NEW ARTEXPRESS WEBSITE

The new and improved ARTEXPRESS website has (finally) gone live!! Go visit it is amazing:)

http://artexpress.pau.nsw.edu.au

4D New Media Resource - ARTEXPRESS, DET, COFA and Wollongong City Gallery

Here is the link to the new Art Express 4D Educational Resource: http://cofa.unsw.edu.au/newsevents/events/event_0255.html

There is also a link to the works that the resource discusses.

4D New Media Resource - ARTEXPRESS, COFA and Wollongong City Gallery

Dear all,

From the COFA website: Due to COFA's site development plans ARTEXPRESS@COFA will not be held onsite in 2009. As an alternative COFA will be developing an online "New Media" Educational Resource in conjunction with the Department of Education and Training and Wollongong City Gallery. Focused on connecting students with 4D practices, time-based artworks and contemporary video art practice the resource will document the scope of 4D works in ARTEXPRESS.

This resource will be launched on Thursday!!!

The exhibition of 4D works is being held at:

Wollongong City Gallery
2 May – 2 August 2009
Cnr Kembla & Burelli Streets
Wollongong, NSW 2500
Tel. (02) 4228 7500

INSULTING ARTICLE FROM CHRISTOPHER ALLEN

If you read The Australian on Saturday specifically Review (Feb 28-March1 2009 pgs 18-19) I am sure you will have "noticed" the article by Christopher Allen where he slams Artexpress, art teaching in NSW and the BOS curriculum.

If you haven't seen it, here is the link.

The real question that Artexpress raises is how art should be taught in schools, why it should be taught, and what should be taught.

....a lot of the work in the show, as always, reveals the lack of any general vision of the place of art in a school education. The system seems to be trapped between a fetishisation of creativity and self-expression -- in the sense that they are encouraged in kindergarten or in asylums -- and an aping of the look of contemporary art. What is missing is the teaching of what can be taught.

Think maybe it is time we "spoke out" against this kind of media bias and obviously uninformed opinion!

Letters to the editor anyone???
KP

THE TRUTH ABOUT ARTEXPRESS?

No Hugging, No Learning

A blog within a blog - here is an interesting article about Artexpress.

HSC Visual Arts students work in a structured, pressured and restrictive environment unlike anything outside High School. Despite this some of the work holds up pretty well in any context and deserves to be acknowledged, not just by proud mums, dads, Teachers and bestest buddies but by the agencies of the art world that some students aspire to. And in the process we have an opportunity to learn more about our own practice along the way.

Your thoughts???
KP ;)

INSIDE ARTEXPRESS

The 2009 Inside Artexpress website is now live!

Don't forget to check out the new initiative:

And here is the "making of" video:



Enjoy:)
KP

BREAKFAST [@ARTEXPRESS] ANYONE??

This year there have been some significant changes to the format of Artexpress.

You may have noticed that the opening is during the day, is invite only and that it primarily focuses on the artists in the show and follows the format of the D&T opening at the Powerhouse.

Also that the AGNSW has provided a special Art Teacher's Preview breakfast on Saturday 14th February 2009 from 9 - 10am.

For more info and bookings go here.

The exhibition itself also has a new home (for 2009) in the Yiribana space, which has enabled more large BOWs to be displayed in full.

There are also a plethora of online resources, including video interviews with a variety of exhibiting artists [peer2peer] and a blog for students and visitors to comment about their experiences.

So come along, meet colleagues, view the show and enjoy!

Also don't forget the Artexpress Teacher's Day on 6th March!

Info here.

KP :)