Education and the arts: media arts education: sublimation vs subjugation

Darren Tofts once described the prehistory of technological transformations of culture as 'everywhere felt but nowhere seen in the telematic landscape of the late 20th century.' As we move into the second decade of the 21st century, the affects that technological transformations privileged in culture and art in the late twentieth century---interactivity, interaction, immersion---appear now to us as commonplace and their use in art and media taken for granted. It is easy then to forget just how vibrant the media arts scene has been in Australia since the 1980s. Media artists' engagement with the technological innovations of that time can, like a kind of forgotten prehistory, also be said now to be everywhere felt but nowhere seen (well, rarely).