Michaela Anderson – ArtoftheMOOC.org

Sustainability, education, and learning with your hands

After watching the MOOC video with guest presenter Chido Govera, I found myself with an odd question–how do you make sure your efforts have an impact? The immediate response felt like “just go check,” but truly effective actions sometimes have consequences that are hard to quantify or see. I believe the most effective message …

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Sound rooted in space

The concept of “archaeoacoustics” questions sound as a fleeting, temporary thing, and instead thinks of it as a facet of a particular space. This viewing of sound gives way to an interesting question of intention–how does the space’s construction influence the meaning of it’s sound? Above is a specific “sound art” installation called Panopticons. It plays …

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Sustained action and protest

In the Warpwire video for “Organizing Sustained and Sporadic Action,” the concept of protest was discussed, and it raised questions on how a protest may be successful. What makes a protest effective? What gathers people behind a protest’s cause? We can look at a specific trend of protests called “die-in”s, also known as “lie-in”s. They’re …

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Living and the Dead, and the art that connects

It’s not uncommon to feature the dead in artwork, or consider them in artistic writing, or even just hold them in our frequent thoughts. The deaths of loved ones or even just fellow human beings can be tragic events that change the course of the future for those who still live. Yet, in the most …

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Art exhibitions in a new age

In the public video “Cultural Institutions” from the series Activism & Social Movements: Aesthetics, Art History, and Cultural Institutions, art exhibitions were displayed as physical locations–an installation, a museum, a building you walk into. However, this concept of a “physical” location has been challenged. Of course, the internet is nothing new, and artists have already been rushing to …

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Community by force

In the public video “Intentional communities” from the series Fictions, Alternative Structures, and Mock-Institutions, the concept of ‘intentional communities’–communities designed to encourage high degree of social cohesion and teamwork–sparked an idea. What about living environments that would force social cohesion? Namely, the minimal spaces that represent the housing problem in Hong Kong: The Society for Community Organisation (SoCO) released a …

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The power of disappearing

Art traditionally has been considered the works of the great hung in museums for present and future generations. Now, as modernization plays with that idea, more and more artists seeks to break those boundaries and revolutionize what art really is (browse this wiki’s entries for some ideas, especially those involving social action). However, even the …

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Art – How I see it, how you see it

In the public library of videos for Art of the MOOC, specifically the “prompt” videos for the Public Art & Pedagogy: Experimental Pedagogy, the idea of a “mass drawing experiment” was discussed. The process would be a bunch of students submitting, on a uniformly sized canvas, unfinished works, that would promptly be finished by others and …

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