Surveillance/privacy
I talked to my group members about what generative topics we could choose. A generative topic is a topic that can be expanded upon in many areas. We all seemed to be most interested in privacy and or surveillance. So we did some research on artists who use these concepts. Once artist I came upon is Lee Walton. I spent a lot of time on his web site. He seems like a real lovable guy. His art is really funny. I regards to our topic he does art on facebook. Basically he takes his friends status reports and then films himself acting them out. He posts the films to vimeo and of course onto his facebook status page. This artwork can be viewed here: http://www.leewalton.com/projects/fbook/index.html
In regards to our generative topics we thought about reality t.v., cameras in public installed by the government, what it feels like to be filmed, filming people when they don’t know it, and how we all enjoy watching people on film react to particular situations (when they are unaware of being filmed). It would be fun to do social experiments in public to see how people act in certain situations. For example I know of a guy who secretly filmed himself screaming in downtown crossing and on the film no one came to his aid. People just walked past him.
Also I came across another artist that performed mini plays in front of surveillance cameras. This is very creative. This type of art shows that new media can create a venue for art to to seen that is out of the regular gallery space. Lee Walton’s art can be seen anywhere video is played. Or even anywhere folks can perform status reports themselves. Another artist named Kate pocrass had portable exhibition venues inside her hat and jacket.- contents of wallet She also has an art exhibition where you call a hotline and listen to her instructions on the message. She will often instruct those to go to a special shop, talk to the owner, or view something form a particular vantage point. Check it out here: http://www.mundanejourneys.com/
Monday, March 29, 2010
New Media in Art Education
New media in art education opens the venue for a creator rather than consumer model. For example can be seen here: http://chinatownbanquet.org/about.html The banquet project is a multimedia project to raise awareness of Chinatown culture and its history. This site is a great example in how the visual arts can create community development and education. This site was made by high school students that is a great example of interest driven learning.
In my opinion today’s new media can be a great tool to propel interest driven learning with youth. New media allows youth to choose what they are interested in and access it.
While doing some research I came across an article titled New Media and Its Superpowers: Learning, Post Pokemon (A talk for The National Association of Independent Schools February 25, 2010), in the article the author said “We know that most learning and engagement happens outside of school. For decades, progressive education has worked to integrate the learning happening in schools with what kids find important and meaningful outside of schools.” New media is a great way to do what this author is talking about.
Imagine if we can sneak in learning onto kids online social activity. For example, I often check my facebook page. It is a great way to keep up with folks. I also play Farmville. I have a nice simple farm. In the game I must harvest my crops in time or they will die. This automatically gives me insight of the sense of urgency or timing it takes to be a farmer. Now they say on Farmville that co-ops will be coming soon. I’m looking forward to that. Visual media will keep my attention for hours on end if I am not careful.
I then went to this site: http://www.uic.edu/classes/ad/ad382/
which gave the following information about media education:
Studies show that media education is most effective when it includes:
both media analysis and production
teacher-created combinations of activities, rather than off-the-shelf curricula
coordinated efforts across all subject areas
This site was very interesting: http://www.uic.edu/classes/ad/ad382/ and had some curriculum which incorporates new media.
I also found an artist named Cao Fei who is featured in season 5 of art 21. In her art she creates a world in second life called RMB City. It can be seen here http://www.pbs.org/art21/index.html.
In my opinion today’s new media can be a great tool to propel interest driven learning with youth. New media allows youth to choose what they are interested in and access it.
While doing some research I came across an article titled New Media and Its Superpowers: Learning, Post Pokemon (A talk for The National Association of Independent Schools February 25, 2010), in the article the author said “We know that most learning and engagement happens outside of school. For decades, progressive education has worked to integrate the learning happening in schools with what kids find important and meaningful outside of schools.” New media is a great way to do what this author is talking about.
Imagine if we can sneak in learning onto kids online social activity. For example, I often check my facebook page. It is a great way to keep up with folks. I also play Farmville. I have a nice simple farm. In the game I must harvest my crops in time or they will die. This automatically gives me insight of the sense of urgency or timing it takes to be a farmer. Now they say on Farmville that co-ops will be coming soon. I’m looking forward to that. Visual media will keep my attention for hours on end if I am not careful.
