Art & pedagogy / teaching / education

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

A selection of René Berger's lectures and the proceedings of a symposium he had organized around art, technology and communication, offering a closer insight into his thinking on video art and new media.

Les Cahiers du son once again draw up an inventory of contemporary sound practices while inviting us to discover the stimulating creativity which, today, animates the presence of sound in the field of visual arts, and within an art school.

The Um Slaim School forms part of a propositional pedagogy for contemporary urbanism in Riyadh, expanding on the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia at the Biennale Architettura 2025, and the work of Riyadh-based practice Syn Architects (Sara Alissa and Nojoud Alsudairi).

Superior and Inferior presents a facsimile reprint of Italian abstract artist and feminist Carla Accardi's provocatory publication Superiore e Inferiore and the first ever English translation of the full text.

The final issue of the annual graphic design journal Composite.

A Nomadic Book celebrates the first five editions of the Nomadic School. Launched in 2020 by Office for a Human Theatre [OHT], the school takes place each summer at around 2000 meters in the Alps, offering a different pedagogical approach—one that's more open to the mountain's ecosystems and rhythms.

Index# 6 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from October–November 2024. It includes contributions from 82 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic digressions that index the arts.

An invitation to think collectively about the ideas and forms of repurposing materials and objects from our everyday lives, confronted with formal and cultural ambitions that are more firmly rooted in the history, present and future of architecture.

A card game designed by Chloé Déchery and Marion Boudier, in collaboration with illustrator Éric Valette, to contribute to the development of a “culture of return” in artistic creation, distribution and teaching.

Research-creation reconsidered from its historical upstream (before, when we spoke of Arts-Sciences), but also from its possible downstream (after, from the point of view of other conceptions and other practices yet to be invented).

Epistemic Imaginaries brings attention to creative educational initiatives and how alternative learning situations work at reinventing community and related knowledge practices.

The design research journal devotes its 59th issue to contemporary forms of graphic design transmission.

How AI can be used in the creative process in art and design.

"Labo d'objet", a research laboratory run by UR Design & Création at the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design, proposes a visual reflection by creating images that associate concrete with vehicles such as cars, motor homes, tractors and caravans, at the crossroads of industrial culture and creative experimentation.

All television images seem to be the same image. An artist and researcher at the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design, Lorenza Mannaioni, attempts to prove this with this book of felt-tip pen images.

A multidisciplinary analysis, based on a historical perspective of theater pedagogies and an eminently contemporary approach to actor training.

61 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fifth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from August -September 2024, organized according to a "deviant taxonomy" of nine new categories: Is That All There Is?; What a Body Can Do; The Physicists’ Laugh; Dens, clubs, hives, and cells; The Tourist; Flickers; Promethean Shame; Proxies; and Inextinguishable Fires.

Following on from work carried out by artist Marianne Mispelaëre in schools, this book explores the diversity of languages that permeate our lives, as well as the political and social issues at stake.

The 14th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with interviews Brian Roettinger, Eliott Grunewald, Aurore Piedigrossi, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Mathilde Agius, Marvin Armand and Cécilia Poupon and a conversation between Erwan Bouroullec and Michel Roset.

This issue of the journal of the inter-schools of art, design and architecture research network Réseau Peinture explores the genre of portraiture.

A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining "alternative" with the passing of time.

Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.

An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.

The fourth issue of the annual review of the École des Arts Décoratifs takes as its starting point the observation of an incandescent and damaged world, unequal and inhospitable, which can only arouse concern and anger in new generations.

64 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fourth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from June–July 2024, (re)arranged into 9 thematic chapters—ranging from sections on DIY and amateurism, on verbal domination, on contemporary resistance and organising efforts, and on our doomscrolling fatigue with the networked world.

PhD and postdoc supervisors from Europe and beyond interrogate the existing formal educational pathways for artistic and practice-based research.

The Dream Academy publication explores art education policy in Northern Norway, with the establishment of the Art Academy in Tromsø in 2007 as a pivot point.

This edition presents the research of Brazilian choreographer, performer, teacher, visual artist, gardener, craftswoman and "post-pornographer" Acauã Shereya during her Master's degree in choreography and performance at ICI/CCN Montpellier.

76 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists, published by e-flux between April–May 2024, arranged into 11 thematic chapters—ranging from the live question of cultural censorship through to the role of diagrams and notation in contemporary artistic practice.

An exploration of the various paths of ecodesign, from material environments to our imaginations, from concern for uses to new narratives.

How AI can be used in the creative process in art and design.

The fifth issue of the annual graphic design journal, dedicated to image and print techniques.

For their thirtieth anniversary, Ulta-red, the international sound art and popular education collective is releasing the first volume of Ulta-red: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry, investigating movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education. 

A board game and a communal ritual conceived by artist Angelo Plessas to explore self-made sacred spaces and inter-species connections.

Extensive survey of the politically outward-looking Conceptualism emerging from Art & Language in the UK. Especially considering its critique of the norms of Modernist art practices in contemporary art, particularly practices of art education.

A chronicle of the recent transformations of art schools, from the point of view of a teacher, at a time when these spaces are both threatened by increasingly fragile and uncertain public policy management, and at the same time more than ever spaces where the word opens up, practices change and art finds itself in direct contact with the most avant-garde movements in society.

The result of a research project revolving around the question of data, headed by artist-photographer Aurélie Pétrel and philosopher Fabien Vallos.

The 13th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with interviews with Paul Hirsch, Sébastian Strappazzon, Matthieu Gafsou, Lorenza Longhi, Gabriele Garavaglia, Loucia Carlier.

The new adventure of the Musée Mobile (a traveling museum aimed at making contemporary art accessible to those who are far from it, from the earliest age, that has been touring France, Europe and Africa since 2011), in partnership with the Centre Pompidou: the first museum truck dedicated to Europe's largest collection of modern and contemporary art, designed by architect Isabel Hérault and artist Krijn de Koning, travelling to various regions and villages.

The "deconstruction" of design, between practice and reflection.

The album includes Milan Knížák's 1973 private recording BROKEN MUSIC, released as a multiple of forty copies by Armin Hundertmark in 1983 on Edition Hundertmark, and a live version of BROKEN REBROKEN, performed in January 2020 at the Museum of Czech Music in Prague by Milan Knížák, Petr Ferenc (aka Phaerentz) and Opening Performance Orchestra.

The challenges of participatory artistic research.

A collective publication resulting from a research project led by Sophie Orlando and Katrin Ströbel that takes as its starting point the way in which current geopolitical, economic and social changes induce a renewal and adjustment of artistic strategies, by investing, in an intersectional perspective, contextual thinking and feminist, queer and postcolonial thinking in an artistic and conceptual way.

A selection of images from the workshop on artificial intelligence organized at the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design.

A data glitch at the beginning of 2022 was the starting point for the sound art project 60 Seconds Each, as a result of a participatory artistic process initiated by Kristof Georgen: 32 tracks by 32 international artists form a 32-minute listening experience of diverse sound positions, each within minimal "expansion".