competence

There is no contemporary initiative or agenda for artschools in the so called Knowledge-societies wich is not based on the term of »competence« framed by the rhetorics of new media. This is also symptomatic for cultural, political as well as economic fields (»competence team«, »competence initiative« etc.). In the same time we are facing an enoying stand still of cultural and visual epistemological research for a new basis of education it is happening an explosion of selfexpression on picture-, text- and diary-based blogs and forums like youtube, myspace, flickr etc. which contain without question big potentials of new forms and contents of communication. Perhaps this cul-de-sac is a result of the wrong path which is based on »competence« as an accumulative cultural technique? What about a new evaluation of the epistemological directions? My interest is in between this discourse.

Basis of research: »Kunst, Informatik, Theorie«:
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~roemer_adbk/

Stefan Roemer would be happy to discuss this with interested participants