Viewfinding: Perspectives on New Media Curriculum in the Arts

Minding the Media is a book series with Peter Lang Publishers specifically designed to address the needs of both students and teachers in watching, comprehending, and using media. We are aware of the blatant and insidious uses and effects of media in a corporate-driven globalized world and recognize that educators are often ill-equipped to address this pedagogical force in any critical way. We are also aware of the possibilities of using a wide range of educational settings to raise consciousness about media relations and realities and promote critical, creative alternatives to contemporary mainstream practices.

The Editors: Cathy Mullen’s teaching and research has focused on curriculum development and teaching in photography, light-based media, and digital arts. Mullen is Professor Emerita of Art Education in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses for art educators and supervised numerous M.A. and Ph.D. thesis students researching new media art and education.
Janice Rahn is interdisciplinary in her research and teaching, focusing on the poetics and politics of popular culture. She is author of the book Painting Without Permission: An Ethnographic Study of Hip Hop Graffiti Culture (2001), as well as articles on media and the social construction of identity and on video as a research tool and art material. Rahn has exhibited her audio/video art installations throughout Canada. She is Associate Professor of Art and Education at the University of Lethbridge.