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Antony
Gormley More video: Banksy and street art Seasonal video project Other digital video resources Copyright-free images from the V&A Carsten Höller Chris Burden |
Mobile
phone art The One Million Masterpiece Boom Music Video Academy Quinn Serif OCR Nationals Level 2 and OCR iMedia Edexcel DiDA |
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| Blind Light Antony Gormley (May 17th - August 19th) | ||||||
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Blind Light, the
first major London exhibition of the work of British sculptor Antony
Gormley, opened at the Hayward Gallery on May 17th . The exhibition
features a series of new site specific works, including a group of
suspended figures created in webs of steel, together with a selection of
works from the last three decades. Blind Light, the artwork itself, is a
brightly lit room-sized glass box filled with vapour. The experience is
disorientating as you gingerly navigate the cold, damp space and the
blinding light, as Gormley explains, " ...is the opposite of
illuminating". The Central London skyline has been transformed by the appearance on rooftops and public walkways around the South Bank of casts of the artist's body for one of the largest UK public art works, called Event Horizon. Four are cast iron, presumably the most accessible sculptures, and 27 are fibreglass. They spread over an area 1.5 kilometres square and all face towards the exhibition space.
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| Pictured above is Gormley's iconic 2005 work Another Place, consisting of 100 iron casts of the artist's body installed along 3 kilometres of Crosby Beach and stretching almost 1 kilometre out to sea. The work was intended as a temporary installation, but will now remain as a permanent feature of the Merseyside coast following huge public support. Perhaps, the London Assembly can be persuaded to give Event Horizon a permanent home too? | ||||||
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Banksy: Street Stencils - A video montage of artworks by subversive UK guerrilla street artist Banksy photographed between 2005 - 2007 in and around the East End of London - Islington, Hackney, Shoreditch, Liverpool Street, Whitechapel, and Hoxton - mixed with quotes from his manifesto. The ephemeral nature of street art was highlighted just last week when it was reported that Hackney council cleaners had jet-washed away two of Banksy's stencils (a young girl wearing a gas mask and a man's face) without even photographing them, only to discover that one of his artworks had just sold at auction at Sotheby's for £100,000. Unlike most graffiti, Banksy's stencils send house prices rocketing in the locality. Recently one of his works, a rat playing with a beach ball under a "No Ball Games" sign turned up on eBay priced at £20,000. Unfortunately, vandals had removed it with an angle grinder from the wall in Paddington, London, where it had been a popular local landmark. The video could be used as a starter to introduce a project on stencil art (further resources to follow shortly). (WMV) | |||||
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Link to the video project page here or via the navigation bar at top left. Click on the main picture to play the movie. | |||||
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Streetwise: boards, bikes and walls - graffiti and youth culture. (WMV) | |||||
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Link to the video project page here or via the navigation bar at top left. Click on the main picture to play the movie. | |||||
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| Video resources have now been organised into a separate section - see the new video tab on all navigation bars - and example movies will be regularly, so check back. | ||||||
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Make a class greetings
video using movie-in-movie techniques in two lessons (one for filming,
one for editing). The project uses Serif MoviePlus as its video
editor, but you could adapt it to your own software and for different
festivals and special occasions. Two different techniques are explained.
This example uses a mask.
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Link to the video project page here or via the navigation bar at top left. Click on the main picture to play the movie (WMV). | |||||
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This second example uses a Transform Envelope to change the dimensions and perspective of the inset movie.
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Link to the video project page here or via the navigation bar at top left. Click on the main picture to play the movie (WMV). | |||||
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Other digital video resources OCR Nationals Unit 23 Creating video (Level 2)
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Serif Europe are about to
publish a free scheme of work that covers all the Assessment Objectives
for the OCR Nationals level 2 qualification in digital video with a
practice Model Assignment and over 40 worksheets and skills tutorials to
support activities. The resources for Unit 03 Digital Imaging have
already been accredited by OCR. Expect Unit 2 Web page creation,
Unit 23 Creating video
and Unit 20 Creating an animation very soon. http://www.serif.com/education Click on the illustration to play Runaway, a sample movie based on a cross-curricular theme and edited with Serif MoviePlus (WMV). |
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Link to the video project
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The Art Newspaper reports
that the V&A is to scrap copyright fees for education and academic
publications in the new year in a move designed to overcome existing
barriers to specialist art publishing and education materials
created by the minefield of copyright laws. The £250,000 earned annually
by the V&A in reproduction fees is offset by huge administrative costs
and the museum argues that it is more effective to give wider access to
images of their collection. Images of 25,000 objects in the V&A will be
available. Hopefully, other galleries and museums will soon follow suit. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=525 |
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The latest imaginative
installation for the Turbine Hall exhibition space at Tate Britain is
Carsten Höller's Test Site. It consists of five sculptural
stainless steel and polycarbonate acrylic slides that spiral down from
different levels with the longest a dizzying drop of 27 metres. The
£300,000 structures are sponsored by Unilever and are free to visitors,
but be prepared to queue for your single ticket. Bags and other objects
are banned because speeds reach 40mph, so I wasn't allowed to film the
descent ... Höller is fascinated by "the visual spectacle
of watching people sliding and the ‘inner spectacle’ experienced by the
sliders themselves, the state of simultaneous delight and anxiety that
you enter as you descend."
