Abstract

The field of art education has not looked closely at the dynamics of failure with regard to digital technologies, beyond describing ways to avoid technical glitches so that the smooth space of education is not disturbed. The notion of the machinic assemblage as theorized by Deleuze and Guattari offers art educators a diagram for failure that displaces utopian narratives. The machinic assemblage has the potential to disrupt the narrative of efficiency central to modernist ways of teaching, thinking, and being; a study of technological failure as approached by new media artists would reveal the possibilities for productive, even radical applications of the digital, while at the same time potentially identifying the limits of applicability.

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