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Naimah Hassan's 8th grade Performance Art class from The Clinton School worked with teaching artist Matt Bakkom to explore Bruce Nauman's use of the camera in his multi-projection video installation, Mapping the Studio I (Fat chance John Cage), as both a documentary and a creative tool that can help us understand the process of our work and the environments which we inhabit. For the project, Ms. Hassan wrote the script and the students acted in the piece and shot the images.
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Melissa Moskowitz's 8th grade Humanities class from the School of the Future worked with teaching artist Julianne Swartz to create a large scale sculpture that transmits personal texts written and performed by each student. Conceived as a "speaking" piece, Monument to a Better Society draws on the conceptual elements of Gilberto Zorio's Microphonia.
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Yensen Sierra's 8th grade Spanish class from the Salk School for Science worked with teaching artist Connie Walsh (assisted by Julie Stapen) to film a video time capsule which reflects on Roni Horn's exhibition and the ways we discern and display identity. Each student has contributed to the project both an object and a description of another student's object, which was anonymously passed to him or her to contextualize through visual analysis. Texts in Spanish explaining each object accompanies the video.
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Ianthe Jackson's 8th grade Math class from The School for the Physical City worked with teaching artist Janet Cohen (assisted by Susan Rowe Harrison) to create drawings in their journals which demonstrate an understanding of the charting and diagramming in Alfred Jensen's paintings, currently on view in the exhibition Concordance. The students then applied similar techniques to their own environments, mapping and charting familiar spaces and events, including their classroom, the gym, and student basketball games.
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Amir Bakhari's 9th grade Art class from the High School for Environmental Studies worked with teaching artist Steve Goss to develop a general foundation in web art by examining Dia's online series of artist web projects. The students specifically studied Shimabuku's screen saver Moon Rabbit. Using Photoshop, the students then created their own artworks in the form of downloadable desktops.
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Christina Lappi's 8th grade Spanish class from the Manhattan Academy of Technology worked with teaching artist Stephen Vitiello (assisted by Elana Berkowitz) to investigate sound as a key element of both contemporary installation and poetry. Reflecting on their study of the work of Caribbean poet Luis Lloréns Torres, Vida Criolla and of Gilberto Zorio's sound installation Microfonia, the students have used Pro Tools, a sound design computer program, to compose in Spanish their own poems into sound pieces. A booklet of their poems accompanies the pieces.
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Andrea Boxer's 8th grade Humanities class worked with teaching artist Martine Kaczynski to sculpt masks of animal inspired imagery worn by each student in the photos which then became the subjects for word associations. Through this multi-layered project, the class delved into the relationship between word and image which they investigated in Roni Horn's current exhibition.
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Andrea Boxer's 8th grade Humanities class worked with teaching artist Martine Kaczynski to sculpt masks of animal inspired imagery worn by each student in the photos which then became the subjects for word associations. Through this multi-layered project, the class delved into the relationship between word and image which they investigated in Roni Horn's current exhibition.
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