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Thoughts on Art and Teaching

“Thoughts on Art and Teaching” (http://thoughtsonartandteaching.blogspot.co.uk) is a regular blog (currently 270+ posts) initiated in 2009 and devoted to the critical examination and discussion of major themes and issues within the field of art higher education and art theory. This has led to published outputs including The Sunday Herald (7th February 2010), Ceramic Review (http://www.scarva.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=3984), Dyske.com (a site of cultural critique run by Dyske Suematsu with essays by invited contributors) (http://dyske.com/paper/924, http://dyske.com/paper/922, http://dyske.com/paper/937 and http://dyske.com/paper/931) an interview published in “Art Crits 20 Questions” Q-Art London (http://q-art.org.uk/publications/) and associated video by Giles Bunch (http://vimeo.com/77330529) - Hamlyn is the first expert to feature. The blog has directly informed conference papers (output 2) and initiates high-level discussion with artists, educationalists, philosophers and theorists around the world, critically underpinning Hamlyn’s teaching and art practice. Commentators and contributors include Donald Brook (Emeritus Professor of Flinders University) who writes:

“The form in which he presents his material is elegant, eloquent and lucid, setting a standard for online conversation that is seldom met in a domain of intellectual communication where the authoritative voice is still struggling to distinguish itself from the merely opinionated.”

James Atherton (http://www.doceo.co.uk), Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy who has frequently cited Hamlyn (http://recentreflection.blogspo.co.uk/search?q=Hamlyn), writes:

“Jim has taken this on in a way which few others have done—and none that I know of in his discipline. […] In this respect I am sure that Jim has already made an impact, and will continue to do so.”

In May 2013 Hamlyn embarked on an extended research project, recorded on the blog, which charts the most prominent theories of imagination currently available and outlines several important new findings about of the role of perceptible representation in the evolutionary emergence of consciousness. This research has emerged through a lengthy and involved correspondence with Brook.