Proposal Title
Music, Art, Word! Transmediation brings your classroom to life!
Abstract
Learn about transmediation through a hands-on workshop of creating artwork based upon a musical sampling and then partake in a unique style of "safe space" critique and guided poetry writing inspired by the whole experience. This workshop is ideal for classroom educators and anyone looking to facilitate meaningful, truthful reflections on art and the practice of creating.
This workshop will introduce the concept of transmediation, the process of translating any work into an alternative medium. In this case, participants will translate music into image and then image into word. This is a practice that I often teach in conjunction with arts as a means of promoting literacy skills. Though rich with connections to the arts and literacy, it is also strong in promoting visual literacy, as it creates a safe space to discuss works of art created by the people that you are discussing it with without being too harsh yet still passing meaningful interpretation.
I will begin by introducing transmediation as it pertains to the neo-expressionist painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, who often created work in response to music and embedded his primitive, abstract style painting with a rich symbol system. We will then listen to some pieces of music and create abstracted artworks of our own, focusing on movement, color, and symbol as reactions to the music.
As a means of creating a “safe space” to discuss our reactions to one another’s pieces and experiences, I will conduct a critique which utilizes single words or phrases to describe or relate to each other’s artworks which are anonymously placed on the works of art.
From there, participants will take the words or phrases assigned to their artwork and create poems that either use those words verbatim or are inspired by the words.
I believe that this is a fresh and very open approach for artists to interact with creating art but even more so, and perhaps even more elusively, in responding to their own and other’s artwork in a safe yet honest way.
Start Date
27-3-2019 2:00 PM
End Date
27-3-2019 2:50 PM
Room Number
U-Hall 3-100
Presentation Type
Workshop
Disciplines
Art Education | Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education | Curriculum and Instruction | Disability and Equity in Education | Early Childhood Education | Educational Methods | Elementary Education | Language and Literacy Education | Teacher Education and Professional Development
Music, Art, Word! Transmediation brings your classroom to life!
Learn about transmediation through a hands-on workshop of creating artwork based upon a musical sampling and then partake in a unique style of "safe space" critique and guided poetry writing inspired by the whole experience. This workshop is ideal for classroom educators and anyone looking to facilitate meaningful, truthful reflections on art and the practice of creating.
This workshop will introduce the concept of transmediation, the process of translating any work into an alternative medium. In this case, participants will translate music into image and then image into word. This is a practice that I often teach in conjunction with arts as a means of promoting literacy skills. Though rich with connections to the arts and literacy, it is also strong in promoting visual literacy, as it creates a safe space to discuss works of art created by the people that you are discussing it with without being too harsh yet still passing meaningful interpretation.
I will begin by introducing transmediation as it pertains to the neo-expressionist painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, who often created work in response to music and embedded his primitive, abstract style painting with a rich symbol system. We will then listen to some pieces of music and create abstracted artworks of our own, focusing on movement, color, and symbol as reactions to the music.
As a means of creating a “safe space” to discuss our reactions to one another’s pieces and experiences, I will conduct a critique which utilizes single words or phrases to describe or relate to each other’s artworks which are anonymously placed on the works of art.
From there, participants will take the words or phrases assigned to their artwork and create poems that either use those words verbatim or are inspired by the words.
I believe that this is a fresh and very open approach for artists to interact with creating art but even more so, and perhaps even more elusively, in responding to their own and other’s artwork in a safe yet honest way.