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/carstenholler/default.shtm |
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Chris Burden The Flying Steamroller
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Click on the still to play the movie (WMV). |
The Flying Steamroller 2006
is a whimsical sculpture and performance by the American artist Chris
Burden, presented by the South London Gallery where his installation of
Los Angeles lamp posts is currently on show. Counterbalanced by a large
concrete block, the massive yellow steamroller, weighing in at 12 tons,
gains sufficient momentum to lift off and fly around a central pivot for
several minutes. The spectacle confounds expectations and lends a
mystical touch to the former military parade ground outside Chelsea
School of Art, especially when passers-by happen upon it by chance, as I
did.
http://www.southlondongallery.org/docs/exh/exhibition.jsp?id=132 |
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Myartspace |
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The Myartspace website is an innovative project commissioned by Culture Online to enable visitors to a group of three Dorset Museums to become virtual museum curators by using mobile phone technology. Students, for example, can choose their own exhibits, photograph them with their mobile phones, edit the pictures back at school and publish them to the website to share with fellow students, family and friends. As an educator who has long been frustrated by galleries and museums in the UK banning photography, even with obviously amateur quality equipment, I think this is a welcome innovation that will have great potential for teaching and learning. I hope that other venues will soon follow suit. | |||||
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Showcases |
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Would you like to be a part of British Art Show 6 by getting creative with your mobile phone? This site, compiled by artist Goshka Macuga and supported by the Hayward Gallery, offers students the chance to help create a virtual art show by sending in images from their camera phones which they think represent British art now. Selected pictures will be framed and exhibited in a national touring show. | |||||
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Billed as the "world's biggest collaborative art project", the One Million Masterpiece launched in July. The not-for-profit project aims to raise more than £3.5 million for environmental and humanitarian charities, including Oxfam, Save the Children, WWF, Cancer Research and Action Aid. Make your mark on this global canvas with your mouse (or drawing pad) for an entry fee of £3.50 paid to a charity of your choice, The final picture will be printed onto a giant canvas and hung at a major London landmark, and even, rumour has it, hosted by the Tate. It will be unveiled on World Population Day, July 11 2007. Contributors can return to their image throughout the year to edit and update it. | |||||
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Boom Video Academy
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BOOM! Music Video Academy is back for its third year. Even if you missed the 2006 round of free seminars for teachers, you can still get involved by downloading a free competition pack. EMI's selection of copyright free music tracks, which students can work with to create their music videos, includes Gorillaz, Corinne Bailey Rae, The Kooks, Jamie T, Graham Coxon and Captain. These can be downloaded from the Resources section of the website. The Teachers' section has QuickTime movies of past winners, useful help-sheets, templates for CD labels, posters and lots of other resources. There's also a student website. | |||||
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The Fourth Plinth Project Marc Quinn
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Those pigeons that survived the efforts of the Mayor of London to exterminate them have found a new perch: Marc Quinn's sculpture, Alison Lapper Pregnant, which was unveiled in September 2005, is the latest temporary installation on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth. Carved from white Carrera marble, the sculpture is 12 foot (3.6 metres) high and weighs 13 tonnes. The portrait is of disabled artist Alison Lapper. She has called it a "modern tribute to femininity, disability and motherhood" and says, "It puts disability on the map", contrasting her experience of sitting for the portrait with that of having medical photos taken of her as a child. "I didn't have any choice, they were taken from me. I chose to do this, it has been empowering for me and for disabled people." | |||||
Photos RKM |
Use this Flashpoint activity about scale as an interactive lesson starter to introduce a 3D project. |
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Would the work have a greater or lesser impact if it was on a more human scale? Compare it with Mark Wallinger's white marble sculpture of Christ, called Ecco Homo, which occupied the plinth in 1999. There is also a short zipped PowerPoint presentation on the Fourth Plinth project with notes that you could download.
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Marc Quinn believes that
"Alison's statue could represent a new model of female heroism." In this
predominantly masculine arena dedicated to heroes of epic battles and
glorious victories, the Quinn sculpture shifts the focus to a more
personal, female perspective. While challenging conventional
representations of beauty and attitudes to disability, the sculpture
makes ironic allusion to that armless icon of classical female beauty,
the Venus de Milo, and reminds us of neighbouring Nelson's similar
disability.
The Fourth Plinth is located in the north-west corner of Trafalgar Square in front of the National Gallery. Originally designed by Sir Charles Barry and built in 1841 to display an equestrian statue, there were insufficient funds so the plinth remained empty until the last decade.
