https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09 Playing, creating and expressing ideas at the intersection of art, making and computer science. Want to open this padlet on your computer? http://bit.ly/SurrealistFL en-us 2020-10-02 14:43:16 UTC 2023-06-06 08:54:37 UTC hello@padlet.com angiulina1984 https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/797855026 Participants play by taking turns drawing sections of a body on a sheet of paper, folded to hide each individual contribution. The first player adds a head—then, without knowing what that head looks like, the next artist adds a torso, and so on.
Once the sketching is done take 10/15 minutes to showcase all the creatures and discuss about  co-authorship,
collaboration, and reusing and remixing work.
You can use some of the reflection prompt from the Creative Computing Guide by Creative Computing Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.]]> 2020-10-02 14:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/797855026 angiulina1984 https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/797862283 The Dada movement was a form of activist or protest art. Using a range of materials and techniques the art was very much an expression of political sensibilities. Collage and photomontage was a form of expression that captured the notions of assemblage, rework, and the transformation of imagery and text from mass media. The appropriation of existing images or objects and to recontextualize their meaning is an artistic strategy used by many artists.
Here is a "Very Brief " history of activist art and a starting place for discussion and further research.]]> 2020-10-02 14:47:59 UTC https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/797862283 angiulina1984 https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/797864760 Computational Surrealism is a workshop aimed to experiment with making and programming as tools to address political, environmental or social issues and express ideas through art.
The starting point is the historical connection between the Surrealist movement and Activist art and its potential for the design of interdisciplinary educational experiences.
The  typical setting for the workshop starts with participants playing a surrealist sketching game, “Exquisite Corpse” where singular sketches are assembled  as a piece of collective creative work (a “Corpse”). 
Each "corp" can be enhanced into an artwork that represents an activist goal by using some Surrealist Art technique (cutout, collage, frottage) and by also creating vectorial drawing and cutting them with a vinyl cutter machine. The micro:bit and some actuators (LEDs, servo-motors) are used to give the artwork action and interactivity.

]]> 2020-10-02 14:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/797864760 angiulina1984 https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/797866958 Now that you have a lot of silly, comical, grotesque creatures invite your students to gather in small groups (3/4) and choose one creature that inspire them.
Each group will work in inventing a character for the creature, including a social justice/environmental/political cause the creature is committed to.
They can use the "creature card" template to brainstorm some ideas.
Once the character is defined students can implement the sketch and transform it into an interactive masterpiece!]]> 2020-10-02 14:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/797866958 angiulina1984 https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/797869518 2020-10-02 14:49:43 UTC https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/797869518 angiulina1984 https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/800657994 You can try the Exquisite Corpse game RIGHT NOW!!
Click on the link and find a slide where there's no one else already drawing on.
Create your sketch: you can either use the "free hand" tool or the "shapes" tool but please remember to draw some "connectors" so to help next player understand where to start drawing!
When you've done sketching please cover you drawing with a grey square (as you can see in the first slide) so to hide your part for next player.]]> 2020-10-04 09:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/800657994 angiulina1984 https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/803096330 Use this template to brainstorm ideas about the creatures and help students defining the character.]]> 2020-10-05 14:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/803096330 angiulina1984 https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/804682911 Medieval bestiary
Pokemon cards
Codex Seraphinianus]]> 2020-10-05 20:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/804682911 angiulina1984 https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/804730903 We chose to use the micro:bit because it's cheap and it provides a good compromise between low floor (easy step-in), wide walls (variety of possible applications) and high ceilings (possibility to do complex things).
It's pretty easy to connect an LED or a servomotor to a micro:bit,.
Depending from participant's age you can make them program the Micro:bit with MakeCode (its own block-based programming language), Scratch, Micropython, Python and Javascript.
You can find some Micro:bit resources here and here and here]]> 2020-10-05 20:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/804730903 angiulina1984 https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/816857359 In our experience we found very useful to  show a wide variety of examples of the expected outcome.
Clearly brief participants with all the creative possibilities they have both in term of techniques than in terms of making and computation. Demos are also very useful, if students aren't already familiar with the techniques, or with the micro:bit,;
give them time to play , tinker and explore the technique or the technology before applying it in their interactive masterpieces.]]> 2020-10-09 14:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/816857359 angiulina1984 https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/817042223 2020-10-09 15:18:11 UTC https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/817042223 angiulina1984 https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/817049710 "Many avant-garde artists, from the earliest days of modernism to contemporary postmodernism, use collage to question the traditional role of the artist. By using found, often mass-produced, images and objects that the artists themselves don't make, collage undermines the traditional importance placed on the presence of the artist's hand in an original work of art. Additionally, often relying on chance to create compositions, many artists use collage to subvert the importance placed on the artist's creative genius in composing works."
from: https://www.theartstory.org/definition/collage/

]]> 2020-10-09 15:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/817049710 angiulina1984 https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/817099562 We suggest you to cut the sketch's shape and glue it on black canvases.
Each group will personalize the artwork by adding details that helps understand the story of the character and adding some interactive features (sound, light, movement) using a microcontroller.
Details can be made by:
- applying some surrealists techniques like collage, cutout and frottage
- designing in Inkscape and cutting with a vinyl cutter
- using pipe-cleaners and other craft materials
- following your own inspiration!!]]> 2020-10-09 15:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/817099562 trudzitis https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/817762268 Another option for creating and generating shapes and drawings to add to the collages is a Silhouette cutter. Using the Design Studio software, you can draw and cut characters or shapes for your Creature. Here is an Instructables tutorial to get you started.]]> 2020-10-09 18:52:00 UTC https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/817762268 angiulina1984 https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/818783251 Once all the masterpieces are ready, let each group present and explain their artwork to the rest of the class and, if it's possible, to a wider audience,.
The best would be to organize an exhibition of their artwork so that they can feel that their work is taken very seriously and that their ideas matters.]]> 2020-10-10 17:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/angiulina1984/1pgis32t7eoevb09/wish/818783251