Thursday, January 30, 2014

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] [Yasmin: bogota columbia

... and here an example of a didatic system available online:

http://primo.io/

a video explaining the method and the product/system:
http://vimeo.com/82620072

C.






2014-01-29 Clarissa Ribeiro <almeida.clarissa@gmail.com>

> Dear colleagues,
>
> Before joining in last October the UCLA Art | Sci program as a
> postdoctoral resident scholar, I was teaching creative computer classes in
> Brazil for Design and Media Arts undergrad students. My observation is
> that, side by side with government educational directions and plans on how
> to introduce coding in schools as part of the normal staff, all around the
> world, the young generation --- the internet born guys and girls --- are
> learning coding online --- exploring practicaly the available content in
> blogs, websites, youtube tutorials ----- the same way they learn a foreign
> lenguage,or how to built a robot with very cheap sensors.
>
> Here a good example on how it is being naturally integrated as a every day
> life knowledge: learning online how to code as we learn how to cook a
> special indian dish, or how to speak a Mandarin....
>
> In the exemple bellow, the aesthetic of the webpages is very similar to
> the ones we can find in the several "learning english" online websites.
>
> classes:
> http://csedweek.org/learn
>
> advertisement:
> http://csedweek.org/
>
> Best,
> C.
>
>
>
>
> 2014-01-29 Paul Fishwick <metaphorz@gmail.com>
>
>
>> >
>> > there is a discussion in america about how to include coding into the
>> > teaching in elementary and
>> > secondary schools- after all teenagers are now developing phone apps-
>> > is programming now
>> > as fundamental as writing ? my computer science colleague paul
>> > fishwick feels that coding is not the fundamental
>> > skill-maybe he will chime in to this discussion- but rather that
>> > conceptual skills like modelling are more important
>>
>> Here is a recent blog article I drafted. Comments welcome from this list.
>> One of the problems we face in Computer Science education is that
>> "seeing" in a way some computer scientists view the world may not
>> be as solid as we would like. The emphasis in coding, while well
>> intentioned, veers away from a more fundamental understanding that
>> is grounded in modeling (my opinion and thrust)
>>
>> http://creative-automata.com/2014/01/29/lighting-the-computational-future/
>>
>> It may be that computer scientists for the most part may not view the
>> world
>> like this, however, since to train for thinking in this manner requires
>> systems
>> thinking/science/engineering. This systems approach is not comprehensively
>> taught in most CS programs. The field a whole contains systems thinking,
>> but
>> I am unsure how most CS programs deal with it. This is a difficult topic
>> and
>> will require more research on how "systems thinking" is taught and where.
>>
>> -p
>>
>>
>> >
>> > in our university the women computer scientists are mobilising through
>> > the new lean-in movement
>> > http://leanin.org/ - karen doore who is being copied and is leading
>> > this effort might like to comment
>> >
>> > thanks for your observation !
>> >
>> > roger malina
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:03 AM, <aslemeur@free.fr> wrote:
>> >> Increible !!
>> >>
>> >> Not all the artists there are men ?
>> >> 3 women on 24, great !!
>> >>
>> >> Anne-Sarah Le Meur
>> >> Artist (didital art), researcher, women
>> >> http://aslemeur.free.fr
>> >>
>> >> roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> a Ã(c)crit :
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> http://www.mac.org.co/index.php/exposiciones/222-analogia-digital-pioneros-de-nuevos-medios.html
>> >>>
>> >>> Digital Analogy is an exhibition that addresses the computer code from
>> >>> an artistic approach. The artists who are taking part in this
>> >>> exhibition have pioneered a number of processes and innovations that
>> >>> we regularly use to communicate, research and share our concerns.
>> >>> Their ideas also have influenced the creation of the interactive
>> >>> interfaces that nowadays are crucial components for our performance.
>> >>> Given the fact that at the time this group of creators came up with
>> >>> these kind of electronic artworks, what we recognise as digital art
