Technology Resources for the Twenty First Century Artist
Essential Questions:
How can artists use resources on the web to support their artistic ideas and goals?
What new forms of art are being made with technology?
How can we market ourselves as artists and reach a global audience?
How can artists use resources on the web to support their artistic ideas and goals?
What new forms of art are being made with technology?
How can we market ourselves as artists and reach a global audience?
TECHNOLOGY AND ART
The internet has expanded the ways artists can find resources, be inspired, and learn new techniques. It also gives us the capability to market ourselves to potential patrons around the block and throughout the world. This tutorial is just one of thousands that allows self-learners like yourself to succeed.
Technology is a creative tool. As inhabitants of a globalized community, we need to master this tool, stay current with it, and innovate new uses for it. The only limit we have is our imaginations.
In this webquest, you will be exploring the ways that technology has influenced and impacted art throughout history. You will be using technology to create art in ways similar to the art on this site.
Technology Education
There are thousands of videos on the internet that
want to teach you something. And they are free!
Here's an example of a photography lesson: Capturing Movement with a Camera
Green Track: Search for a tutorial on something you would like to learn about or make. List the web address.
Red Track: Use an online tutorial to create a work of art. Combine two or three to make a more original work of art.
Purple Track: Teach us something simple that you know how to do. Sketch a story board, create a power point, or shoot a video tutorial. Do alone or with a partner and put on your website.
What about technology and our school?
Success in your future depends on how well you know and can use technology. We've been watching, reading, and hearing about it. Let's see it in action at Mercury High School.
What did you think? Brainstorm and write down three ideas for class discussion.
What did you think? Brainstorm and write down three ideas for class discussion.
Finally, technology allows the artist to be their own gallery, their own marketer, and their own author. It allows artists to speak to each other across the globe, sharing ideas, and building a better, stronger global community.
Find a website of an artist who is doing a great job of marketing themselves. Share with class the three things they are doing that make their materials work.
Use the best ideas from internet sources and your own ideas to make a list of ten things you can do now to prepare yourself to be a working artist.
Begin a correspondence with an artist in another country. Make a book using an online resource like Blurb.