Midwest to Midville: repositioning the visual arts in the Midlands Monday 3 February 2014 / 1.00pm — 6.00pm 1-6pm (followed by drinks reception) – Free, booking essential Live online streaming via This is Tomorrow Midwest to Midville is a free symposium, organised by Ikon and Turning Point West Midlands, for visual artists, students and arts professionals. Looking at the past,… Read more →
Opening the doors to visible and connected learning v.2 from Jonathan Shaw I had the pleasure of being invited to Belgian at the end of November to present a workshop, at KU Leuven University, to colleagues whom are transitioning to a cross campus and multi campus mode of delivery. These are the workshop slides from that session which reflected… Read more →
New Mindsets on Photography from Jonathan Shaw These are the slides from my talk at MediaCity UK for the Redeye Network. It was a great opportunity to meet and talk face to face with a whole new community of photographers, enthusiasts and educators. I apologise for those just joining the conversation here, as I tend to use my… Read more →
An edited version of my recent talk, “The Art School: The only limit when working creatively and commercially is the limits of our imagination!” presented at the Adobe Education Summit in Barcelona, is now online at Adobe TV. You can see the full slides here. Enjoy! Read more →
Photographers and Photography Audiences Wednesday 13th November 2013, 1.30pm – 4.30pm The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Jordan Well, Coventry, CV1 5QP https://photographyandphotographyaudiences.eventbrite.com/ In this session we hear from Nicola Shipley co-director of GRAIN – the Photography hub and network for the West Midlands. Having recently conducted the largest ever survey of photographers and audiences for fine art photography, Nicola… Read more →
Art School: The only limit when working creatively and commercially is the limits of our imagination from Jonathan Shaw Enjoy! Everything was filmed so hopefully I will be able to share that soon too… Read more →
Image: Oscar Gustave Rejlander “Two Ways of Life” 1857 Coming up next month… Interested in exploring and discussing analogue/digital or ‘post-photography’ then you might find this event interesting? I will talking about some of the ideas and projects that I have had the privilege to work on over the past few years. This is the first time in a while that… Read more →
Creativity and Expressiveness, Adobe Education Summit, 13-15th October 2013, Barcelona. Jonathan is delighted to announce he will be speaking at next week’s Adobe Education Summit in Barcelona. “The Art School: The only limit when working creatively and commercially is the limits of our imagination!” The presentation advocates for increased creativity when considering our educational habits and practices. This is the… Read more →
A bric-a-brac approach to arts & media education!? from Jonathan Shaw Friday 20th September 2013 Media Education Summit, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK Abstract When faced with a broken and out of date methodology, structure and systems, how do we as academics find our purpose, value and relevance within the 21st Century classroom or perhaps a more relevant question should… Read more →
OpenMedia Classes from Jonathan Shaw Shaun Hides & Jonathan Shaw Presented at the Digital Humanities Summer School, KU Leuven, Belgium 19th September 2013 The Coventry Open Media Class project grew out of the Open Media philosophy and approach that the Department of Media at Coventry University has adopted over the last four years. It is intended to capture a… Read more →