12 – 14 June 2014, Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2ND, United Kingdom The National Photography Symposium explores the most critical and talked-about subjects for photography and photographers. Top experts, thinkers and commentators offer the most interesting perspectives on what’s happening now and next in photography, as it affects anyone working in the medium. This year’s… Read more →
NEWFOTOSCAPES from Jonathan Shaw Read more →
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 →
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 →
Reimagining the Art College in the 21st Century from Jonathan Shaw Read more →
New mindsets for photographers in a digital era from Jonathan Shaw Read more →
Teachers’ Academy, ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts), Utretcht and Amsterdam, 24-26th June 2013. Jonathan will be presenting at the Teachers’ Academy over in the Netherlands next week. This session will be a continuation of his collaboration with John Casey, Open Education Project Manager at University of the Arts London. Reimagining the Art College in the 21st century John… Read more →
Jonathan is delighted to have been invited to present at Video Vortex #9, Lüneburg. He will be talking about his research into open education [Video and Open Source (M)OOCs] with a particular focus on ideas of hybridity and exploratory practices within higher education. Video Vortex is an international conference series addressing online video for its 9th edition we ask how do… Read more →
Jonathan will be joining his colleagues Shaun Hides, Pete Woodbridge and Matt Johnston to speak about their Open Media work at the Open Education Conference in Vancouver later this month. Jonathan will be talking about ‘Open Media: the Future’ where he will be linking together our recent and future uses of diverse tools and platforms– e.g. Blogs, Vimeo, Flicker, Abode DPS, iBooks,and… Read more →