I then went to this site: http://www.uic.edu/classes/ad/ad382/
which gave the following information about media education:
Studies show that media education is most effective when it includes:
both media analysis and production
teacher-created combinations of activities, rather than off-the-shelf curricula
coordinated efforts across all subject areas
This site was very interesting: http://www.uic.edu/classes/ad/ad382/ and had some curriculum which incorporates new media.
I also found an artist named Cao Fei who is featured in season 5 of art 21. In her art she creates a world in second life called RMB City. It can be seen here http://www.pbs.org/art21/index.html.
A Bicycle Built for two
The song “A Bicycle Built for Two” has progressed through time historically with technology.
I went to the u-tube link here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwMltbsIsqo&feature=player_embedded# and listened to the piano play a 1920’s version of a bicycle built for two. This was played automatically on the piano on what is called a piano roll piano player. Here technology moves away from the body and lets the purely technical mechanical piano roll do the music making.
Then I went to this site http://www.vortex.com/av#DAISY and listened to the first text to speech song on a computer. This was done on an IBM computer in 1961 at Bells Labs. A popular movie, “2001 A Space Odyssey” had a scene in it where a computer dies while singing a bike build for two. Here human speech is recorded and then used by the computer to form speech.
Next I went to this link http://www.vortex.com/av#DAISY and watched Clara Rockmore play the theremin. I think the theremin is neat but I don’t really like it with classical music. The theremin was the first electrical instrument ever invented. When you play the theremin it usually has two sensors you control with your hands. One is for volume and the other frequency. The theremin was the beginning of technology going back to using the body.
The theremin is some place in-between digital and analog. It uses radio waves. The digitizer replaced it. With digital we all went away from the body. Instead of playing instruments we made them play with our computers.
Now we have contemporary artists like Scott Snibbe who is back towards the body. Where he gets people interacting with his art. His computers record their shadows and play them back. This shows us that new media art today is about humanity. The new media today is participatorier. It is not just there to be viewed but they’re to be interacted with.
Today certain technology can take a music sample and rework it into something else. This makes me think about popular hip-hop artists that do covers of older artists. This brings us ethical copywriting issues. Would those artists want the hip-hop artists to be doing covers and drastically changing their music? My opinion is go for it hip hop artists! Take whatever you want. As long as you’re creating something new it’s cool.
I went to the u-tube link here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwMltbsIsqo&feature=player_embedded# and listened to the piano play a 1920’s version of a bicycle built for two. This was played automatically on the piano on what is called a piano roll piano player. Here technology moves away from the body and lets the purely technical mechanical piano roll do the music making.
Then I went to this site http://www.vortex.com/av#DAISY and listened to the first text to speech song on a computer. This was done on an IBM computer in 1961 at Bells Labs. A popular movie, “2001 A Space Odyssey” had a scene in it where a computer dies while singing a bike build for two. Here human speech is recorded and then used by the computer to form speech.
Next I went to this link http://www.vortex.com/av#DAISY and watched Clara Rockmore play the theremin. I think the theremin is neat but I don’t really like it with classical music. The theremin was the first electrical instrument ever invented. When you play the theremin it usually has two sensors you control with your hands. One is for volume and the other frequency. The theremin was the beginning of technology going back to using the body.
The theremin is some place in-between digital and analog. It uses radio waves. The digitizer replaced it. With digital we all went away from the body. Instead of playing instruments we made them play with our computers.
Now we have contemporary artists like Scott Snibbe who is back towards the body. Where he gets people interacting with his art. His computers record their shadows and play them back. This shows us that new media art today is about humanity. The new media today is participatorier. It is not just there to be viewed but they’re to be interacted with.
Today certain technology can take a music sample and rework it into something else. This makes me think about popular hip-hop artists that do covers of older artists. This brings us ethical copywriting issues. Would those artists want the hip-hop artists to be doing covers and drastically changing their music? My opinion is go for it hip hop artists! Take whatever you want. As long as you’re creating something new it’s cool.
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