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.