Opening Artistic Lines: Soundpainting, Technology, and Collaboration

Today’s educational and artistic landscape is dominated with institutions encouraging interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work. The realities of executing such works are far more complex than definitions of each of these words. The ability to connect across artistic borders is problematic. From an artistic perspective, artists are invested in their discipline and artistic voice. In educational institutions, these problems are compounded by finances, facilities, and facilitators.
Opening Artistic Lines: Soundpainting, Technology, and Collaboration is a focus of research that looks at different ways of encouraging interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration. The two branches of this research involve using Soundpainting as a language and process to introduce and explore different disciplines and Technology as a bridge between disciplines. Soundpainting can be a language that allows composition and improvisation across disciplines. The process of creating performances with Soundpainting groups and as a pedagogical tool offers a seamless introduction into transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary work. Using technology as a bridge between art forms in installations and performances can help open up artistic lines.