Short Bio – 2022
Dr. Luke Meeken is an assistant professor of art education at Miami University in Oxford Ohio on the traditional homelands of the Myaamia and Shawnee people. His research attends to the cultivation of critical sensitivities to the material qualities of digital and physical places of arts learning. Drawing on critical and performative digital materialisms, and critical and anticolonial readings of place and place-making, his research examines the habits of attention youth bring to the material histories, politics, and embodied interactions of the digital places they participate in and create. Prior to his doctoral studies, Meeken was a high school digital and traditional media art teacher, and was the lead curriculum designer for Virginia Commonwealth University’s CurrentLab project. He continues to develop and teach summer programming with the Smithsonian, exploring critical and creative potentials of digital materials with middle and high school students.
Dimensions of Dialogue in Places of Learning – 2021
Brief statement of intent with respect to teaching and art.
We Can Be Heroes – 2011
Non-linear, interactive, autobiographical puzzle-comic about teaching, art, and heroes.
The Art Classroom as a Space for Dialogue – 2012
Brief (old) statement of intent with respect to teaching art.
Art and Intersubjectivity, a Theoretical Framework – 2011
In which I lash together an edifice made out of other people’s ideas in which to place my artistic and teaching practice.
Statement: Art as Onion – 2004
A statement of purpose from the end of 2004. It’s old and audacious, but there are still bits I like.