Interesting article from The Australian that discusses how the visual arts schools have stepped back from dialogues about business ideas at the same time that business dialogue has become more focused on creativity and design.
INSIDE the nation’s art schools students go about the important work of critiquing and subverting presumptions and preconceptions about art and life.
Significantly they are also generating ideas and images that have commercial potential, at a time when the federal Government is pursuing an agenda of innovation and growth of the creative industries.
Although there is a great deal of discussion about the concept of creativity, and about intellectual property as an exploitable resource, surprisingly the role of the visual arts in advancing this has been marginalised during the past decade.
While other disciplines and professions have adopted the concepts of creativity and innovation, and used those words with tedious frequency, the visual arts sector has stepped back from the plate with the result that others have taken guardianship of these concepts.
So, with the Review of the National Innovation System in full swing, a survey of what ishappening in the nation’s art schools is timely, to judge the veracity of the sector’s claims to innovation.