>> >>> did not exist. Approximately four decades ago we had the ideas and
>> >>> philosophical frameworks to develop the complex platforms that we have
>> >>> integrated within the diverse range of social networks, but it was
>> >>> thanks to the contributions of these artists to the art community,
>> >>> that their concepts and explorations became the constituent bases of
>> >>> what nowadays is understood as New Media Art.
>> >>>
>> >>> This exhibition explores different discourses such as the artistic,
>> >>> social and computer science to understand the evolution of New Media
>> >>> Art. Looking at these approaches will help us to comprehend some of
>> >>> the philosophical and technological additions, which were brought to
>> >>> the field of art, and subsequently this methodology will enable us to
>> >>> seize the intentional origins of these concepts. For instance thanks
>> >>> to the revolutionary and innovative thinking of pioneers like British
>> >>> Professor Roy Ascot whose theories about "Telematics", it made
>> >>> possible the foundation of such important developments as mobile
>> >>> communication. Also artists like Casey Reas co-creator of Processing
>> >>> that is a programming language, development environment, and online
>> >>> community. Therefore scrutinizing closely these terms trough site
>> >>> specific installations will enable viewers to get familiarise with the
>> >>> origins of some of the intuitive devices that surround us nowadays.
>> >>>
>> >>> Digital Analogy exhibition is characterized by the incorporation of
>> >>> video installations, mapping projections and site-specific
>> >>> interventions; this exhibition layout seeks to rethink concepts such
>> >>> as "progress and development". For this reason this exhibition
>> >>> examines some specific artworks of electronic arts, in the same way as
>> >>> this group of creations will illustrate a fragment of the history of
>> >>> electronic and digital arts, and this initiative will provide Bogotá's
>> >>> audience the outstanding works of the pioneers of New Media, a term
>> >>> that in turn is mediated by the flow of information and its subsequent
>> >>> computer hybridisation.
>> >>>
>> >>> Digital Analogy will allow us to examine closely the formal structures
>> >>> of these works and also aims to generate dialogue concerning the
>> >>> researches that these theories have arisen. In this exhibition the
>> >>> innovation comes from philosophical interpretations of technology and
>> >>> programming codes are seeing as poetical resources rather than being
>> >>> seen only as a practical tools; which in the contemporary world are
>> >>> part of the most advanced forms to distribute knowledge. Working and
>> >>> interacting with other communities has become one of the most
>> >>> important channels to generate knowledge transfer, thus inviting
>> >>> artist who have been working on the foundational bases of these
>> >>> subjects it might allow us to appreciate the backend of New Media Art.
>> >>>
>> >>> Invited artists:
>> >>>
>> >>> Roy Ascott (UK) ///// Artist and theorist
>> >>> Charles Atlas (USA)///// Artist (dance, video and music)
>> >>> Jorn Ebner (Germany) ///// Digital drawings
>> >>> Michael Kargl (Austria) ////// Site-specific installations
>> >>>
>> >>> David Peña ///// (CO) Artist
>> >>> Alberto Lezaca ///// (CO) Artist and Lecturer
>> >>> Carlos Franklin ///// (CO) Artist
>> >>> Roque Rivas ///// (CH) Artist
>> >>>
>> >>> s[edition]
>> >>>
>> >>> Jake & Dinos Chapman (UK) ///// Artists
>> >>> Mat Collishaw (UK) ///// Artist
>> >>> Damien Hirst (UK) ///// Artist
>> >>> Doug Foster (UK) ///// Artist
>> >>> Jenny Holzer (USA) ///// Artist
>> >>> Ryoji Ikeda (JP) ///// Artist
>> >>> Aaron Koblin (USA) ///// Artist and Visualizer
>> >>> Tim Noble & Sue Webster (UK) ///// Artists
>> >>> Angelo Plessas (IT) ///// Artist
>> >>> Matt Pyke (UK) ///// Artist
>> >>> Bill Viola (USA) ///// Artist
>> >>> AES+F (RUS) ///// Artist
>> >>> Casey Reas (USA) ///// Artist
>> >>> Memo Akten (TK) ///// Artist, musician and engineer
>> >>>
>> >>> Curated by: John Angel Rodriguez
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Copyright (c) *|2014|* *|Digital Attila|*, All rights reserved.
>> >>>
>> >>> *|
>> http://www.mac.org.co/index.php/exposiciones/222-analogia-digital-pioneros-de-nuevos-medios.html|*
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