FACULTY


Juan Carlos Castro
Assistant Professor
Art Education & Foundations

jcastro2@illinois.edu | website | CV

Teaching areas:

Art Education: Methods of Teaching Art, New and Social Media. Foundations: Drawing & Time Based Media

Degrees:

B.F.A. Maryland Institute College of Art, M.A.T. Maryland Institute College of Art, Ph.D. The University of British Columbia

Juan Carlos Castro is Assistant Professor of Art Education and Foundations at the University of Illinois. His research focuses on the dynamics and qualities of knowing, learning and teaching art through new and social media as understood through complexity thinking, network theory, hermeneutics and phenomenology. He is also a practicing artist whose current inquiry explores place, ecology, and learning.

Selected Work

  • Castro, J.C., Barney, D., (accepted).M Mashups: Deriving fluid forms of inquiry through new media art. In R. Irwin, C. Leggo, (Eds.), Family Resemblances: Questions of Form, Evaluation, and Authorship in A/r/tography. (Yale U Press)

  • Darts, D., Castro, J.C., Grauer, K. Sinner, A., (in press). Community-based new media arts programs: Engaging learners in alternate learning environments. In R. Sweeny (Ed.), Digital Visual Culture.

  • Castro, J.C. (accepted). Art, New media, and holistic art education: Re-considering cognitions, corporealities, and ontologies in social networking environments. In L. Campbell & S. Simmons (Eds.), The Heart of Art Education: Essays on Holistic Human Development and Integration.

  • Castro, J.C. (2009). Even out the playing field: Teaching and learning art through social media. Canadian Art Teacher. 8 (1), 35-41.

  • Castro, J.C. (2007). Enabling artistic inquiry. Canadian Art Teacher. 6 (1), 6-16.

  • Castro, J.C. (2007). Constraints that enable: Creating spaces for artistic inquiry, Proceedings of the 2007 Complexity Science and Educational Research Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.

  • Castro, J. C. (2007). Through the lens of another: Photography, video and the web in arts-based educational research. Proceedings of the Art Based Educational Research Conference, The University of Bristol, Graduate School of Education, Bristol, London.

Courses

Undergraduate: Methods of Teaching Art, Drawing I, Design II: Time Based Media

Graduate: Knowing, Learning, and Teaching Art through New and Social Media