CCS1: Crafting Change Symposium Virtual Oberlin, OH, United States, May 3-24, 2021 |
Conference website | http://timara.oberlin.edu/craftingchange |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccs1 |
Abstract registration deadline | February 15, 2021 |
Submission deadline | February 15, 2021 |
Join fellow artists, educators, scholars, students and change makers in May 2021 for the Crafting Change Symposium, a fully virtual event hosted by the Center for Convergence (StudiOC) at Oberlin College and Conservatory. Crafting Change features presentations and hands-on workshops led by educators and makers working across disciplines and with students of all ages. Learn how K-12 teachers, college professors, teaching artists and other educators in STEM, the arts, and the humanities use creative and critical making to craft change in the classroom and around the globe!
Keynote presentations examine the critical contemporary issues facing educators and students today. Speakers will address crisis-informed teaching and learning, anti-racist pedagogy, the remote and hybrid maker classroom, and teaching towards a sustainable future. Symposium highlights include a Steam-O-Vation fair and poster session, an interactive Sonic Arcade, an ElectroMagical Musical Menagerie, and a Process Over Product (POP) Up virtual gallery exhibit.
The Crafting Change Symposium is presented in partnership with the Technology in Music and Related Arts Department of Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin Center for the Arts, Lorain County Community College, and is supported in part by a multi-institutional grant awarded to Oberlin and LCCC by Bringing Theory to Practice.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper, poster, and presentation categories are welcome:
- We welcome proposals from Educators for events including:
- Teacher Feature Presentations
- Our weekly teacher features and office hours showcase innovative educators and maker-centered classrooms. Each week we will release a YouTube Premiere video featuring an expert educator describing their pedagogical practice. Featured educators will host office hours during the week their presentations premiere to answer questions and foster discussion amongst symposium attendees.
- Should I apply? If you are an experienced educator with a pedagogical practice centered around creativity or handicraft in the classroom, STEAM education, critical making, or student-centered, project-based, or experiential learning, please consider submitting a proposal. K-12 teachers, university professors and teaching staff, and after school and camp educators are all eligible and encouraged to apply.
- STEAM-O-Vation Fair:
- This virtual fair and poster session showcases innovative activities, projects, curricula, and techniques that infuse classrooms with experiential, integrated, student-centered, anti-racist learning. Attendees will wander freely (in virtual space) between digital poster presentations, providing fertile opportunities for discussion and networking with educators across disciplines and institutions. Student co-presenters are welcome!
- Should I apply? If you have a creative, hands-on activity, lesson plan, or curriculum you would like to share with fellow educators across disciplines, please consider submitting a proposal. We particularly encourage proposals that incorporate models for remote, hybrid, and in-person project iterations as well as those that could foster collaboration across K-12 and higher education. K-12 teachers, university professors and teaching staff, and after school educators are all eligible and encouraged to apply.
- Teacher Feature Presentations
- We welcome proposals from sound artists, composers, and makers for events including:
- Sonic Arcade
- Join us for a playful virtual arcade of interactive sonic delights. Featured artworks invite attendees’ participation and create opportunities for collaborative composition and play.
- Should I apply? We welcome applications from all individuals including professional and amateur artists, students, gamers, and others working creatively with sound. Selected artists will also be asked to provide a brief video statement describing their work and creative process.
- Electro Musical Menageries
- The symposium will feature two evening concerts showcasing artists, inventors, improvisers and composers who will use their own bespoke hybrid technologies to create an electro-magical musical experience.
- Should I apply? Students and emerging artists will be featured alongside established creators, innovators and performers. Please consider applying if you use traditional handicraft and technologies to create your own custom interfaces for improvisation or performance. Selected artists will also be asked to provide a brief video statement describing their work and creative process.
- Sonic Arcade
- We welcome proposals from practising artists for events including:
- Emerging Artist Lunchtime Lightning Panel
- Bring a brown bag lunch and listen to a series of 5-minute lightning presentations from emerging artists, artisans, and makers using arts and crafts to investigate contemporary issues and foster change. The session will conclude with a moderated Q&A discussion.
- Should I apply? We welcome applications from all emerging artist, artisan, or maker using traditional crafts, contemporary technologies, social practice art, or other media to engage with contemporary societal issues.
- Process Over Product Gallery Exhibit
- A virtual gallery features artworks developed using diverse combinations of traditional crafts and technologies. As the name suggests, works presented in the POP Up gallery will emphasize the creative process over the final outcome: artists will share process documentation including sketches and failed prototypes in order to celebrate, honor, and illustrate the labor involved in the different stages of the creative process.
- Should I apply? All artists working across media and disciplines are encouraged to apply. Artists must be comfortable and willing to share documentation of the ideation and fabrication processes of the work they would like to feature. Selected artists will also be asked to provide a brief video statement describing their work and creative process.
- Emerging Artist Lunchtime Lightning Panel
List of Topics
- Teacher Feature and STEAM-O-Vation Fair topics may include:
- STEAM Education and Creativity in the Classroom
- Critical Making
- Crisis-Informed Teaching
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Fostering a sense-of-belonging
- Sustainability in Maker Education
- Remote and hybrid learning; remote maker education
- E-textiles, hybrid technologies, craft
- Experiential, Community-Engaged Learning
- Project-based, student-driven learning
- Other related topics are welcome
- Sonic Arcade proposals may include:
- Video performance/demo with ‘behind the hood’ look at the technology
- As above, but via a live zoom demonstration
- Web- or mobile-based application that participants can interact with from home
- As above, but with instructions/tutorials/kit materials for making your own DIY ‘controller’ / creating a DIY controller for an existing gaming platform
- Tools for live, web-based interactive musical games
- Other related project proposals are welcome
- Electro-Magical Musical Menagerie performance proposals may include:
- Intermedia performances
- New interfaces for musical expression
- Electroacoustic composition and/or performance
- Live coding
- Other related media
- Emerging Artist Lunchtime Lightning Panels may include artists whose work explores social issues and can be categorized as:
- Craftivism or Artivism
- Social Practice Art
- Hybrid Technologies including e-textiles and paper circuits
- New Media Art
- Maker Technologies
- Wearables
- Public Art
- Conceptual Art
- Performance Art
- Other related media and areas of practice
- P.O.P. Up Gallery proposals may include:
- Works created using hybrid technologies and/or materials
- Interactive media
- Wearables
- Fiber arts
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to aaresty [at] oberlin [dot] edu.