Daniel T. Barney

United States (residence) °1968
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Daniel T. Barney received his PhD in Curriculum Studies from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art Education in the Department of Visual Arts in the College of Fine Arts & Communications at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA where he teaches courses on qualitative research methods and analysis, arts based research, curriculum theory and development, issues in contemporary art, and new and social media. Barney is a former President of the Utah Art Education Association, the current Treasurer of the Arts Based Research SIG of AERA, and he serves on the Editorial Review Board of Art Education.

 

research

research expositions (collaborated)

  • Playing the Spiral Jetty (2012) author(s): Juan Carlos Castro, Daniel T. Barney published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    In this exposition we describe and theorize the evolution of an artistic enquiry entitled Playing the Spiral Jetty. This is accomplished in four parts. In part one we present our understanding of play as research methodology. Then, in part two we narrate and contextualize our encounter of the exhibition Contemporary Masters, an installation of an 18-hole, artist-designed, miniature golf course. In part three we elaborate our improvisations and conceptualizations of Playing the Spiral Jetty. Finally, in part four, we conclude with a theorization of play enacted in our performance. Play, as action and reaction, becomes a non-deterministic tactic or strategy for rethinking and redirecting understandings of and engagements with art. As a research enquiry, play is integrally linked to art making and as such, a way of knowing. The medial space in which play and subsequently art occupy create opportunities for novel ontological understandings.
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