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^^^ I'm leaving the above default filler text in to symbolize that I'm not entirely sure what this page should be, and that if anyone wants to change/edit/etc they are more than free to do so. Github suggests a welcome, so... Welcome!
Dominic: Really, really interested in what other people thought about this reading. Like our curriculum exercise in class, I'm left wondering about what is ideal vs. what is possible and hence practical for the current situation. Museums need money to exist. Relying on large commercial interests to supply the money effects a museums position, culture and content. Same with our curriculum. Our societies reliance on industry makes similar changes in what schools deem relevant or sufficiently preparatory for adult life.
How much should this be accounted for in our own personal plans for teaching or starting educational organizations? And in what ways and directions? My mind keeps returning to more "punk rock" style (for lack of a better term) approaches to all of this stuff. Trying to thread the needle of idealism vs practicality. Are you guys having similar feelings or inspirations?
Kar: So like, I am not sure if it's just Github's formatting or not, but I found this reading to be very dense and very just difficult to keep my place when reading, but I got the core concepts. (As I had said in passing, it was like re-reading Tolkien again-- who is a good but very dense writer. However I am aware this reading is important for us as artists and creators and teachers to understand the delicate politics behind the museum. And that it is usually the money that makes the choices not the ideas, which is quite sad considering what these institutions are.
Pgs 15-25 & 34-38 Link to Reading
Kar: Now this one a better time understanding and reading through, maybe because I have an interest in cartoons and comics, anime in manga being some of it, although the content of Blue Tarp was lost on me. Might be something culturally or just I would have to watch it? But honestly I love this concept of a sort of 'zine' like textbook curated by the students themselves, and the articles and content they put forward is surprisingly well thought out and topical. Not that I am unaware teenagers could be for lack of a better term, 'woke af', just remembering my classmates from my highschool and most of them were more interested in next score than what was going on in the world.