Christmas Cookies 3D-printed

Self-Organizing Learning Environments

I watched this TED talk for a different class, and I thought it was applicable to some of our discussions throughout the semester.

http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html 

Mitra's research demonstrates that if children have interest, education will happen -- and technology is a big part of that.  He develops this idea of SOLE's (Self-Organizing Learning Environments) where children sit in groups and work together using a shared computer. Using technology AND working together seems to enrich the learning experience. It reminds me of some of our discussions about using the computer collaboratively, rather than independently.

EKG Sensor Hoodie

http://vimeo.com/9528724

Becca H's Exhibition Ideas

I am interested in potentially showing my final outcome for the exhibition.  I have changed direction from my original idea, focusing on collage, photography, and environment.  I am working with collaging photographs using photoshop to create layered landscapes.  Below is an image of the outcome.  I can show a digital file (on a projector, if available), or I can print the file. The image size is 2x8.

Another idea is to exhibit two of my yarn scans.  Below are the images.  I can show the digital files (if we have a projector) or use prints on 8.5x11 paper.

Alternatively, I could show the collage piece that I created from the photography assignment.  The original collage is 9x12. I could also scan it and use a digital file, or scan it and print the file on 8.5x11 paper. 

Possible Exhibition Pieces?

Though I wish my final project would be completed tonight in time for the exhibition (would it be possible to add it later, if there's space? It would probably be five or six 8"x10" photographic prints), I would like to exhibit some of my scanning, photography, and printing projects from this semester - they will all be printed on an assortment of textured papers, ranging from 4"x6" to 13"x19".

I will bring in a large assortment of those works, but here are some possibilities (some of which might be removed from the batch I bring tomorrow): A. Scans; B. Intentional Mistakes; C. Revelation (Clouds and Light)

  

 

Exhibition work

Here are the pieces I would like to include if there is space. I am very sorry I wont be able to make it Tuesday but since I live in New Paltz I can really only make the trip once a week. 

  

A series of four scanography images printed with archival ink on 8 1/2 x 11 gloss paper

    

A series of two scanography images printed with archival ink on 8 1/2 x 11 gloss paper

Becca's Exhibition/Final Concept

For the exhibition I would like to display part of my final project. These above are 3 of the works I have begun to make in a self-portrait series. They are marker on brown recycled paper. Each is 8 1/2" x 11" and I am conceptualizing a video to accompany them. I would like to use the mini projector we have in class and mount it on an opposing wall to play a short video over the works. I may also print multiple copies of the portraits and explore how duplicates may be used to create a new composition, an ode to digital photography's accessibility and multiplicity.

EXHIBITION

For the exhibition I am thinking in presenting one of the two pieces that  came out of the Printing assignment and the scannography assignment.

1. A series of four prints [archival ink on on glossy paper, US size letter aprox.]

2. A series of four scanography (archival ink on matte paper, US letter size]

FINAL PROJECT video+design+other

The video I am working as a Final Project is a performance that came out of the Video assignment: these DO NOT CROSS lines that I've started to record since I came to NYC and that I see as "evanescent installations": a dialog between the rigidity of urban space and the fluidity of urban life; a game between order and disorder; an interaction between geometric and organic lines. 
One day, while I was recording some of these installations I saw a child who was carrying one of these 'lines'. He was playing with it while following her mother, who at one point asked him to stop that game.
This situation, together with the Francis Alÿs video Reel/Unreel (2011) I recently saw, made me think in doing this piece. November 25th, together with Salvador, my nine-years-old neighbor, we walk the Greenpoint streets with a DO NOT CROSS line we have founded.

Here you can see the video. However it is a mute version, since I'm still working on the sound.
https://vimeo.com/55247770

Nr. 2 - for exhibition: In Conversation with Mother

My Final project is a work in progress.

I am recording skype conversations with my family and friends since September now, trying to catch the moments when pixelations of the image happen. Currently I am sorting through the footage, trying to find interesting footage that have these distortions and at the same time tell a story.

