The Arts for Computing: Broadening Horizons with Metaphors from Melodies, Masterpieces, and Manuscripts (80713)
Session Chair: Evgeny Pyshkin
Sunday, 14 July 2024 12:00
Session: Session 2
Room: G08 (Ground)
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
Arts shift technocratic societies to humanized technologies, mirroring the importance of computer education for non-engineers with arts literacy for IT professionals. The digital transformation through AI affects society and individuals, necessitating cross-disciplinary efforts to blend engineering with non-engineering fields effectively.
In standard computer technology curricula, few courses introduce the arts to students. Developing students' appreciation for art extends their creative and critical thinking horizons and is vital for becoming professionals. Beyond technical competence, this includes respecting human perception of new technologies and the humanistic aspects of technology-driven communication. Many technology and engineering students are strongly focused on professional pragmatism. They often lack passion for the arts, including painting, music, architecture, literature, and performing arts, and seldom visit museums, exhibitions, or concerts. Yet, showing them how art metaphors apply to engineering could extend their technical expertise. Our study shares an experience of introducing arts in scope of traditional ICT classes, where the essential topics from the domains of data management, programming, information retrieval, and natural language processing are introduced with the help of art metaphors; thus, as we hope, provoking the further interest of our students to art and cultural studies. We illustrate how the works of Rembrandt, Botticelli, Basho, Shakespeare, Malevich, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Aalto, and others can enrich computer science classrooms. By discussing the advantages and limitations of generative AI, multimodal language learning solutions, or software analysis and design; we aim to encourage our students to explore the exciting worlds of classic, modern, and contemporary art.
Authors:
Evgeny Pyshkin, University of Aizu, Japan
John Blake, University of Aizu, Japan
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Evgeny Pyshkin is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at University of Aizu in Japan
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