UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Aaron Knochel, associate professor of art education in the College of Arts and Architecture’s School of Visual Arts, has received a 2022-23 Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research at the University of Bergen, Norway, for his project, “The Mesh of Making: New Media Art, Maker Cultures and Posthuman Pedagogies.”
As part of the Digital Culture program in the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, Knochel will examine intersections of new media art, makerspace cultures and pedagogies in arts-integrated learning to better understand creative practice from a broadly interdisciplinary perspective. Outcomes will impact practice in technology-rich education and arts-integrated learning in digital culture.
According to Knochel, developing creative practice, critical thinking and material experimentation are central to learning in the arts….
