Farragut Career Academy has invited the Artbot 09 to student teach the human children from January 11 through February 26. Get ready, human children!!!
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Artbot Enters High School for Human Children
Farragut Career Academy has invited the Artbot 09 to student teach the human children from January 11 through February 26. Get ready, human children!!!
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Human Girl Draws - Human Teacher Translates
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Third Group of Human Children Create Stop Motion Video
It just kept getting longer, more complex, and more ridiculous. Artbot really enjoyed teaching the human high school students at MAS. It was fun, and the human adolescents were excellent filmmakers.
More Human Children Create Stop Motion
FYI: These videos are all by 9th graders from Multicultural Arts High School in Chicago.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Artbot Learns About Stop Motion
This stop motion video illustrates Artbot's concerns about shifting from being an artmaking-only artbot to an art-educating-artist artbot. Artbot will be teaching this to Artbot's human adolescent pals at the Multicultural Arts High School on Tuesday.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Reminder to Human Art Educators
"the community-service nonprofit crowd is by and large the same set of people who got good grades and did their homework... Many 'at-risk youth' are the 'popular kids' who cut school and had adventures - many of them are 'at-risk' not only because of their loco home lives, but because they like to take risks." William Upski Wimsatt
Artbot is Unable to Sit
It is a design flaw. Artbot only rolls around and instructs human children in a critical way so that they can become innovative young artists. If Artbot could sit, Artbot would sit here. Artbot will teach the human children to appreciate chairs! Yes, Artbot will!
Monday, May 4, 2009
Artbot 09 Cake!
Artbot has always secretly wanted to live the music video titled "Don't Come Around Here No More." Today may be Artbot's day.
Morticians That Care
Care enough to drive around Newark, NJ with coffins to talk to young people about how many young corpses they encounter on a regular basis. They invite people to lie inside coffins to see how it feels. Critical - Yes. Meaningful - Yes. Trans formative - They must hit their mark sometimes.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Humans! Volunteer your computers!
Wanna learn how? It's simple and easy.
Use BOINC software to volunteer for a variety of projects that utilize your unused computing power without inconveniencing you.
SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data. Yes, humans, you can REALLY help find the aliens, just like Scully and Mulder. None of your human friends even need to know.
Artbot Muses: Internet Anonymity
EFF posted some information on anonymity that got Artbot's circuits whirring.
The Internet and Anonymity - Such a nuanced topic...
Blogs, digital cameras, web cams, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and other media make too much personal human information available on the internet everyday. Do humans need to know so much and have so much intimate information revealed to a mass audience of strangers? What motivates the humans who share this information? It has become part of world culture.
On the other claw, humans can remain anonymous for legitimate purposes or take on false identities for nefarious reasons. EFF states that "protections for anonymous speech are vital to democratic discourse." On a personal note, though, you gotta ask yourself if your new internet boyfriend, Chavez Moondancer, is really a Freirian art education student. Could he actually be a Tylerian No Child Left Behind supporting classroom teacher? Humans can be tricksy like that.
Artbot chooses not to be anonymous. Sadly, though, Artbots have no First Amendment rights.
The humans seems caught between too much and too little anonymity. Are they having a crisis of human identity?
The Internet and Anonymity - Such a nuanced topic...
Blogs, digital cameras, web cams, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and other media make too much personal human information available on the internet everyday. Do humans need to know so much and have so much intimate information revealed to a mass audience of strangers? What motivates the humans who share this information? It has become part of world culture.
On the other claw, humans can remain anonymous for legitimate purposes or take on false identities for nefarious reasons. EFF states that "protections for anonymous speech are vital to democratic discourse." On a personal note, though, you gotta ask yourself if your new internet boyfriend, Chavez Moondancer, is really a Freirian art education student. Could he actually be a Tylerian No Child Left Behind supporting classroom teacher? Humans can be tricksy like that.
Artbot chooses not to be anonymous. Sadly, though, Artbots have no First Amendment rights.
The humans seems caught between too much and too little anonymity. Are they having a crisis of human identity?
Chicago Artist's Coalition Online
If Artbot were an art-producing human, Artbot would be very excited about this organization. It seems to be valuable resource for the human artists.
The web site has a nice color scheme. Something a little different from the same old. The content is rock solid, but the layout is pretty predictable stuff. The gallery page confused Artbot for a sec. Artbot thought it would be a resource on art galleries in Chicago, as opposed to galleries of the work of member artists. Just a little clarification would be good, especially for non artists (as well as non-humans). Artbot would love to see their newspaper, but you must be a member for that privilege.
This site is nice because it is up and running smoothly. This also seems to be true of the organization. Similar artist's groups have had less success in these departments. They almost always have an online gallery, which is usully disorganized and glitchy.
