Stage in the Spotlight and Paradoxes of the Profession Artist, Light, Theatre

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Elena A. Zaeva-Burdonskaya ◽  
Yuri V. Nazarov
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Virtual Design ◽  
Scene Design ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Training Techniques ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
Artistic Training ◽  
Multimedia Technologies

Nowadays, the lighting designer is becoming one of the leading figures in forming of the concept of theatrical scene design. Lighting technologies with great potential of illumination, colour and graphic capabilities allowed the profession to occupy the leading positions in the space of any object. Today’s orientation of the whole visual culture to staginess alongside with avant-garde inventions of stage designers in the early 20th century have formed the main artistic trends of this art. Nowadays, the modernistic findings of the past are supplemented by innovative multimedia technologies. Visual techniques worked out in stage shows have seriously affected the people’s attitude towards the stage space. They have made theatrical performance very dynamic by using lighting and media effects, sufficiently widened the scope of visual and expressive abilities of an artist. The new paradigm of light as an active tool of form-making allowed modelling the space by means of lighting technologies. Stage light has become a form possessing great emotional power inseparably associated with the dramatic composition of performance. At the same time, the goal of a lighting designer cooperating with theatre designers and costume designers should permanently lead the audience to catharsis and innovative light engineering techniques play a great role in it. Naturally, such innovations in theatre art made it necessary to correct the programmes of training of universal specialists required in this area. Professional education of a theatre lighting designer, apart from knowledge of technology and basics of scenography, requires serious artistic training. The methodological experience obtained in scenography training of future designers in the Environment Design sub-department of S.G. Stroganov MGHPA may provide an example of new design approaches to solving of comprehensive problems of scenography. Design training techniques used in the sub-department include the method of environmental approach, the method of script modelling using a virtual design model and the method of conceptual design.

scholarly journals Towards a signature pedagogy for design and technology education: a literature review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt McLain
Keyword(s):  
Technology Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Deep Structure ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Design And Technology ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Design And Technology Education ◽  
Signature Pedagogy

AbstractDrawing on the work of Lee Shulman, this article reviews literature exploring the concept of signature pedagogies, which are described as having have surface, deep and implicit structures. These structures are complex and changing; concerned with habits of head, hand and heart. Emerging from professional education and now being explored in STEM and Humanities education, they are characteristic forms of teaching and learning that are common across a sector. Common themes emerge from within a range of disciplines including art, built environment, design, music, religious, social work and teacher education. These include the roles of the curriculum, the teacher, the learning environment, as well as capability, uncertainty and the challenges associated with signature pedagogies. Focusing on literature from design education, the paper explores the nature of signature pedagogy in design and technology, as a tool for professional discourse. The conclusions propose a discursive framework for design and technology education in which the structures are tied together by the three fundamental activities of ideating, realising and critiquing; more commonly thought of as designing, making and evaluating. The deep structure being project-based learning, undergirded by the implicit values and attitudes associated with design thinking; including collaboration, creativity, empathy, iteration and problem solving. Design and technology education has something unique to offer the broad and balanced curriculum through its signature pedagogies and the way that knowledge is experienced by learners.

Choreographies of the Living

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Rohman
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Human Endeavor ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
Aesthetic Practice ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Aesthetic

Animals seem to be everywhere in contemporary literature, visual art, and performance. But though writers, artists, and performers are now engaging more and more with ideas about animals, and even with actual living animals, their aesthetic practice continues to be interpreted within a primarily human frame of reference—with art itself being understood as an exclusively human endeavor. The critical wager in this book is that the aesthetic impulse itself is profoundly trans-species. Rohman suggests that if we understand artistic and performative impulses themselves as part of our evolutionary inheritance—as that which we borrow, in some sense, from animals and the natural world—the ways we experience, theorize, and value literary, visual, and performance art fundamentally shift. Although other arguments suggest that certain modes of aesthetic expression are closely linked to animality, Rohman argues that the aesthetic is animal, showing how animality and actual animals are at the center of the aesthetic practices of crucial modernist, contemporary, and avant-garde artists. Exploring the implications of the shift from an anthropocentric to a bioaesthetic conception of art, this book turns toward animals as artistic progenitors in a range of case studies that spans print texts, visual art, dance, music, and theatrical performance. Drawing on the ideas of theorists such as Elizabeth Grosz, Jane Bennett, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Una Chaudhuri, Timothy Morton, and Cary Wolfe, Rohman articulates a deep coincidence of the human and animal elaboration of life forces in aesthetic practices.