I envision my installation, when completed, to be a homy, intimate corner with the screenshot-pictures standing and hanging around, and a laptop where you can view the final video as if you where skyping yourself.

I have also captured screenshots during these conversations, some I have placed in picture frames. For our exhibit, I would like to show two of these pictures, as part of the New Media New Forms class 2012.

Title: 
In Conversation with Mother

Material:
screenshots during skype conversation, picture frames (digital print)

Dimensions:
8,5 " x 7 "
7 " x 5,5 "


Here is an example of the footage that I collected. 

Nr. 1 - for exhibition: New Media Art

The first piece I would like to exhibit, as part of the New Media New Forms class, is my computer-keys-earring-installation that came out of the Switch On/Off assignment.



Title: 
New Media Art

Material:
computer keys, findings,
telephone-cord

Dimensions:
27" x 22"

Homework Final

1) Finish your final project and prepare it for presentation so we can talk about it in our last class on Dec 12. 2) Blog your suggestions for a Macy/Myer’s exhibition till Monday Dec 10 at midnight ON OUR CLASS BLOG. Include images or media files containing a general view and/or details as needed; also, add measurements, materials, title and a short blurb that describes the piece with all but not more than the information an anonymous viewer would need to enjoy your work. Feel free to make more than one suggestion, yet, since space is limited please be flexible for alternative viewing spaces or to make adjustments.- The gathering for the hanging in Macy Gallery will be on Tuesday at 1pm in Macy Gallery; please join me in meeting with Joy Moser, who is the curator of the show; hopefully we will be able to showcase all work either in the gallery or in Myer’s Media Lab. 4) Revisit the “Strictly Classroom” wiki, reflect in which way your position has shifted and add a blog-post on your individual blog with your observations about new media in education/art classrooms. 5) Create a final observation/evaluation entry: Revisit the content of our class and blog about your learning. Include in your musing a sentence or two about: If you were to visit another new media class, what would you like to learn next? 6) Grant each other access to your individual blogs, comment on each other’s output and reflections, create a minimum of 3 comments dispersed across the different blogs, 10, if you took this class for 3 credits or if you needed to compensate for absences. 7) You have time till Dec 16 to submit and complete all assignments. If you have to make up for classes, this is one suggestion: Create a sound recording of your choice; if you can relate to them, use the suggestions from class, see images on the blog below. As you create and add your piece to the blog (soundcloud seems the best way to post), think and write about how you would want to present it. If you need help, contact the instructor. Also, if you would like to get special feedback, please feel free to set up an appointment; I am happy to go deeper into your work along with you. - Thank you for a great collaboration. I am looking forward to some of the final output of our class and to give you some feedback as I will be grading your blogs.

Eric Whitacre's "Virtual Choir"

         I wrote about this on my blog and I'm sure many of you have seen this, but I still think it's a really fascinating concept to think about. Eric Whitacre compiled and layered together 243 separate video/sound clips to create one large choral arrangement, and continues to make such arrangements (now with multiple thousands of videos). I saw him speak at Lincoln Center last year and he is extremely interested in the individual singers, as well as their backgrounds and emotive expression, which wouldn't be present without the visual video element of his works. He's definitely a showman, if nothing else haha...

Bobby McFerrin

Awesomeness.

PENTATONIC SCALE AVE MARIA But really every video of him is amazing, he's a really cool guy, and empowers people to use their voices more creatively!

Homework 10

1) Further define and work on your final project. Due date: Dec 10. Add a paragraph about it’s current state on your blog. 2) If you haven’t done so already, finish the video project which you had presented during our class on Nov 7; put the outcome online. If you have troubles with any step involved, contact your instructor. 3) Revisit our video class and your notes about it. Come up with 2 ideas about how you would like to introduce video through lesson plans in an art class (age: your choice); alternatively: 1 or 2 paragraphs describing how you would like to continue to work with video creatively; alternatively: what you have been able to learn about video as a creative material. 4) Share your experiences, thoughts, notes, learning about the workshop with Deren - Intro to Electronics for Art Teachers/Artists. 5) Research 1 or (if you signed up for 3 credit points) 2 artists who have used electronics / coding / software in their work. Observe how they used it; how obvious that component is; and how creative they were in their approach. Blog about it. 6) Research 1 or (if you signed up for 3 credit points) 2 artists who have used sound in their work. Observe how they used it; how obvious that component is; and how creative they were in their approach. Blog about it. 7) Think about what you would like to present in a class exhibition and blog about it.

