The Future of Education

The constant transformation of communication media have been requiring new strategies, new planning methodologies for creative production. In consequence, a whole new concept of creative expression has emerged: the designing and scripting of media-based procedures intended for artistic re-invention, a process called meta-authorship. Following this tendency, some authors, writers, artists, besides providing new content, have also been performing as designers of media systems. While experiencing with and reinventing media languages, those pioneering artists have gradually abandoned traditional functions as individual producers of texts, images and sounds. They may still produce aesthetic discourses but they are redirecting their creativity in conceiving media structures that contextualize aesthetic discourses, in designing media systems that provide for other people's input, in programming software that may mimetize or surpass human creative expression. Those newly defined artists have been enlarging the creative spectrum, investigating processes of co-authorship merging human and artificial or digital agencies, reinventing systems that allow for collective expression, through combinatory or generative processes. They have been enunciating procedural propositions pertaining to a metalinguistic order of discourses. They can be properly called meta-artists. They have indicated that the rising author, artist of the new electronic age, has to become a programmer, a designer, an architect of media systems, a composer of media processes, to fully used the potential of new media technologies. However, this newly developed (meta)-language has not yet been considered as a language in itself and therefore has never been seen as a corpus for serious investigation and further experimentation. Even so, recent experiments with this metalinguistic form of expression have resulted in unheard-of forms of co-authorship and in unprecedented artistic expression. Those artistic experiments will provide the basis for an original theoretical proposition for historical research, for re-apprehending works of different time periods, and also for the conception of a pedagogical project intended to orient creative expression in visual arts, communications and literature.