As we spend more and more time in our daily lives with computers, websites, cell phones, television screens, and handheld devices, it is important to shed some light on how the rise of these technologies impacts our place in the world-and how it can offer new possibilities for the creation and experience of art. Designed to stimulate critical thinking about such issues, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University is excited to offer its first distance-learning program this fall-
Rethinking the Digital: New Media Art and the Active Viewer. Linked to the new media art exhibition
Window | Interface currently showing at the Museum and tied to Missouri Grade level Expectations (GLEs) and National Standards in Visual Arts and Technology, this experimental program challenges students, teachers, and schools to rethink ideas of art and learning in the digital age.
Join us live from the exhibition as students interact with Museum educators and curators through real-time, face-to-face videoconference interaction as well as interactive web streaming and television viewing. Collaborating with RoundTrips, the student-centered distance learning project developed by classroom teachers Jim Sturm and Tim Gore for use by classroom teachers, schools and arts organizations can expand the learning experience beyond their walls with innovative and engaging technology. Engaging not only with artworks that use new technologies, but with the computer-based interface involved in distance learning itself, students will be challenged to consider the world of iPhones, Nintendo Wii, virtual reality, and computer screens in a very different way. By including a more in-depth look at selected artworks in the
Window | Interface exhibition, this program provides students an important opportunity to make connections with new media art and the increasing significance of technology in our daily lives.
Learn more about the exhibition at the
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Website.
