Education at the Arts Centre presents Indoor Laneway – an online collaborative arts project between Victorian regional and metropolitan secondary school students.
It is so wonderful to see these young students bouncing ideas around. They are so creative and innovative and I am loving the vitality that surrounds the project. There is a lot of dialogue going on about the actual exhibition space and how we might use it to display the very large, diverse and amazing art mountain that has developed from the Indoor Laneway Project.
Marie Salinger, Art Teacher at Whitefriars College, Indoor Laneway Participant 2009
Indoor Laneway is finished for 2009 but will run in term three 2010.
To register your school’s media/art class, contact dan.west@theartscentre.com.au
Browse through the Indoor Laneway archives to view work from the 2009 project. Simply go to the dropdown menu in the above title bar.
Here are some details of the processes we used for Indoor Laneweay 2009
Under the mentorship of an established media artist and school based digital media educators, participants remixed and re-contextualised each others work and collectively assembled sound and images to explore artistic practice that focused on key concepts of:
- Self
- Home
- Global and Local Positioning
- Connection
- Exchange
Artistically interpreting the concepts of:
· Pass The Parcel in reverse : the middle is the core idea gradually wrapped and re-wrapped by members of the Indoor Laneway online community; and
· The Exquisite Corpse : a Surrealist method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled.
The Indoor Laneway project promotes a socially inclusive society where people feel valued and their differences are respected.
The development of ICT:
Traditional boundaries of producer and consumer have been blurred and digital communication technologies offer new possibilities for shaping identities and new ways of constructing community.The impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s) on young peoples social relations includes the development of literacy and semiotics (the theory and study of signs and symbols, especially those with social relevance). They also provide a medium through which dispossessed or marginalised young people can create a sense of belonging and identity – drawing on and appropriating cultural representations such as text, images and music.
Outcomes from participation in the Indoor Laneway project include:
· Using digital art creation to provide an outlet for non-verbal communication and expression of self;
· Tackle issues of isolation and disconnectedness experienced by youth in city and regional areas;
· Encourage within participants a community of collaborative creation and a sense of unity working towards a common artistic outcome;
· Development of a timeline for the project that includes exhibition to give the project direction and a sense of conclusion;
· Promote the development of an artistic process in individuals that lasts beyond the confines of the project timeline; and
· Embrace the use of the internet as a teaching tool using video chat, forums and a blog for the upload and download of work for development.
The Development Period
The period for development of work is term three, 2010. The level of time commitment for the project will be collectively discussed by regional school based digital media educators, media artists and the Youth and Education Music Coordinator In 2009, students and teachers utilised a portion of their class time each week throughout term 3 to complete tasks set by Indoor Laneway media artist Eugenia Lim.
The Exhibition
Over two weeks in September, the Indoor Laneway will establish a virtual space in the Arts Centre’s BlackBox where work generated will be displayed, results disseminated in a public forum and location based performances will take place.
For more information, contact dan.west@theartscentre.com.au