Collaborative Virtual Design Environments: A Treatise of the Supporting Technologies

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imre Horva´th ◽  
Zolta´n Rusa´k ◽  
Joris S. M. Vergeest
Keyword(s):  
Asset Management ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
Coherent System ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Virtual Design ◽  
Design Environments ◽  
Heterogeneous Technologies ◽  
Advanced Interaction

The fourth generation of CAD/E systems appears in the form of collaborative virtual design environments (CVDEs). These distributed design support systems are based on a still developing new paradigm. Consequently, the standard architecture, functionality, and implementation of CVDEs are not fully elaborated yet. It is believed that six fundamental components are needed for a fully featured implementation: i. enhanced CAD/E kernel functionality, ii. multi-site imagining and advanced interaction, iii. high-speed communication and multi-channel networking, iv. collaboration support and virtual presence, v. knowledge asset management, and vi. interface to virtual enterprises. This paper investigates the supporting technologies with the aim to explore what is available, satisfactory, compatible, and experienced. The authors found that remarkable results have been achieved in terms of the supporting technologies, but for some CVDEs functions the technologies are not available so far. Currently the largest problem is to integrate the highly heterogeneous technologies into one coherent system. This is due partly to the inherent complexity of the problem, and partly to the uneven maturity of the technologies. It can be predicted without any hazard that dramatic changes will be witnessed soon in this front of research and development.

Decorative composition tasks for painting as a means to develop students' creative personality (direction "Design")

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 432
Author(s):  
Vladimirs Berdiševs ◽  
Nikolajs Zaharovs ◽  
Veronika Kučerovskaja
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Free Form ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Color Science ◽  
Image Objects ◽  
Creative Personality ◽  
Image Creation ◽  
Artistic Training ◽  
Academic School

The essay is dedicated to the problems of teaching painting at Design faculties of high schools and universities. The main task both in painting is to teach students to make a conscious choice of visual tools. Selection of pictorial means shall be determined by a figurative idea and shall contribute to the most expressional solution of a set problem. Approach to painting changes to become more analytical one, based on the laws of formal composition and color science. Special attention is paid to seeking for figurative solutions. In addition to educational activities students are challenged to perform their works at a high professional and artistic level and to develop their creative personality. In painting students shall create decorative compositions in the most free form provided that image objects are recognizable. Understanding of form elicitation patterns or image creation principles contributes to a more precise choice of figurative instruments and allows developing students’ creative abilities as required by the specifics of their professional education. . Purpose of the article: studies of painting teaching experience for efficiency and quality improvement, evaluation of disciplines that provide fundamental artistic training in development of designing skills and abilities of students. The method is based on the studies of General Painting Department of St. Petersburg Academy of Applied Arts named after Stieglitz as well as on the analysis of teaching methods of Russian classic academic school, in particular by N. Volkov and P. Chistyakov. Traditional methods of pedagogical studies have been used such as examination/observation, experience analysis and pedagogical experiments.

The Shattered Dream: Postwar Modernism, Urban Planning, and the Career of Walter Bunning

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 731-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Freestone
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
World War ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Planning History ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
World War 2 ◽  
The World ◽  
Biographical Approach

The vision of modern urban planning after World War 2 was a remarkably standardized project around the world. Implementation was also universally problematic, the heady reformism of 1940s reconstructionism never being comprehensively realized. Moreover, by the 1970s the early ‘heroic’ modernism had evolved into a counterrevolutionary ‘high’ modernism. Exemplifying these themes was the career of the Sydney-based architect—planner Walter Bunning (1912–1977). In this paper I provide an overview of his particular brand of modernist thought, his central planning ideas, and his physical planning work, with special reference to a disastrous redevelopment scheme near the end of his life. The nature and scope of Walter Bunning's professional life represent a virtual microcosm of the uneven course of planning in Australia in the postwar years: genesis in the avant-garde Le Corbusier-tinged modernism of the 1930s, the early priorities, the broadening agenda but ever moderating tone, the difficulties in translating heady dreams into reality, and the crises which led to the emergence of a new paradigm. I will demonstrate how a biographical approach to planning history can illuminate the origins, meanings, hopes, and outcomes of modernist planning in the urban arena.

