Intro to Electronics for Art Teachers/Artists

Homework #10 (4) Share your experiences, thoughts, notes, learning about the workshop with Deren - Intro to Electronics for Art Teachers/Artists.

UNFORTUNATELY,  I was only able to attend part of the Intro to Electronics for Art Teachers/Artists seminar, yet what I did experience while I was there was inspiring. It was great having the opportunity to meet Deren and be exposed to the type of work she does in her program, it is always beneficial to have the opportunity to learn how others employ different media into art.

Although creating origami is not in my skill set, it was very interesting making and watching my peers create creatures and other 3d objects out of paper. Watching these creatures and objects come to life through the addition of motors and lights was incredible. Just seeing the expressions on all of our faces was priceless, I can only imagine how excited children would be to do an activity like this. Although I definitely appreciated this seminar, if it occurs again, I think it would be more efficient of people attending the seminar brought with them origami pieces they made at home, this would not only shorten the time of the seminar, it would give people who do not have experience with origami the opportunity to experiment on their own at their own pace. This would additionally allocate more time to the remaining projects.

The second project I took part in was experimenting with the positive and negatively charged play-doh. This was an interesting project and I think if there were different colors of the play-doh it could really be interesting in an art classroom. It would be a great collaboration with a science teacher, and if planned well, a project could be arranged to take place while the children are learning about positive and negative charge and its' effect on electricity. Additionally this gave me the idea that it could be a class project, to create a giant christmas tree and giant menorah that light up using the clay and lights. I believe there is a lot of room in school curriculums for projects that combine art and science. They are both very focused on experimenting and a joint project between the two classes could be mutually beneficial.

After being filled in by other class members about what they had experienced during the remainder of the seminar I feel like I really missed out, but thankfully they gave me a pretty detailed overview and I hope to explore drawdio own time!!