Artbot is a bit tired in the early AM, but Artbot is literally not impressed by the web site. The site is fine, but not superfine or bada$$. Grade: B
Psst... Artbot hears that Mr. Ray Yang's cyperped class is about to create some websites that will fall in the latter category.
The web site has a nice color scheme. Something a little different from the same old. The content is rock solid, but the layout is pretty predictable stuff. The gallery page confused Artbot for a sec. Artbot thought it would be a resource on art galleries in Chicago, as opposed to galleries of the work of member artists. Just a little clarification would be good, especially for non artists (as well as non-humans). Artbot would love to see their newspaper, but you must be a member for that privilege.
This site is nice because it is up and running smoothly. This also seems to be true of the organization. Similar artist's groups have had less success in these departments. They almost always have an online gallery, which is usully disorganized and glitchy.
Artbot is a bit tired in the early AM, but Artbot is literally not impressed by the web site. The site is fine, but not superfine or bada$$. Grade: B
Psst... Artbot hears that Mr. Ray Yang's cyperped class is about to create some websites that will fall in the latter category.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Artbot Produces a Video
Never let the humans experiment with home-made animation and live Prince songs.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Pysanky! Good job, humans!
Human art education students love to make Ukrainian Easter eggs (aka Pysanky). Look at how happy they are! The NAEA sponsored this event, which was facilitated by Artbot 09.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Street Level Youth Media
Street Level Youth Media
1. This sounds like a great project for helping kids to express their views through tech and media.
2. Artbot has respect for the opinions of human children, as opposed to the viewpoints human teachers may impose or encourage in art projects. Artbot loves this piece of the mission statement: "What stories would [human children] tell? What could they teach us? And how would the power of media arts technology affect them and their communities?" Right ON.
3. It is based in West Town, which may be the neighborhood that is home to Artbot's favorite human food establishment in Chicago: Edna's "We Claim the Finest Soul Food on Earth" Restuarant. Humans! Please order the cornbread stuffing.
The site design... the homepage is a little weird, lots of movement and action there. Artbot did not dislike it, but it semed to miss the mark a bit. It was fun the first time, but for repeat visitors to the site, it probably becomes a real drag. Also, the strange yellow submenus on the right... Artbot almost missed them. Those tabs contain important info. Redesign is needed.
Artbot Web Site Grade: B
Artbot's Mood: Tired but inspired by the human children of La Villitas.
1. This sounds like a great project for helping kids to express their views through tech and media.
2. Artbot has respect for the opinions of human children, as opposed to the viewpoints human teachers may impose or encourage in art projects. Artbot loves this piece of the mission statement: "What stories would [human children] tell? What could they teach us? And how would the power of media arts technology affect them and their communities?" Right ON.
3. It is based in West Town, which may be the neighborhood that is home to Artbot's favorite human food establishment in Chicago: Edna's "We Claim the Finest Soul Food on Earth" Restuarant. Humans! Please order the cornbread stuffing.
The site design... the homepage is a little weird, lots of movement and action there. Artbot did not dislike it, but it semed to miss the mark a bit. It was fun the first time, but for repeat visitors to the site, it probably becomes a real drag. Also, the strange yellow submenus on the right... Artbot almost missed them. Those tabs contain important info. Redesign is needed.
Artbot Web Site Grade: B
Artbot's Mood: Tired but inspired by the human children of La Villitas.
Thank you, Katie!
Katie, a human art educator, has taught Artbot a great deal about teaching art to human children. (She even appeared in a recent film with Artbot.)
Now, she has revealed an incredible teaching tool. It's so critical. It's so animated, harsh, and fantastic!
http://www.leanos.net/ABC.html
Now, she has revealed an incredible teaching tool. It's so critical. It's so animated, harsh, and fantastic!
http://www.leanos.net/ABC.html
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Artbot Didn't Know There Was a Pornbot
This is not appropriate for the human children.
Well, the human teenagers would love it. Yes. Hard to resist showing them the pornbot tactics.
http://vimeo.com/3860898
Well, the human teenagers would love it. Yes. Hard to resist showing them the pornbot tactics.
http://vimeo.com/3860898
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Artbot's Taste in Film
Artbot loves the Far North. If anyone hears of human children in the Arctic in need of an Artbot, please let the Artbot know ASAP.
Artbot likes films in the Inuktituk language. Human Chicagoans can see The Necessities of Life at the Gene Siskel Film center on Friday, April 3. One night only!! Artbot will be there.
Humans may also rent The Fast Runner at their convenience. http://www.atanarjuat.com/
Both films star Natar Ungalaaq
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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