13/1 The potential of using technology-infused materials for art making and classrooms

The potential of using technology-infused materials for art making and classrooms

To be honest, I have to say before I  am taking this class, I am not a big fun of new technology artworks, because I don't think that is art, I feel like art is more about a concept, like a painting work or a video work, but combined with some technology ideas I am not really fascinated about it. Also, I am really scared of using technology to my artworks, because I think it is not that safe and I am afraid that I will hurt myself or something, another thing is I am not really good at using computer software, like photoshop, illustrator and etc. So before this class start, I am so worried about myself, I feel like I have no ideas in this class, I can't imagine the rest of my life at TC because I feel like I will make a lot of mistakes in this classroom and maybe make some artworks which are not safe. But when I learned all these new things in Richard's class,  I realized that I was totally wrong. Technology is not a monster, it won't eat me. Moreover, I see so many potentials of using technology for art making and classrooms. I want to share this link first http://www.weiwang-art.com/, this is my website, and you can see a big different with my old works. I remembered this semester in Dr. Burton's class,  she invited two elementary art teachers and their students to have a conversation with us. That night they shared about what they learned in their classroom, I was so surprised, because they are learning about everything, not only about traditional art, but also they learned how to draw something on iPad or Photoshop, a boy shared his thought, he said he is really fascinated on technology, he hope all of art teachers can teach them more about using technology to making art, not just doing color mixing or some traditional artworks. At that time, I realized that we are living in the technology world and especially for kids, they grow up with technology, they need to learn more about technology to design more fabulous technology in the future. Also technology skill it is different with traditional art skill, in traditional art if you want to enhance your art skill, you need to practice for a long time, but technology skill it is different, everything it's already there, you just need to remember the steps of how to making it, just like doing mathematics, I think that is the reason why students feel very confident of using technology to make their artworks.

Personal Learning Objective

1. Build up the concept about New Media and New form.
2. hope I can create more and more new media way to teach my students in the future or doing my own works.
3.Know more and more new media concept artist
4.Visit lot of technology art museum or gallery
5.Compare the differences and similarities between traditional art and technology art.
6. Hope I will be more confidence for teaching in the future.
7.Why people like using media and social media, is that really helpful in our life?
8.Connect to the readings: I hope I can design a new media class for K-12 teaching in the future, also hope my students like this class, it is trying to break the traditional way of teaching art.

How I managed to meet, change, or not meet these goals

First, I think I build up a lot of concept about New Media and New form, for instance, my works in this class, is not only about the technique, I also combined with my Fine Arts background into my artworks, I am exploring the relationship between New Media and Fine Arts, hence I think I did some good works in this class. Moreover, I did some lesson plan for my future students, hope they will like my class. I want to teach them about everything we covered in this class, especially Coding, as I mentioned in my previous assignment, I found a great coding website for kids, it's designed by Disney and the main character is from Frozen, I feel like young child will be involved in this coding class with their favorite animation characters. 

The MetroCAF 2016 gave me a strong impression. MetroCAF is the annual NYC Metropolitan Area College Computer Animation Festival organized by the New York City chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH. Thier works are about animations, but using a new way to work on it. First computer art field is a new media concept because computer lets us know that art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, video game, website, algorithm, performance or gallery installation. The winner of 2016 MetroCAF artwork are more focused on the concept, I can see the relationship between fine arts and computer art world, so I believe this is a new way of making computer art, computer art also could have some deep ideas. 

I think I meet most of my goals, but one thing I need to disagree with myself is, new media is not only on the surface, but also could be deep. Everything is art, doing new media is to break the traditional way of making art, to push artists to a new level. 

Let's take a selfie

On my Blog :
Share my process: 😎 I shared my process on my blog
Explain my outcome: 😎 I explained my outcome on my blog
Linked my vocabulary: 😃I was able to link the vocaublary
Found multiple possibilities: 😐I found some multiple possibilities, but it is more link with fine arts field
I persevered to complete the project successfully:😎I try my best to complete my project successfully and combine with fine arts field in order to found more possiblities  
Eliminate carelessness:😑 I still need to be more careful when I making my artworks