Virtual Prototyping in Engineering Education

2013 ◽  
Vol 437 ◽  
pp. 853-856
Author(s):  
Marija Gradinscak
Keyword(s):  
Virtual World ◽  
Virtual Prototyping ◽  
Virtual Manufacturing ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Production Lines ◽  
Virtual Design ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The World ◽  
Education Needs

Many major companies are developing complete virtual factories to enable them to simulate complete manufacturing processes with the main aim to deliver high quality products but also to achieve cost improvements. The manufacturers aim to build virtual factories which will enable them to analyze and improve their production lines in any of their plants all around the world without having to go there. Education needs to go in step with this idea and prepare students for those engineering jobs. There are a number of schools and universities that are beginning to follow and have integrated virtual environment design in their curricula but there are still many school that are not. This paper outlines the attempt to integrate virtual manufacturing into virtual design curricula and enable students to interfere with this virtual world.

scholarly journals Greening of higher education in the Republic of Serbia

Envigogika ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Nikolić ◽  
Jelena Ranitović ◽  
Slobodan Milutinović
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Republic

Nowadays, Serbia is not at a satisfactory level of sustainability due to the well known events that occurred within the past two decades. According to the European Commission, environmental protection is an area in whichSerbiawill have to give its maximum effort to fully meet European standards and the requirements of sustainable development in the future. Poor water quality in some parts of the country, undeveloped systems for waste collection and recycling, illegal dumps, and industrial pollution are some  of the environmental problems affecting the Republic of Serbia. These findings encouraged the authors of the paper to focus on the environmental problems as a dimension of education for sustainable development in Serbian higher education.Regulatory frameworks of higher education and education for sustainable development in theRepublicofSerbiaare presented in the first part of the paper. The second part deals with observations on current staff development within professional education centres, where their abilities to work in the field of environmental protection are discussed. In the third part, an analysis of an autonomous and integrative approach to the environmental safety education is done, and the need and importance of greening higher education curriculum, as the new paradigm in the educational system, is emphasized.In this regard, an analysis of present ecological ideas and content in the syllabus of English language, which is one of the most common courses at Serbian faculties, and which is particularly important in response to the challenges of globalization, knowledge flow, international scientific research and mobility, is performed.Finally, as part of the authors’ concluding remarks, improvements related to the period before the reform of higher education and adoption of a national strategy for sustainable development, are presented. Also, their basic weaknesses and difficulties are described. New directions of the education for environmental protection in higher education, as well as the importance of training higher education lecturers in this area, are shown.

scholarly journals It's a Question of Scholarship

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terra Smith
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Allied Health ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Educational Benefits ◽  
Allied Health Professions ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Education Theory ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
Research Types

Scholarship is the opportunity for advanced learning. The new paradigm of scholarship, in addition to research, assimilates teaching, service, and integration scholarships. Many allied health professional organizations reward a variety of scholarly efforts with continuing professional education units (CPEUs). The Commission on Dietetic Registration implemented a new CPEU category that promotes research at the preclusion of non-research types of scholarship. One of the most important educational benefits of non-research scholarship is opportunities for professional writing that also supports the goal of life-long learning encouraged by adult education theory. Allied health professions will benefit from a discussion of the criteria used to differentiate and evaluate academic and practitioner scholarship.

scholarly journals THE MOVEMENT OF HISTORICALLY INFORMED PERFORMANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CULTURE OF THE XX–XXI CENTURY

2020 ◽  
pp. 68-71
Author(s):  
M-M. Ljubiva
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Public ◽  
Baroque Music ◽  
The Status ◽  
Historical Authenticity ◽  
Cultural Types

The hermeneutical method is the basis for performing interpretation, because the author's musical text is the initial condition for its implementation. Over the last century, new musical forms and performing practices have emerged, where there is a synthesis of the heritage of many stylistic eras. Modern trends in performance art can be divided into three global independent areas – actualization, authenticity and avant- garde. The orientation in modern performance is directed both at the historical authenticity of the performance and at the questions of the subjective potency of musical creativity. There is an affirmation of a new paradigm, which consists in increasing the role of the intellectual principle, in striving to study a musical work in the context of the epoch that created it, in clearing the traditions of performance from later layers. Due to the growing interest of musicians in Renaissance and Baroque music, the number of soloists and groups performing Western European works written before the middle of the XVIII century is increasing. Over the course of the century, there has been a change in the status of authentic performance from individual to universal and social, because it not only organizes the experience of the community of musicians, but also forms the consciousness of a whole generation of culture. Due to the fact that a person is aware of the loss of the integrity, traditional art forms undergo transformations and destruction, which caused the need to appeal to the Baroque culture. The reception of the Baroque culture promotes the restoration of cultural identity, warns against multicultural fragmentation, and creates conditions for establishing links between cultural eras. The Baroque aesthetic is becoming one of the defining markers of popular culture. Attempts to adequately reproduce musical impressions of past eras among performers and interest in them among the public is a significant characteristic of modern society. A comprehensive study of authentism as a direction allows us to understand the context and functions of music for the cultural types of that time.

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