CMIS Evaluation Technology Focus

A ‘grab-bag’ of Visual Arts websites linking technology and art.

	ProtoZone Interactives - Art Machines
Interactive artBots that will generate a wide variety of images. For the most part, they’re drawing / painting programs that produce pictures with underlying constraints.

SwarmSketch

SwarmSketch is an ongoing online canvas that explores the possibilities of distributed design by the masses. Each week it randomly chooses a popular search term which becomes the sketch subject for the week. In this way, the collective is sketching what the collective thought was important each week. A new sketch begins after one week, or after the previous sketch reaches one thousand lines, whichever comes first. SwarmSketch was developed by Peter Edmunds as part of an honours project at the University of Canberra.

Renaissance Connection

The Renaissance Connection is an interactive, educational website that uses the Allentown Art Museum’s internationally recognized Samuel H. Kress Collection of Renaissance art as the foundation for teaching math, arts, science, language arts, and social studies. The connections between the visual arts and selected subject areas reveal that Renaissance innovations in many disciplines contributed to contemporary advancements.

[No image available]	Running the numbers
Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.

	The Zoom Quilt
Click and drag up and down with your mouse to zoom in and out.

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…and a couple for exploring Dance and technology.

	MoveMixer
Mix, make and shake. Create a dance of your own.

	Big Room Web Dances
Created by choreographer and web designer, Richard Lord these four dances were created specifically for the web and exist in no other form. Check the ‘Rose by any other name’ link for more information.

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Creating music online has never been easier.

	Tony-b machine

	Jam Studio
Requires registration for a free account. Upgrades to subscription accounts available.

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Media specialists may appreciate our earlier post: Create- Animate!

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DET teachers are able to access The Learning Federation Learning Objects via the DET Portal. [log in required] Useful digital resources in this collection which support programs in the Arts learning area include:

Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence

Creativity: Fifi Colston
Explore Fifis studio and discover how she creates wearable art. Look at aspects such as inspiration, motivation, planning and techniques. Plan a design to communicate a message. Choose objects and materials. Use tools to arrange elements of your design such as size, position and colour. Review and revise your work. Use your design to work with real objects.

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Sonic space: home
Create your own soundscape from noises around a family home. Explore sounds such as voices talking and the hum of a washing machine. Think about the images and atmosphere suggested by these sounds. Arrange the sounds to make a soundscape. Experiment with order, volume, pauses and repetition. Describe possible uses of your soundscape. This activity is one in a series of six activities.

Also: Sonic space: city, Sonic space: travel, Sonic time: our world, Sonic motion: water world

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Found art: city
Explore a city and create a design using objects found in a caf, kiosk, gutter and dumpster bin. Plan a design to communicate a message. Choose objects and materials. Use tools to arrange elements of your design such as size, position and tone. Arrange the materials to create new meanings. Look at aspects such as composition, contrast, juxtaposition, perspective and repetition. Review and revise your work. Describe how you could use your design to work with real objects. This learning object is one in a series of four objects.

Also: Found art: park, Found art: outback, Found art: beach.

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The Arts K-10 Syllabus webpages provide support for teachers as they continue with implementation of the Curriculum Framework. The Arts pages detail syllabus content at each year of schooling and phase of development from kindergarten to year 10 and provide classroom-ready resources to support the teaching of all Arts outcomes.

Learning Area Context List

Dance

Expressive Movements using body, space, time and energy.

Drama

Taking on role and acting out situation.

Media

Communicating with print, film and electronic media.

Music

Sounds and silences making music through body, voice and acoustic and electronic means.

Visual Arts

Visual and tactile experiences in two and three dimensional forms.

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The CMIS Arts Learning Area web page has extensive links to reviewed resources to support Arts teaching and learning programs.

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