Art & Technology

Today, art and technology gives everybody an opportunity to explore the potential of our own innate creativity, because we are provided with vast opportunities and many fields to explore thanks to its constant improvement.

In my future art teacher carrier compared to the reality a few years ago I have the advantage to be able to create art with old and new medias that are readily available thanks to the speed of technology and its efficiency.  

Visions, inspirations have more potential to be manifested because of technology, because we have more tools therefore we have more options.

I personally wanted to stay true to traditional Fine Arts but technology is so appealing that it would be mindless to not give in to all of its promises.

On this writing I would like to emphasize the use of two computer programs/software, which open a window to creativity at a higher level.

Maria Jose Cadiz - Japanese Garden (Sketchup design)

When teaching high school students about perspective and they learn how to create depth through one point or two-point perspective the student is more than ready to start exploring perspective through a program called Sketchup (www.sketchup.com) to create 3D drawings, architecture. (Which has a license grant opportunity for k-12 schools in NJ at no cost)

This program allows you to create a design and surf through it dimensionally from all perspectives.

Maria Jose Cadiz - Japanese Garden (Sketchup design)

Although as a future art teacher I am not expecting that all of my students will have extraordinary artistic skills and I do not want them to have a hard time with programs if that quality doesn’t seem to suit what they could be potentially good at.  

I want them to try, and challenge themselves, but at the same time I want them to find what they would like to do and offer feasible tasks.

 I was also looking at an online service that I can’t wait to try, it is called GoAnimate, This animation program could be used by students to create moving pictures without necessarily being skillful to draw,  (technology works on our favor.)

 GoAnimate offers customized characters, scenes and props.  Students could use this program to create an animation where they combine the artistic aspect of the animation with all the subjects they could choose.  Language art for its context of scripting/storyboard, music if they choose to add to it to the background, math and science if they work on that theme.

Students can already expose themselves to the work that professionals can do. They can play with parameters of an architect, an animator, film maker, mathematician, etc.

The world will need all kinds of minds. Technology and art gives us an opportunity for ART to be seen as it is: INVENTIVE and intellectually stimulating.

Technology and art encourages people to try things out, to see what happens when we try to communicate through visuals and the outcome is not necessarily the purpose but to satisfy the curiosity because creativity learns from mistakes,

Art and technology will help students develop problem solving skills that will defend them in an uncertain future that awaits us.  Art and technology will teach how to DESIGN for a better world.