users as we live together on the planet. Mobile technologies and new concepts for digital uses are being incorporating into all dimensions of our lives, so that we can no longer remain oblivious to this educational and artistic urgency. From the CREARI group we have been fully involved in the organization of the First International Conference of Digital Humanities and Cultural Pedagogies, to advance in the search for academic possibilities in a world where video games, television series, music videos and music trends Digital art are leading complex and tremendously attractive processes. We consider that game and adventure are a natural part of our rebellion. We cannot continue without addressing the new practices and habits of citizenship.