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Serif Europe
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Serif Europe's website has been remodelled and its Education microsite is now easy to find and to navigate. Browse the many tutorials and curriculum related projects that I have created for them through my consultancy work for mPowerNet at Anglia Ruskin University's Faculty of Education. They cover key stages 2, 3, 4 and 16+ with schemes of work for Edexcel DiDA, OCR iMedia and the new OCR Nationals Level 2 in ICT. Serif will be launching the first three of six schemes of work to cover the new media units on the menu at BETT 2007: Unit 02 Webpage Creation, Unit 03 Digital Imaging and Unit 23 Creating Video. Unit 20 Creating an Animation for the WWW, Unit 21 Creating graphics for WWW and Unit 5 DTP will follow in Spring 2007. In the meantime, call for a free copy of the OCR endorsed support materials for Unit 03 Digital Imaging on 0800 376 6868 or email edusales@serif.co.uk |
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OCR Nationals Level 2 and OCR iMedia OCR Level 2 National Certificate in ICT |
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A video in a video edited with Serif MoviePlus for Unit 23 Creating Video. |
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the OCR
Level 2
National Certificate in ICT places an increased emphasis on creativity
and graphic communication, some units could definitely be of interest to
art and design and graphics teachers, as well as to ICT departments.
Units require either 60 or 30 Guided Learning Hours. Available for first
teaching from September 2006, the National Certificate replaces the
existing
GNVQ
qualification and is the same size/level as 4 GCSEs (A*- C) or GNVQ
Intermediate. The full list of units and some model assignments are
available at:
http://www.ocr.org.uk/units/OCRNationalsinICT(forfirstteachingfromSeptember2006)Level2_units.html
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OCR iMedia |
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The iMedia vocational qualifications have been developed by OCR in
consultation with industry, further education and schools as a route
into careers in the interactive media industry - as future web
designers, graphic artists, multimedia producers, animators, sound
designers and storyboard designers. OCR offers iMedia at Levels 2 (aimed
at learners 14-16) and 3 (aimed at learners aged 19+), with the option
to achieve a certificate or diploma for each level. A certificate
comprises three units, a diploma five and both options include a
mandatory unit, Digital Graphics. Optional units comprise Web Authoring,
Digital Animation, Interactive Multimedia Concepts, Digital Sound,
Digital Video, 2D Game Engines and Game Design. Unit certification gives
learners progressive recognition throughout the course. Opinion is divided with teachers welcoming its innovative approach and lack of requirement to test database or spreadsheet skills, but expressing concerns that it only accesses grade C overall and risks reproducing the failings of GNVQ. |
The Guardian reports that it is being described as "a soft option" by ICT experts (see link below). I was disappointed by the lack of materials - no exemplar tasks have been published yet - and was informed by OCR that current assignments are only available to registered schools, so it's hard to evaluate. I found that the specification for the mandatory unit on Digital Graphics was not particularly comprehensive in its assessment objectives and their underpinning knowledge, skills and understanding, although I liked the fact that students are expected to learn about the basic rules of photographic composition and how digital cameras and scanners work, and not just digital manipulation skills. To find out more visit the links below.
Phil Revell, writing in The Guardian on 7 March 2006, rates DiDA more
highly for its "tougher standards":
Pete Henshaw, reviewing the qualification for SecEd online journal, is
more positive:
Follow the TES Staffroom discussion threads on the topic at:
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Serif has published a free scheme of work for iMedia which has been
accredited by OCR for the mandatory Unit 1 Digital Graphics. It
is available for download from their website and on CD: |
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Edexcel's Diploma in Digital Applications offers a unique opportunity for collaboration between ICT and art departments, allowing e-confident art and design students to develop their creativity in new media and to gain accreditation for their skills through projects that focus on realistic digital design briefs. The diploma is a paperless suite of three qualifications that allow progression from the Award (AIDA), to the Certificate (CiDA), through to the full Diploma (DiDA), which is worth four GCSEs. |
The Graphics module is equivalent to one GCSE and contributes to either the Certificate or Diploma qualifications. For more information, read my article for A.N.D. - the NSEAD quarterly magazine - and visit Edexcel's dedicated website: http://dida.edexcel.org.uk/home/ The 2006 Summative Project Briefs for 2006 at levels 1 and 2 are open until summer 2007. They can be found with accompanying teacher notes at: http://dida.edexcel.org.uk/home/spb/2006-spbs/
An exemplar eportfolio for graphics has recently been published to
support standardization and assessment: |
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My scheme of work with
support materials for DiDA Unit 3 Graphics has been endorsed by Edexcel
and is available to download free from Serif's education website; or
contact them for a free CD-ROM: Pupils can get Serif software for home use at very discounted prices if their school has a site licence: for example, they can order DrawPlus 7, the vector drawing program, at just £10+£3 postage. Parents can phone Ed Sales on 0800 3766868. |
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This Virtual Artroom project
on eportfolios and esketchbooks has useful information relevant to
presenting work in eportfolios for DiDA with examples created with a
range of different types of application. |
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