Live-Streaming of the Korean Arts Studies Forum

The Korean National Research Center for the Arts (Director Lee Jinwon), affiliated with the Korea National University of Arts, broadcasted live this year’s forum, “Future, Higher Education, Arts, Borderless, Mind, Embrace” in real-time.

This forum aimed to diagnose the crisis in art education in colleges to seek innovative measures to provide an artist-centered education environment. The K-Arts professors and the professionals in cognitive science, therapy, humanities, and some other interdisciplinary academic fields attended the forum to converse about the directions for cultivating proactive artists of the new generation who find their questions and answers, discipline themselves.

In part I of the forum, under the topic of “Borderless,” the attendants diagnosed the curricula of art colleges probed some examples of new attempts to destroy borders between academic fields or years to discuss how to apply them back to art education. In part II, under the topic of “Mind,” they diagnosed the mental health of art college students who are suffering from “Corona Blue,” the anxiety and depression caused by the Coronavirus situation, in the age of “New Normal.” The discussion sought solutions for these students by adopting some therapeutic practices such as meditation into art education. Part III was on “Embrace.” In this session, the participants discussed how art colleges should embrace and incorporate different academic fields such as humanity, creative education, digital technology into art education.