3D Image File Archive

Just recently was talking to a friend who is developing a program for storing 3D image files, thought I would share this idea with everyone. It's basically a similar idea to iPhoto or iTunes--but instead of a program that stores your music or photo files, this program will store and organize CAD files that are images of 3D printing concepts. What do you think? It's really amazing how many opportunities there are for developing technological and social culture around a new medium...

Remaining classes

Novemeber 14: video
NO CLASS November 28 instead:
Dec 1: 9.30am - 4.30pm Painting studio (Macy 4th floor)
Dec 5: Audio, Sound, Microphone
Dec 12: Finishing up. Presentations of Final Project.

3D Printing Photobooth

I came across this article in Wired today about a pop-up photo booth in Japan that allows people to create a miniature or "action figure" of themselves using 3D printing. The cost for one figurine is about $265.

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/11/3d-printing-photobooth/

ART THOUGHTZ: How to Make an Art.

Homework 9

1) Sign up for a tinkercad.com account and create a 3D model of your liking that you could later on (you don't have to) print with our Makerbot-Replicator. Tinkercad has a very good start-tutorial which will make it easy for you to get first-hand experiences. Push this as far as you would like it to. The goal of this assignment is to have an experience, to intrigue your imagination and include 3D printing in the repertoire of your creative thinking. 2) Think of possibilities of what one can do creatively with 3D printing and create a blog entry that focuses on it. 3) Research an artist who uses 3D printing creatively and blog about her/him. 4) Our next class session will focus on video. As we have spoken in class, there are 2 ways of how you can approach this. The first: Find a video online that you would like to use as your template. Choose a sequence or the entire video and redo it. If you feel comfortable go ahead and create the video. Or just present your idea in next class. The second possibility: Create a video or idea of a video which consists of a single 1 minute shot that you don't have to edit or change. If you feel comfortable with the technology involved, go ahead and create the video. Or just present your idea in our next class. 5) Research an artist who uses video creatively and write a blog entry about it.

Lumiere minutes - Pedagogy of cinema

Cinema In Course (Cinema en curs) is defined as a pedagogic program that is both of and with film because it pursues a pressing double objective: to draw young people to cinema as a form of art, creation and culture, and to explore the pedagogic potential of cinema creation.
It began in Catalonia (northeast of Spain) in 2005 and is being implemented in primary and secondary schools with pupils between 3 and 18 years old. One of the main backbones is the joint and continued work between teachers, professors and film professionals (directors, scriptwriters, cinematographers, editors…).
Lumiere Minutes (Minuts Lumiere) is one of the several projects developed within the framework of Cinema en curs. In this project students were experimenting with documentary film, playing with single and still shots, like the first Lumiere films. For that purpose they had to thoughtfully choose a situation and how to capture it. In the link I´m attaching you can find information about the lesson plans, experiences, etc. However, unlike the Cinema In course web, this is not yet translated to English.

Minuts Lumière
Cinema in course

Homework 8

1) We started to discuss this in class. Go back to your notes and share your thoughts on your experiences with the printing process. Try to respond to those 2 or 3 questions: What are you learning about printing (as a process)? Where do you see its creative potential? And what did you learn about photography?  2) Continue the printing. Select photographs that you would like to print. These can be images from our class (remember, the 10 images which you arranged as a narrative), the drawings/paintings you did on your tablet/computer/phone, or the scans. Use the paper I’ve handed out in class. And bring 10 select prints to our next class so we can share the outcome. Put some attention into this in order to make meaningful observations. 3) Create a dedicated lesson plan for students/children that allows for them to explore printing creatively. 4) Create a dedicated lesson plan for students/children that allows for them to explore scanning creatively.

