January 27, 2023 I 10.00–16.00

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Mehrzwecksaal, Lehárgasse 6–8, 1060 Vienna

The global Covid-19 pandemic has not only led to new forms of online teaching and remote gatherings and lectures, but also heightened the need for creative and easy-to-use digital tools useful to art-making and art education. At the same time, the global push toward digitality in education has increased the awareness for teaching as embodied practice as well as digital injustice issues.

In light of these deep digital transformation processes, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna initiated in 2020 a two-year EU-project on Digital Didactics in Art Education, DIDAE. Led Elke Krasny, Vienna, with partner universities in Bern, Budapest, Cologne, and Rotterdam.

The Digital Didactics in Art Education conference marks the finalization of this EU-project with the launch of the DIDAE database, an open educational resource offering easily accessible digital tools and ideas for art teaching practice.

Indigenous cyberfeminist and artist Tiara Roxanne will give the keynote lecture interrogating colonial structures embedded within machine learning systems. Conference speakers include researchers and educators from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of the Arts Bern, the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, the University of Cologne, and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.

Welcome: Johan F. Hartle, Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Introduction to Digital Didactics in Art Education: Elke Krasny (Vienna)
Keynote Lecture: Tiara Roxanne (Berlin)

Lectures by:

Sophie Lingg, Helena Schmidt, Franziska Thurner (Vienna) Thomas Fogarasy, Kinga German (Budapest)

Lena Hoppenkamps, Gila Kolb (Bern)

Manuel Zahn (Cologne) Michelle Teran (Rotterdam)

There is no conference fee, attendance includes the conference lunch, snacks, coffee and tea. We kindly ask you to make your reservation until January 10th, 2023, so we can ensure a good conference organization from our side.

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-didactics-in-art-education-didae-tickets-488274872287

Contact: Claudia Lomoschitz -  c.lomoschitz@akbild.ac.at