Technology and Art
Marvin Grossman
Anticipating the future: Artists with computer artistic skills will be better prepared for changes in our complex society, whether they design web pages for their company or create paintings or prints for their house.
We are at the beginning of one of the important artistic movements in art history. The computer is an artistic tool - like the paint brush, hammer, chisel and camera. The computer also is a connection to people; it can create and exhibit the work to the world.
Still, there is confusion as to the importance of computer art. We have to remember that the camera was not considered an art form until the late 60's. Acrylic paint was accepted even later.
Art, classroom and technology teachers can work together in a cooperative teaching adventure
We don't know what impact the computer will ultimately have in the history of art but we do know that it will play a momentous role. The beginning of any new art movement is inspiring and being part of the digital art movement promises significant excitement. Most of our students, at any age, are familiar with computers. It only takes a little instruction to help children artistically express themselves using computers.
We as teachers live in a unique time, a time where we can learn as we help our students. Learning together can be an exciting process, one of the most ideal teaching experiences. I have been working on an easy-to-teach elementary computer art curriculum so that art, classroom and technology teachers can work together in a cooperative teaching adventure.
Check out my website, http://www.kidzart.org, to see some of my students' digital work that resulted from these lessons. Then try a few of the beginning lessons. Any questions?
About Me
- Marvin Grossman
- Marvin Grossman has a B.A. Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Miami and a Doctorate from the University of Georgia. Grossman has taught Art Education in the Art Departments of the University of Georgia and the University of South Florida in Tampa. He also has taught in elementary and secondary schools. Recently he had the opportunity to work with young children again, and has spent the last five years as the art teacher at Bay Haven Basics Plus in Sarasota, Florida. As a practicing artist He has exhibited his work in Atlanta ,Miami and Sarasota and currently is very active selling his art via the web. recently retired, and if you would like to contact me with questions or to say hi try....
2 comments:
Kudos to your blog/post. So often we as teachers skip integrating all this new technology into our curriculum.
I'm an Southern California adjunct prof who just wrote a Dummies book. Go figure.
I think the only way we can get art into the classroom these days is to integrate it with history and/or technology.
Thanks Marvin for your gift of a life of teaching and caring, at the same time reflecting, growing and transforming the the practice of art from analog to digital ways for communicating. The gift is in accomplishing this without diminishing the human aspect of the creative process.
On the subject of art and technology I would suggest that the notion of the computer as a tool is somewhat limited in its reach. I tend to think of the computer not as a tool but a place, metaphorically as a garden, a place to grow ideas. In ths context, it is possible to integrate all symbolic language systems into a new conversation. This is a refreshing althernative to schools that separate letter, numbers and visual symbols into to distinct subjects i.e., classes: the first two required, the latter usually elective. The computer can be a place to merge all symbol systems to function interdependently, a rare and wonderful new art practice for living in the now!Your blog is an example of this symbolic integration along with sound.
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