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Open Toolkits

Open Toolkits

OERs composed by MA Contemporary Art Theory Students

Reading Time: 2 minutesEvent profile This BarCamp is designed to allow students to experience the whole process of social media content creation and improve their creative thinking and teamwork skills. In this fast-paced 20-minute event, students will be divided into teams of two, each responsible for the creation of social media posts on different topics, including copywriting and […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIntroduction: This open toolkit differs from traditional interview formats, such as specific topics, complete with outlines. This open toolkit aims to improve problems such as the fact that the interviewee may not be candid enough during the interview even if he/she is not lying. We will conduct the entire process online plus offline anonymously. Frame: […]

Social Soul - Lauren Mccarthy

Reading Time: 4 minutesTo begin with, please divide into small groups of 2-3 people. Step 1 Each member within the group, please select 1-2 contemporary artworks related to digital identity from below and take a few notes here. You have 4 minutes for this activity. 1. “Selfie Harm” by Rankin: This is a series of photos created by […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes♥ MY DAYS ♡ – Create your Collage Art (Scrapbooks) – Cookie Chen   ln this workshop we will find all kinds of beauty in everyday life. We will make a small handmade booklet using simple materials to explore the theme – ‘My Days.’ ♢ About Cookie’s Workshop  “I hope you can be good at finding […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes  In this day and age, everyone has a lot of cluttered photos in their phone albums. You might snap a photo and then forget it in the album, taking up storage space on your phone. These pictures are side slices of life. Why not make a zine of these photos to tell your story? This Toolkit […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Image of the City for World Intervention What creation shall you conjure? Ta-da! Just give that button a cheeky little click and voila! Create an explanatory video for you Embark on a six-fold odyssey with the Global Hacking Plan Level One– FINDING A SPECTACLE(1MIN) Two ways:1) Go out and take a picture. 2) Find […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat is a “Label in Exhibition”?  🏷 (3 minutes)   When we are in an exhibition, what are we viewing? Artworks Theme of Exhibition Artist’s Life …… The label is what could carry these contents.   So, what are the basic elements of an exhibition label? After reading a label introducing a label, let’s come to […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesIntroduction:     In our daily lives, people often take photos of things they like or that touch their emotions, but at the same time, some things are not captured in photos. My Open Toolkit encourages learners to look back at previously taken photographs to remember the things that were not captured in the photographs […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesWelcome to “Light of Imagination”! Embark on a marvelous digital art adventure, traversing through the artistic universe of Baldessari and experiencing the unique charm of his dot portraits. To kick things off, we’ll delve into the essence of pointillism from the 1980s, starting with the classic works where the artist becomes the “dotter.” Observe, record, […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesMost of the time, it seems that we are far from death or unwilling to talk about it, yet death is a “required course” in everyone’s life. No one, however, teaches us about this “course.” At some point in the future, we will inevitably encounter it, we cannot avoid it. Perhaps the best way to […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesI Meme Welcome to I Meme, your passport to the vibrant world of internet humor! In this interactive journey, we’ll explore the art of collecting, creating, understanding, and using memes—those bite-sized nuggets of cultural commentary that have become integral to our online interactions, and the process of engaging with them points to possible ways of […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes“Embrace & Release: The Consent” encourages individuals to list what they wish to set as personal boundaries, empowering them to assertively define their limits. The aim of this toolkit is to educate learners about the concept of consent, and to empower individuals to set clear and healthy boundaries in personal and social interactions. Content: Embrace: […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes*** Please turn on the sound. 01 Recording / Select 🔊 5 mins recommended What we need:some human voice recordings and some recordings without human voice. The Requirement:At least one of each ↑;At least 5s each;they must be audio files. It could be: Recording of yourself or someone else speaking (copyrighted) / Copyrighted music with human […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIntroduction: This is a toolkit designed for the transformation of old clothes, you can make old clothes power up and create a unique piece of life artwork by simply sewing, gluing, tearing and any other way you like. Unleash your creativity while doing it for the environment and sustainability and practices.   Step: Part 1: Introduce […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroduction: Overview: This Open Toolkit stimulates participants’ creativity and improves their craft skills and shape control. Create animals from paper-based materials and different craft designs such as collage, folding, and paper cutting.   Goals:  1、This Open Toolkit will stimulate participants’ creativity and develop their manual skills and modeling control. 2、Improve your papercraft skills and experience […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSet featured image by following this link Empower “Vitality”: A leaf of happiness Summary: This is a light-hearted and lovely art healing project, which aims to encourage participants to imagine and feel the “life force” through creative work.   Human beings are often shocked by the life force they feel without realising it, it’s human […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesWelcome to the toolkit called Explore Yourself! Think about a question If you are an artist, how can you create artwork with your hands? Let’s create now 1 Think about the question.(10s) 2 Read the introduction of the toolkit and learn the important role of hands in art practices. (30s) Our ancestors made representations of […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesIntroduction: The artist’s personal studio is a personalized and private space where inspiration and artistic creation can be achieved. Participants in this toolkit can think of themselves as an artist, designing a working studio for themselves, and creating in the form of abstract art. Perhaps it is not just an art space, but a small world […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis toolkit uses origami, a traditional Japanese cultural medium, to create artworks. Creation in origami relies largely on a few existing basic forms.  The basic form of the crane is the one used in the process of folding origami cranes, but the basic form of the crane is also used to fold birds, to fold […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesRoll the dice, get creative and unleash your artistic journey with your companion, each stroke will influence what your next whimsical masterpiece will turn out to be. What do you need? a table for sit around🪑, dice (6 sided)🎲, suitable sized paper📃, some pens🖍️🖊️🖌️   What are you going to do? Embrace the randomness! Each […]

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