Microbit Experimentation

Materials for Fabric Painting

Material planning: multi-purpose pen markers will be used to draw/paint onto the soft sculptures - I will use various types of textile - cotton, polyester, stretched, and cut them into various organic shapes that simulates shapes of the paint  marks - splash, drip, drop, stroke, dry stroke, puddle... etc. Then, I will sew two pieces together with filling/stuffing materials inside. They will be hung from the ceiling with a string. A touch/distance sensor is installed within with a buzzer, when they are touched, they will shake and make sounds. 

Studio: Creative Technology Ideas

IDEAS!

1) 3-D printed rain drop Idea Droplets that can be opened into various idea strips - that can be exchanged with others by writing the idea on a provided strip
2) Ninja Flex Room Divider that beautifies the space and blocks away messiness
3) Mystery multifunctional storage step stools that is laser cut into various geometric and organic shapes; and contains various materials for students to tinker and explore 
4) Art learning puzzles that produces sounds when put in various board areas (beep for correct, bah for incorrect)
5) CNC molded donut  (or various shapes) in a large amount - for gluing together to form various abstract motion sculptures 
6) Pop art related: various Digitally sewed Hello Kitty Icons onto large sheets of fabric (translucent and opaque)
7) Digital embroidery dollar bills to be given or exchange with people and students as incentives to motivate student learning. 
8) 3-D printed Portable lighting system for dark classrooms
9) 3-D printed or laser cut expandable stress relief box book to relief emotional stress in classrooms
10) Foam Seating mats for long-hour study

11) Fabric stuffings that hang in a space: each one is laser cut with a painting stroke concept: a drop, a splash, a pour, a puddle, a stroke. Each one makes a sound of the corresponding stroke, and when children or people walk pass by, the object would shake or drop or make different movements.

Accelerometer - built into microcontroller
or hook up with a speaker with a buzzer.  
Sound effects

- Speaker output that need sound effect - need something to record that sound effect on.

12) Tree trunk storage stool with light bulb 

13) 3-D printed light structure - constructed abstract patterns 

Reference Images for Art Pedagogical Stools

Project 1: I plan to make laser cut art pedagogical stools with various artist's iconic work image on a round wooden plank. It will be glued onto a ready-made Ikea stool (below link) - to teach art history to 5-8th graders. 

I will change the found images on Illustrator into a Vector image so that they are clean. For Kusama's dot design, the yellow dots will become white so they are not etched. 

Project 2:  I plan to transform the step stools into mystery storage bins for my 5th grade students to enhance learning (attached MOMA educational lab pictures as inspiration). The mystery bins will be made using MakerCase.com. Various materials will be assemblaged onto the bin to reflect tactility and invite viewers to.

Project 1 IDEA

                                                                   Pedagogical Stools reference:

Inspirational Images for laser cutting on stools:

1) Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917)
Gray scale image

2) Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43)

3) Yayoyi Kusama's Dot Painting

4) Damien Hirst's  Zinc Sulfate, (2008)

Project 2 IDEA

Mystery Boxes with various materials on top to stimulate students' curiosity:

Material examples: Sand, rock, plastic, lego, video, fabric

Open up that shows various removable creative ideas/prompt:

New media work (could be interactive) inside/outside the stool 

Ideas for Sculpture

Through my work as a teaching artist in various NYC public schools and art learning spaces, I discovered that there are many problems in these spaces that confines creative learning and teaching. Most of the classrooms that I taught are in underserved neighborhoods and have no curriculum brings participant's attention to the idea of space - an essential element in art in conjunction with line, form, color, and composition. Many chairs are treaterous since they are heavy and made of steel, and thus are especially difficult for students to carry and put back up onto the desks after each class. Researchers in both education and ergonomics has proven that there are objects and decorations that are placed in the classroom that enhance or distracts teaching and learning. 

I plan to make/design various art objects that also serve as devices for the art learning space - at the same time possible proposal for schools or any art teachers seeking a more creative learning environment to easily assemble or make. One idea is interactive school stool/chair sculpture for all ages. I will use found wooden and plastic stools/chairs in combination with approximately 1 inch wood/plastic planks to be glued and  that are etched with various laser cut shapes as well as manually carved out with angle grinder and chisels. As an educator who like to give out stickers to encourage learning, the textured or etched surfaces can be used as student's sticker boards. Plastic boards can be served as erasable sketching/note taking boards. 

Initial stool/chair possibility links:

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30178879/?query=BEKV%C3%84M&icid=iba|us|unbxdsuggestion|201811132211556208_1 

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50178411/