Curriculum Revolution: The Infusion and Diffusion of New Media

The authors raise questions and present options about how art education must change to more effectively help students meet the challenges of life with and beyond the computer screen. The thesis is simple: in the age of electronic media, artists need much more than training in the technologies of the “image world” in which we live. Students must become media philosophers, trained to reflect on the characters of electronic and other media and educated in the philosophical disciplines of epistemology, ontology and axiology. The article is organized around specific conceptual questions and discusses five proposed courses to aid students in addressing complicated questions raised by electronic media.