Hi Mark, mark cooley said : > Anyone know of any college new media art programs that focus on using > open source software. I'm doing some research.
At the Piet Zwart Institute (PZI), Rotterdam, the Netherlands, we have a long history of integrating FLOSS and free culture as part of our Media Design and Communication Master. http://pzwart.wdka.nl/media-design/ Practically speaking, this integration is done through prototyping sessions where free and open source software are essential, and to bring some context on such tools, there is a monthly seminar on free culture. Next to that, the "culture of sharing" is built as component of the course with the use of a public wiki for pretty much everything that relate to the curriculum and the students' projects. example: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/Networked_Media_Sampler Last but not least, PZI is the postgraduate program of the Willem de Kooning Academy. The latter will introduce next year three new minors: data design, open design and digital craft which will be built around the theme of "open source" and will propose a similar approach to the BA as the way we deal with free and open source software in the Master program. If you are interested in the topic of free culture in art and design education (not limited to formal education), you might want to join the Eighty Column list where this topic is discussed from time to time. http://multiplace.org/mailman/listinfo/eightycolumn Best, a. -- http://su.kuri.mu _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
