ART —Instagram months, conferences on YouTube, livestreaming series… art schools are reinventing educational tools and responding to digital developments with creativity. From April 5 to 11, an operation on Instagram, Art Students Week, aimed to stimulate talent in these times of confinement.
Students in art, interactive design and visual production schools were invited to participate in the 6e edition of Art Students Week on Instagram, from April 5 to 11, an initiative launched by the Social Media Observatory and supported by the Maison des Artistes: all had a week to promote their graphic universe and make themselves known to the professionals who make up the jury . As a result, a portfolio published by Tribew Editions and professional material by Dalbe.
Instagram month
One month of Instagram was organized at the Fonderie de l’Image Campus located in Bagnolet in Seine – Saint-Denis, with a series of visios to raise students’ awareness of the use of this creative platform that has become essential and which counts today 21 million subscribers in France, of which 69% of users are between 15 and 24 years old.
“In a world where everything goes very quickly, adaptability and originality make the difference for future generations ”, says Florence Guebey, general manager of the Campus Fonderie de l’Image. The school trains, on a work-study basis, in graphic design and digital professions. From May 17 to 22, she is organizing the 11e Edition of Puces Typo, 100% digital, with designer Simon Renaud. “It seems essential to us to maintain these times of experimentation and inspiration ”, she confides, convinced that practical workshops are essential to bring out and enrich inventiveness.
The same reactivity at the National School of Fine Arts in Reims. “In order to guarantee the rules of distancing, we have increased the amplitude of access to the workshops by opening them even during the holidays ”, affirms Raphaël Leather, its director, who ensures to respect the schedule planned for the entrance examination in mid-April which will now take place on the Internet.
Streaming
There is general agreement that the use of live streaming is valuable. This is particularly the case at the National School of Fine Arts in Lyon. “We are constantly mobilized for our students and graduates. Even more in this period of crisis where we are creating digital meetings ”, testifies Élise Chaney, communications officer, who has set up a YouTube channel to relay a weekly conference program. Every week, an artist, a designer, an art critic comes to talk about his work and his news. Another initiative, in partnership with the Goethe Institut de Lyon, on May 5, a 100% online study day is organized within the school on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Joseph Beuys, according to whom, “Thinking is already sculpting ”.
Distance learning art
How far can we go in distance education? Alexandre Gurita, founder of the National School of Art (ENDA) in Paris, believes in an entirely dematerialized form of research in art.
Open to all without age limit or prerequisite diploma, this atypical school which aims to be “liquid”, outside conventional places, and “horizontal” where everyone is free to organize work modules, wishes to accentuate its originality: “We are going to create the first fully online art school with a theoretical and practical course. Opening announced in September 2021.”
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