PROCESS ARTS project at UAL
Chris Follows (University of the Arts London) Process Arts was developed with an aim to create a new collaborative online resource that explores process in art practice. Users can learn, discuss and share knowledge about making online across colleges and can contribute by uploading text, image, video and audio documentation, providing unique collaborations and insights into contemporary professional and educational studio art practice. - http://process.arts.ac.uk/
Ongoing research into Process Arts – Exploring Process in Arts Practice - http://process.arts.ac.uk/
The two key aspects of developing Process Arts are:
1. Environment: Create a simple, user-friendly and accessible media driven site with good multi media functionality.
2. Content: Explore different methods of documenting and communicating arts practice online and assess how much support, advice and guidance is required to facilitate and encourage development?
Process Arts a new collaborative online studio community exploring Process in Arts Practice
How can professional and educational studio art practices be documented and shared online? What are the advantages and disadvantages of showing the art studio process and viewing the processes of others?
It is common practice for students, teachers and artists to document their practice through exploring and questioning the process, for example in sketchbooks or through samples and experimentation. Those that do, have few options for presenting this documentation to others. How do students, teachers and artists approach, view and use such forms of documentation?
Process Arts is a new collaborative online resource showing user driven video, image and text documentation of the many hidden traditional and contemporary creative processes practiced daily throughout UAL. The website provides a dynamic user driven online studio community that focuses on making at all levels in art and design at UAL, stimulating discussion, interest and collaboration, whilst also sharing, informing and engaging with the wider online community.
Although Process Arts is an open resource, only staff and students at UAL will be able to upload content direct. Process Arts is due to go live early 2010
Feedback has been extremely positive.
Students viewing the site have been eager to engage, several students have commented ‘they wish they had a website like this, years ago’.
Staff have commented on how much they like the idea of students and staff uploading content together, and believe ‘its the right time for a project like this’ and ‘Process Arts can be the conduit for creative exchange, encouraging communication while supporting learning across all disciplines and media.’
External visitors viewing content via our You Tube channel have commented on, how useful, helpful and inspiring the content is.
Process Arts on:
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/ProcessArts
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=100000683560079