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If you’re thinking of making a film you can use the First Byte pages at Calling The Shots to read articles and download resources to help you get your project started.
Animated Exeter
Animated Exeter teachers pack (2.2mb)
This teaching pack contains information compiled by some of our workshop tutors and organisers designed to inspire animation projects that can be tackled in the classroom, after-school clubs or at home.
Becta ‘Ask an Expert’
Animated
Animation is the art of bringing something to life. It can be drawn, you can make a model and move it, you can create it on a computer, or simply animate a series of photographs. Computers have revolutionised the animation process and there is a range of tools available that pupils can explore.
Contact Becta Experts during March and get animated.
An Invitation to contribute to The Embedding ICT in Art and Design Project
The Embedding ICT in Art and Design Project is looking for examples of creative work using ICT at KS 3 and 14-19. We are looking for examples of work across all media in Art and Design education. If you would like to contribute to the development of materials for dissemination to schools nationally please contact Kevin Mathieson with a brief outline of your project and if possible one or two images in jpg format.
email Kevin Mathieson
Useful open source software package
Squeak
Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. To achieve practical performance, a translator produces an equivalent C program whose performance is comparable to commercial Smalltalks.
Other noteworthy aspects of Squeak include
- real-time sound and music synthesis written entirely in Smalltalk
- extensions of BitBlt to handle colour of any depth and anti-aliased image rotation and scaling
- network access support that allows simple construction of servers and other useful facilities
- it runs bit-identical on many platforms (Windows, Mac, Unix, and others)
- a compact object format that typically requires only a single word of overhead per object
- a simple yet efficient incremental garbage collector for 32-bit direct pointers
- efficient bulk-mutation of objects
Squeak is available for free via the Internet. Each release includes platform-independent support for colour, sound, and network access, with complete source code. Originally developed on the Macintosh, members of its user community have since ported it to numerous other platforms including Windows 95 and NT, Windows CE (it runs on the Cassiopeia and the HP320LX), all common flavours of UNIX, Acorn RiscOS, and a bare chip (the Mitsubishi M32R/D).
New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004
Arts Council England have published a new book in association with Cornerhouse Publications which brings together a compendium of snapshots of this most exciting and contemporary of artistic forms: new media art.
Distributed by Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester.
ISBN 0 948797 88 6
Price £15.00
To order a copy direct:
Phone: +44 (0) 161 200 1503
Fax: +44 (0) 161 200 1504
Email: publications@cornerhouse.org
New Audiences
Funded by the Arts Council 'The New Audiences Website’ is one of the largest free resources on developing audiences in the world. It offers a great opportunity to learn from our peers and encourages arts professionals to take advantage of its richness.
School Art: What's in it? Exploring Visual Arts in Secondary School
Based on interviews with 54 teachers in 18 schools and their descriptions of 64 art modules, this book explores the content of the secondary school art curriculum and why it looks the way it does. Commissioned by Arts Council England in association with Tate, it examines the range of approaches taken by different teachers and schools and asks whether there is a place for contemporary art practice.
Author: DOWNING, D. and WATSON, R
Published: 17/11/2004
ISBN: 1 903880 87 4
Price: £10
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