"I'll show you something!" Pupils communicate video art
imai starts its new school communication project (29 October - 17 December 2008) in co-operation with the Heinrich-Heine-Gesamtschule, Duesseldorf
The imai - inter media art institute invites school pupils to appraise audio visual art works from its collection and to communicate these to like-minded persons. The production and viewing of videos are an integral part of the youth culture of today. Access to art and culture in the form of video is mostly intuitive and develops from viewing habits and technical conditions of having available video camera and recording devices. The project "I'll show you something!" Pupils communicate video art is designed by imai to motivate pupils to appraise audiovisual works in a critical and constructive way.
During the course of the seven week project 11 pupils will under guidance of an art historian be given the opportunity to become familiar with the criteria for the analysis of video art, to put together a selected program of art videos, and then to present this program at the imai premises to their fellow pupils, teachers and parents.
The extension of its communication work to include project work with the senior pupils at high schools and comprehensive schools enables imai to raise the awareness of the younger generation regarding the significance and topicality of video and media art and the necessity of its preservation.
The project has the following key aims:
- to familiarise pupils with aesthetic issues with regard to the art form of video,
- to communicate criteria to the pupils necessary to understand these audiovisual works,
- and thus promote their media competence in dealing with moving images and
- to pass on practical skills enabling them also to communicate the medium of art.
Closing presentation Wednesday, 17 December 2008 at 4 pm at imai
A second project in 2009 for "I'll show you something!" Pupils communicate video art in a secondary school is already planned.
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