Friday, July 10, 2009

Revised Visual Arts Workshop

A search for visual understanding

Through the process of collaboration students will explore the visual image in relation to sound, our own imaginations, and technology. By using our own imaginations and memories students will recall memories of sounds in nature or musical numbers that evokes a strong visual connection. Students will appropriate these memories and collaborate to create news works of art that evoke the spirit of these memories. 

By first using traditional means of painting students will work together to create large murals that are representative of the diverse imaginations and memories of students. Students will be asked to develop a theme around each of their pieces. 

Upon completion students will have the chance to appropriate these finished pieces using digital video technology. With this portion of the workshop students will collaborate to create a video piece that is an extension of the 2d piece, while still creating a new work of art with the video technology. 

By the end of the workshop students will: 

*Have experienced art making through means of collaboration
*Gain a stronger understanding of the visual image in relation to other forms of art and life
*Used the visual arts as a means of communicating ideas 
*Used technological means to create new works of art 
*Created art through means of dialogue with fellow students 

In addition a possible collaboration can be arranged between the music students and visual art students. Myself and Leo have discussed having the music students arrange a piece of music that will given to the visual art students to appropriate. The visual art students will create a visual image based off of this musical piece. The same can be done for the music students where the visual art students create an image and the music students appropriate this image. 




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