Homework 7

1) Produce a number of 12 scans with 3 interesting materials or material groups. Let your creativity be your guide. Publish your scans on the blog one image after the next. Add a paragraph of description reflecting the specific outcome and your choices.  2) Create a blog post in which you reflect on the medium of scanning as such: think of our discussion in class, record your experiences, describe what scanning can do for an artist, how it can serve as a bridge between photography, traditional printing techniques, and digital printing. As you compare scanning to traditional printing techniques; visit the printing studio, think of a photography etc. to make additional comparisons. 3) Go back to your blog and think about what you wouldl ike to spend more time with. Choose carefully. - Do it!

Open Studios Elizabeth Foundation

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Annual Open Studios

Thursday, October 18, 6-10 pm (opening reception)

Friday, October 19, 6-9 pm

Saturday, October 20, 1-6 pm

Open Studios 2012 is an annual event of the EFA Studio Program that invites the public to come explore and interact with our vibrant and diverse community of 76 contemporary artists. 

EFA artists work in a wide range of media and artistic sensibilities, offering a significant slice of contemporary art culture. Rarely can the public visit so many internationally recognized artists working under one roof in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. 

The Elizabeth Foundation is located:

323 West 39th Street (btwn 8/9 Ave)

New York NY 10018

For additional information:

http://www.efanyc.org/open-studios?utm_source=OPEN+STUDIO+2012+e-vite&utm_campaign=Open+Studios+2012&utm_medium=email

Homework 6

1) After listening to your peers and their approaches with their image; would you want to alter/redo/change some of your ideas now? If so, feel free to do so; indicate potential changes on your blog. 2) Homework #5 had you come up with ideas about what you can do with your image creatively. Realize one of them and bring the output to our next class or put it up on your blog. If your idea is not feasible in the amount of time, choose another one; stay within reason. 3) We began in class to create an interesting narrative by using your photograph as a starting point and adding 9 images from the web. As you tell your story, don’t use additional captions or titles; have the images speak for themselves. Arrange your images and upload them to a pinterest board or on your blog in the order you seem fit. If you haven't already, finish this assignment. Add a few sentences about this experience and what you were trying to achieve or were this assignment got you on your blog. 4) Think about photography for a little bit and about its materiality and the process of taking a picture. Make 3 connections to children. (I skipped the photographic lesson plan as I don't want to ask too much from you). 5) Research 1 artist (2 if you signed up for 3 credits) who works with photography creatively and put up a blog post. 6) Research 1 artist (2 if you signed up for 3 credits) who works with scanners/scanography creatively and make it an entry on your blog. 7) Please select any material or group of material of your choice that you would like to work with as we embark on exploring the scanners. Due to their limited size, don't bring materials that wouldn't fit...

Art.sy a Genome Project for the World of Art

Interesting New York Times article about a new site that is the Pandora of the art world, a way to explore art. My favorite line from the article: Until now, there was no automated guidance for art lovers seeking discoveries online — no “If you like Jackson Pollock’s ‘No. 1,’ you may also enjoy Mark Rothko’s ‘No. 18.’ ”

Genome Project for the World of Art

A SUPER COOL ART/DESIGN/NEW MEDIA BLOG

http://www.lostateminor.com/

Online Readings- regarding art and art documentation

 "Presence" in Absentia: Experiencing Performance as Documentation
Author(s): Amelia Jones
Source: Art Journal, Vol. 56, No. 4, Performance Art: (Some) Theory and (Selected) Practice at
the End of This Century (Winter, 1997), pp. 11-18

HERE THE LINK:
http://art.usf.edu/File_Uploads/Presence.pdfhttp://art.usf.edu/File_Uploads/Presence.pdf


Art in the Age of Biopolitics: From Artwork to Art Documentation
by Boris Groys (translation: Steven Lindberg)
art, documentary, Benjamin, biopolitics
from the Catalogue of the Documenta 11 (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2002), pp 108-114.

