Computer Art Congress 2008 Emerging forms of computer art: making the digital sense

Musical Education and Creativity in Computer arts
Hyperscore Project in Schooling

Natércia A. Pacheco, Rafael Tormenta e Maria José Araújo - Universidade do Porto

This paper, presented in the Computer Art Congress in México, aims to present a critical reflection on the interventional work developed by “Hyperscore in schooling”, a research project created to explore the ICT – Information and Communication Technologies in a creative perspective, using music as a communication language and the computer as a digital technology tool mediated by internet. For this purpose we have foreseen music language and its specific ways of artistic expression and communication, intersected by digital language within the capabilities of this software and the internet. This project was carried out in collaboration with ten Portuguese basic schools, where hyperscore software was previously installed, and it involved 360 students, 16 teachers and 7 researchers. The music composition software allows students who are not familiar with the music language not only to acknowledge its coding but also to experience a type of learning process in an autonomous and inventive way. This analytical perspective opens a very stimulating standpoint since it opens the debate on the pedagogical relationship between student/teacher and student/knowledge within a learning process. Furthermore, and due to the connections it created with other learning areas, this project had the advantage to open up new horizons and to create a new ‘cultural tuning’ within the teaching of music in basic schools that allowed a deeper proximity with the new generation of students.
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"The Computer Art Congress CAC.2, has chosen Mexico, to call artists, authors, creators, distributors, instructors, inventors, journalists, managers, producers, scientists and technologists, concerned by those emerging artistic and technologic forms, contributing, collaborating and exchanging their art-works, experiences, know-how, knowledge and visions on the "digital" Art.

It was a common forum for exchange between Artists, Researchers, and Technologists involved in this artistic area. The topics of the congress were chosen to establish a multi-disciplinary environment for participants from several backgrounds, to discuss how computer/media/network art can take its own place in the art."

Distance between Art & Science has narrowed to the point tha CA looks to be quite an independent and autonomous field starving to reach its maturity. From this perspective, CA cannot evolve separately from the information technology (IT) development strategy. Today, along with digital content production, which is in some measure produced accordingly to collective intelligence schemes, we also observe emerging forms of CA that strive to develop new ways to interact with digital content, new artifacts tha suggest digital content and new paradigms that aim to make sense of CA."

Khaldown Zreik - University Paris VIII-France
and Everardo Reyes Garcia - Tecnológico de Menterrey Campus Toluca, Mexico