[13/3] SELFIE

Showed my process:
Owing to the blog that we were assigned to create in our first day of class, I am now able to visually see the process of what materials we covered and how. My blog, which is filled with pictures and reflections on the work we did in the class, turned out to be another form of a portfolio. It also contains all of the processes of my successes and failures while making art with different kinds of media and forms.

Explained my outcome:
Writing reflections on my process of learning new things in my blog every week not only helped keep me on track but also motivated me to explain the outcomes that we got to explore in the class. When I unintentionally got to choose the topic of sound as a medium for my final project, I immediately went back to the post where I wrote about it and revisited the area where I struggled with it. Given that I wrote down the explanation of this outcome and what had gone well or not, I was able to come up with a better idea whenever I needed to.

Linked to vocabulary:
Although most of the concepts we covered in our class were pretty much very new to me, I got to reinterpret some of the topics, such as sound, that was already very familiar to me but not considered as part of media that can be taught in art education.

Found multiple possibilities:
Through this course, I learned many possibilities of how to incorporate new technologies into art teaching. I was not sure nor did I even consider using circuits as part of the art project until we covered that subject in our class. I was particularly intrigued by the way we can infuse this subject matter into art teaching with ease.

I persevered through the work:
While working on a weekly assignment for this class, I tried to perserve my style as a designer as much as possible. I even ventured to bring my very own interests in most of the works we had to do for creative assignments.

Eliminated carelessness:
I attempted not to underestimate the fact that technologies sometimes take up more time than advertised. Even though we assume that technology would automatically calculate everything for you in a precise manner, it still requires more accurate measurements than we do by hand. Otherwise, unwanted outcomes will always happen if we don't eliminate carelessness.

[13/2] Digital Stewardship: SCRATCH

[13/1] Final Project: Sound + Drawing + Play

Final


My project initially started with a question of what technology-infused art education is. As much as I enjoy seeing the emergence of new technologies in the creative field, I admire the originality of traditional art as well. I approached this project by taking these two questions in my mind. While I was working on a final project for this course, I wished to learn how to integrate digital making in a teaching setting and understand the role of art in education in this newly acknowledged change in education. 



Process

Idea Sketch:

3D printing:

(Tinkercad)

The first thing that came across my mind when I saw 'drawing' on the dice was an object like a pencil. I used Tinkercad for sketching the 3D object which I needed as part of my final artwork.

To attach something on top of the object that I was creating, I needed to make a hole as shown below.

(Tinkercad)

(MakerBot)

(3D outcomes + Bells)

Laser Cutter: 

(with wood)

I wanted to create an image that reflects playfulness as well as the movement of sound.

I also expected that various shapes and lines would create a different sound.

(Steel?)

I layered a texture underneath the drawing board I created in the hope of creating another type of sound when the bell attached to pencil goes across it.

[12/2] Creative Assignments with Circuit

I paired up with Sara for this creative assignment working with the circuit.

Sarah drew an image of this bug called @!#$ which seemed to suit very well with our assignment with putting LED together.

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Step-by-step guide:

1. Draw an image on a piece of paper

2. Get materials ready: Cooper tape,  battery (circle), and LED light bulb
3. Check the LED with batter to figure out the side of + and -
4.  Decide where to place the LEDs. Poke the holes through the artwork(paper).
5. Bend over LED legs and connect the copper tape (+) legs with a (+) side of a battery and (-) legs to (-) side of a battery.

[12/1] 2 takeaways from the readings

[Invent to Learn by Sylvia Libow Martinez & Gary Stager]
I especially enjoy reading this article because it provided me with an overview of the brief history of education that's related to making. By doing so,  the author was able to list all the educators and philosophers who addressed the idea of students learn the most while they are making or doing something. I always knew we learn more things when we actually get to do it instead of listening to the lecture. However, it just made more sense when I heard ideas quoted by actual education philosophers.

From what I learned through the reading is that making, tinkering, and electronics should definitely be introduced into the art classroom. Projects like these will provide flexible learning arrangements that promote collaboration, enabling students to test out their own ideas and most importantly will learn while doing it. It will also be another method for engaging learners in a creative way while exposing students to new skills and technologies.

[11/2] Final Project: Initial Steps

For my final project, I got these three topics; Sound&Audacity, Play, and Drawing.

Among all the weekly assignments we did in this course, I personally found the assignment on sound & audacity the most difficult to complete. I have never had a chance to explore this area until I took this course. The whole process from recording to creating another sound didn't come with ease to me. So when I saw the word 'Sound & Audacity' on the dice, I was not very pleased with the result at first. But I figured that It would be a good chance to revisit my uncomfortableness with this specific subject and boost my weakest part. It will definitely something that would make me step out of my comfort zone.
To get some inspiration, I visited Tanya Bonakdar Gallery where Susan Philipsz currently exhibited her works last weekend. I don't have a clear idea of what I will do for the final project yet. But I was thinking about doing something with installation work that would involve some interaction.

[11/1] 3D Printing Creative Assignment