HERE'S THE LINK TO THE READING!
http://www.ranadasgupta.com/notes.asp?note_id=34 


THE PERFORMATIVITY OF PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTATION
Philip Auslander

THE LINK:
http://lmc.gatech.edu/~auslander/publications/28.3auslander.pdf

Homework 5

1) Post the picture you took in class on your blog; write a paragraph that tells the story of this picture (what have you noticed that made you take this picture?). 2) Come up with 4 ideas (2 for those who signed up for 2 credits, 4 for those who take this course for 3 credits) where you would like to go with this picture creatively and write them down so you can share your ideas in our next session. 3) Research 1-2 artists (2 if you take this course for 3 credits) who work with documentation as an artistic process. 4) Following Eileen's introduction to Pinterest, open a pinterest account (http://pinterest.com), use either your regular email or a throw-away email (if you feel more comfortable); play a bit with the template; we will use pinterest in one of our next assignments. If you need help with this, please have a look at the video tutorial with Eileen's slides right below this blog entry). 5) If you have not done this already: add your comment/statement to the text on pbwiki. Revise it. Make it one big collaborative text/statement. Having said that: those who are running behind with homework, please do catch up; it will help you and free you for the upcoming sessions. 

Pinterest tutorial (Eileen B)

Homework 4

1) Create at least 1 drawing and 1 painting on either one or two of those devices: a computer, a tablet, and/or a smartphone; using a keyboard, your fingers, or a stylus. Put some time into this and see how far you can get to make this a creative outlet. 

2) In order to investigate the creative abilities of new media and new media technologies, we will work on a number of actions throughout the semester. Action #1 was to bring a piece of technology into the classroom. Action #2 is to document something. This something can be a creative process, an installation, an artistic practice, or an art object; try to stay with something that’s related to the arts. The documentation can be done in whichever way as long as you use a piece of technology, be it a camera, a recorder, or whatever comes to your mind. By asking you to document it, I want us to focus on the difference between creative practice and documentation. Bring your results to the next class or just add them to your blog.

For next Wednesday: please bring a digital camera with you since we will be starting to do a photographic assignment.

Suggestion

Here is an interesting event, tomorrow night, 9/27, at 7pm, a the new museum.
Hope one of you guys gets to go and can report, since I have class...

Panel Discussion: “What’s Wrong with Technological Art?”

In 1969, Robert Smithson wrote to György Kepes, “Technology promises a new kind of art, yet its very program excludes the artist from his own art. The optimism of technical progress results in political despair…. If technology is to have any chance at all, it must become more self-critical. If one wants teamwork he should join the army. A panel called ‘What’s Wrong with Technological Art’ might help.” Responding to Smithson’s call over forty years later, noted scholars, critics, and artists will discuss problems (and possibilities) of art and technology in response to “Ghosts in the Machine.”

Peggy Ahwesh is an artist who works in the fields of experimental film and video. Using a range of approaches, her work elaborates on the aesthetics of 1960s and ’70s American avant-garde film with an investigation of cultural identity and the role of the subject. She is Professor of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College.

Heather Corcoran is Executive Director of Rhizome, a leading organization dedicated to promoting and contextualizing art engaged with technology. Previously, she served as Deputy Director of Film and Video Umbrella in London and as Curator at FACT, the UK’s leading center for new media. Corcoran holds a BFA from Ryerson University in Toronto and an MBA from Imperial College, London.

Judith Rodenbeck is an art historian currently researching the intersections between second-order cybernetics and advanced artistic practices since 1945. Author of Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings (MIT Press, 2011), she teaches modern and contemporary art at Sarah Lawrence College.

Gloria Sutton is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History and New Media in the Art and Design Department at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on the role of film, video, and digital media within visual art’s production, exhibition, and critical reception. These concerns are the subject of her first book, The Experience Machine: Stan VanDerBeek’s “Movie-Drome” and Expanded Cinema Practices (under contract with MIT Press).

