meta-academy is an ongoing research on e-learning for contemporary performance practices

meta-academy explores:

• The affordances of networked environments for collaborative knowledge production as open education strategies focusing on interdisciplinary contemporary performance practices and choreographic knowledge.
• New models of on-line collaborative knowledge creation and e-learning among artists, researchers, art centres, festivals and universities.
• Trans-media and meta-media approaches to expand current research on documentation models and transmission on contemporary choreographic practices.

meta-academy is led by the following intersecting questions:

• What are the specific affordances of the new internet platforms such as social networking, wikis, media aggregations, networked video, live video broadcasting, meta-data and data flows for the instructional design of online learning environments for contemporary performance practices?
• How can we integrate  internet native emergent practices and potential new inscriptions of knowledge such as b/vlogging, micro-blogging, remixing, media and data mashups,  locative media, video annotations, augmented reality, tagging and meta-tagging, people and conceptual networks visualisation, and collaborative writing curation and co-creation into formal and institutional online learning environments?
• How contemporary contemporary artists can we use the online environment and activities as spaces of artistic research on the performative conditions that are specific of the networked educational space ?
• How can choreographic knowledge and embodiment be understood and designed in the online  learning experiences?

meta-academy was conceived by Marlon Barrios Solano with the support of:

• ICKAmsterdam, The Netherlands
• STEIM, The Netherlands
• DanceDigital, UK
• HZT Berlin, Germany
• BATES College. USA

meta-academy  was conceived by Marlon Barrios Solano

 and is led in collaboration with Rachel Boggia

meta-academy projects since 2013:

Minded Motion Lab meta-academy@bates 2013

Connecting Contexts meta-academy@Taking Place-ImPulsTanz-Bates Dance Festival 2014

The Pattern that Connects | meta-academy@HZT-Bates 2015