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Open Toolkits

Open Toolkits

OERs composed by MA Contemporary Art Theory Students

Tag: Contemporary Art

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Emotional collage is a simple and creative exercise that uses the form of collage art to express your inner world by combining different materials and elements. As a means of contemporary art, collage not only breaks through the traditional painting and sculpture, but also provides a very intuitive artistic expression, which is very suitable for emotional healing. […]

  Please take a close look at these two images What details or features do you observe? Have any additional elements been incorporated into them? Let’s continue exploring further! Part I: What is synthetic Cubism? (1 minute)         In the artistic revolution of the 20th century, synthetic cubism became an important turning […]

In this experimental project called “Dancing Colors“, Fabian attached a thin membrane on top of the loud speakers, and put some colored salt on it. Once the music starts playing, the salt starts vibrating and these odd looking sculptures form for just a fraction of a second. By connecting a microphone to the flash trigger, Oefner is able to capture these very brief moments where sound colorfully dances along the surface of the speaker

Introduction   For a long time, our understanding of sound has been “listening” because sound is abstract. Can we hear and see sound at the same time? Interestingly, the answer is yes. In fact, many artists have made related attempts to combine sound with art, allowing the audience to see the shape and color of […]

This toolkit uses iterative drawing as a way to explore what it means to visualise one’s self and document your experience on the page. Materials Required (per person): x4 Large Sheets of Paper Broad Tip Pen The premise of this task is to focus on the self, not the quality of drawing. Drawing is a […]

Ethnographic documentaries teach us that unfamiliar cultures are not far away, just unappreciated. Introducing : What is this: “Becoming an Ethnographic Documentary Observer: From Research Methods to the Screen” is an open toolkit to help learners understand the core research methods of ethnographic documentary research. What is the goal: To master the basic ethnographic research process […]

  Introduction Have you tried the fun of creating with clay? Did you use your fingers or palms? Do you remember the tactile and emotional sensations when you come into contact with clay materials? -We might as well think of this process as a ‘non-verbal’ physical communication between you and the clay material! It can […]

“Happiness itself is a long patience, so I wait for a breeze in the garden to blow my worries away.” Materials🧱 You can choose any one of these: White paper,Pens (preferably in different colors)📄🖊️/ Tablet with drawing software(like Procreate,Sketch up etc.),Capacitive pen💻 Let’s begin! Step 1:Learn about garden types and design principles⛲️ Chinese Garden Deeply […]

This is a colorful, time-lapse photo. The background is colored lines, and the foreground is a blur of moving figures.

Introduction “Weaving Your Emotions” combines colour and weaving to help you explore and express your emotions creatively. Colours are powerful means of emotional expression. German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Theory of Colours (1970)  offers a starting point, emphasising the psychological and emotional impact of colour.1 Artist Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color ([1963] 2013) complements […]

A protest sign held by demonstrators featuring a burning Earth with the text 'Act Now' at the top and 'Stop Climate Change' at the bottom, accompanied by three exclamation marks.

Introduction: Protest art is an artistic practice that expresses social, political, or cultural protest through visual or performative forms. Its goal is to reveal injustice, criticize power, or advocate social change. I will teach you how to create a Protest Art Poster., the deeper meaning of which is to draw more attention to social issues. […]

With the continuous development of the times, art has become more and more diversified. People seem to feel that art is both close and far away from us, and they don’t seem to know much about it. In this toolkit, you don’t need any background knowledge. You can freely use your impression of the artwork […]

This 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 […]

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