Information copied from:

http://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/panel-discussion-what-s-wrong-with-technological-art

Example for ipad drawing

Time lapse movie an ipod touch painting by Seikou Yamaoka.

These are iphone paintings. The two upper one are from Amanda Kavanagh of NYC, who goes by Velvetina on her Flickr site, the lower one from Patricio Villarroel on http://iphonepaintings.com/

Two drawings, the upper from Luis Mendo, untitled scetch; the other one by Jorge Colombo, a portrait of Philip Glass. Check out the article in the New Yorker.

Theo Jansen

Hey everybody! I thought you might like to check out this artist, Theo Jansen. He also has a TED Talk titled "My Creations, a New Form of Life." Has anyone seen this? He creates kinetic sculptures that move along the beach and generate their energy/movement through natural elements. Do you think this type of work could qualify as new media? What is our definition of new media?

Homework 3

1) Go to http://eetiquette.com and pick three select quotes to re-post on your blog. 2) Write a blog entry about the piece of technology which you brought into class and share your reflections/notes from the class. Create a lesson plan for a group of students of your choice. Try to focus this lesson plan on how you could use this tool creatively in an art class. Think from an artistic point of view, not from a technological one. If this seems difficult, describe the difficulties. 3) Strictly Classroom: Following our discussion about the place of new media in an art class, contribute to our wikispace; choose from the 3 pages those which reflect your viewpoint most accurately and add your statements and thoughts. Link: http://newmedianewforms2012fall.pbworks.com/. As these statements develop and evolve, don't be afraid to make edits, to summarize similar arguments etc. 4) Keep your blog as a place where you reflect on your classroom experiences and your work in between. Think about what direction you would like to take our explorations; or go deeper into where we are headed. 5) Here are 3 articles from the times I meant to share with you. Enjoy reading them, they fit so nicely into what we are doing. Article 1: Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction. The constant stream of stimuli offered by new technology poses a profound new challenge to focusing and learning. http://nyti.ms/dbybm3. Article 2: OP-ED COLUMNIST: Silence Is Golden. In an age of computer-generated images, green screens and 3-D glasses, sometimes silence speaks loudest. http://nyti.ms/rTJSNy. Article 3: OPINION: The Joy of Quiet. Trying to escape the constant stream of too much information. http://nyti.ms/u7fIA5.

Homework 2

Homework:  1) Give an account about how you implement technology in your daily practice (blog, 2-3 paragraphs). 2) While having been with your computer/digital device for a while, decide to leave it and turn it off. Find artful ways to exit the online world. Monitor closely your Turn-on/Switch-off experiences and make them be the beginning of a creative experiment. Document your experience on your blog and bring the visual representation of what comes out of this into next class so we can share the outcomes. 3) Research a media art teacher and describe how s/he uses technology/media in his/her art class. 4) Bring a piece of technology into our next class; choose with care. 

Homework 1

Homework: 1) Create an individual blog. 2) Create a post that introduces you and your educational background. Add a few sentences about your experience-level with new media. 3) Post your self-portrait in the sidebar of your own blog. 4) Research a media artist. Write a blog entry about how he/she uses media to create art. Observe carefully and be specific. 5) Research a gallery/museum that focuses on new media and describe their program, the types of media that they employ, and some of their artists. 6) If you decide to keep your blog private, which is recommended, yet not necessary, invite the instructor (using vlogart at gmail dot com) to become a reader of your blog. 7) Add the URL of your blog in the link-list of the class blog (http://newmedianewforms2012fall.blogspot.com). 8) I will sporadically add readings to your homework.

Some general notes: 1) Your blog will serve as your visual journal throughout the semester. You will use it as an archive, as a repository for homework, and as your very own visual journal. Make entries related to our topic along the way; anything that you seem meaningful, be it sketches, drafts, writing, images, videos, links, etc. 2) If you have difficulties with any of these steps, let me know; I am glad to help you and to make myself available either before, during, or after class. Also, please let me know, if you would like my feedback on specific assignments; this is important, so you don't just wait for me to approach you.