"The site of education is a complex terrain, literally marked in time

by physical, social, imaginary and psychic terms. I teach in a building

at CalArts but where does the learning take place? Does the class

really end when we leave the room? Likewise, I’m often rehearsing lectures

on my long commute to U.C. Riverside and constantly communicating

with my students by e-mail. To think about the architecture of

an art education, then, is not simply to consider the material spaces

of art schools; rather, it is a way to examine how our ideas and fantasies

about what an ideal education might look like constantly brush

up against the banal reality of institutional corridors and bureaucratic

maneuvering."



A viralnet.net project edited by artist Ken Ehrlich with contributions by Janet Sarbanes, Pat Morton, Tim Durfee, Machine Project, Katie Bachler, The Public School, Liam Gillick and Pablo Helguera.



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