During the last decade, school programs throughout the nation have experienced a series of transformations due to the need to face emerging challenges in this rapidly changing 21st century.
According to the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, the capacity for creativity and innovation as well as information, media and technology literacy are essential elements for success in future work environments.
Although STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields were at the core of innovation during the last century, in the 21st century the arts have attained a prominent role as a fifth element that makes the STEM combination more powerful: STEAM, where the A stands for arts and design.
Transforming STEM to STEAM, enhances student technology literacy, unlocks creative potential, and fosters learning engagement. Some of the most successful companies in the world, like Apple and Pixar, link their achievements to the marriage between technology and humanities.
In this context, ART & ALGORITHMS seeks to enhance student and teacher understanding of Digital and New Media Art and to stimulate their interest in STEAM and technology-based artistic activities.
Free Field Trips & Educational Activities
ART & ALGORITHMS Digital Arts Festival will bring together contemporary practitioners of digital arts from Europe and across the United States. We invite and encourage field trips from schools which are interested in fostering student’s understanding of STEAM, arts integrated to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).
Teachers that want to introduce new experiences in the field of digital arts into their programs are invited to participate in guided field trips to the Art & Algorithms Digital Village free of charge on the following days:
• Tuesday, October 6th, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm: Elementary Schools
• Wednesday, October 7th: Elementary , Middle and High Schools
• Thursday, October 8th, 10:30 am- 1:30 pm: Middle and High Schools
• Friday, October 9th, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm: Elementary Schools
Visiting teachers and students will enjoy the following activities and exhibits (follow the links to learn more) as well the exclusive opportunity to interact with the participating artists:
• Showing of award-winning International Short Films, specially selected for school age audiences
• Metamorphy: Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt (France)
• Nervous Structure: Annica Cuppetelli & Cristobal Mendoza (USA/Venezuela)
• 3-Phase: Kerstin Larissa Hovland (California)
• In Order To Control: Nota Bene: Burak Golge and Tevfik Gozlukc (Turkey)
• iPad lab with Corliss Blakely
Each activity is within walking distance and lasts 15-20 minutes. For more information on venues and exhibit locations, please visit our Digital Village page.
To inquire about field trips, please contact:
Pablo Remonsellez
Pablo.Remonsellez@artsbrevard.org
Education & Community Arts Manager
Brevard Cultural Alliance
321.690.6817
Curriculum Connections for Teachers
In order to make your visit more beneficial for students, we recommend you review your curriculum standards to find ways to integrate the field trip with your plans.
If, for example, you are an elementary school visual arts teacher, you will find at least three standards and one additional required benchmark that can be met by attending the ART & ALGORITHMS Festival and by discussing its art with your students:
• VA.2.C.1.2 Reflect on and discuss various possible meanings in works of art.
• VA.2.H.2.1 Identify differences or similarities in artworks across time and culture.
• VA.2.H.3.1 Describe connections made between creating with art ideas and creating with information from other content areas.
• MACC.2.G.1.1 Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes. (Sizes are compared directly or visually, not compared by measuring.)
Visit the following links to find more direct connections between ART & ALGORITHMS activities and your curriculum:
Visual Arts: http://www.fldoe.org/bii/Curriculum/Fine_Arts/RACD-VisualArts.asp
Career and Technology Education:
1. Arts, A/V Technology & Communication Curriculum Frameworks http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/dwdframe/art_cluster_frame13.asp
2. Engineering & Technology Education Curriculum Frameworks http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/dwdframe/eng_tech_frame13.asp
3. Information Technology Curriculum Frameworks http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/dwdframe/it_cluster_frame13.asp
If you have any questions on how ART & ALGORITHMS can enrich your programs, please email Pablo Remonsellez at Pablo.Remonsellez@artsbrevard.org or contact your resource teacher.