User:Brookhsu

Hello. This is the page of Brook. I am an art student in New Media Arts. --Brookhsu 21:04, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

First brief : questions ... answers ?

At first sight, what is "New Media Arts" to you?
I see films and videos, innovative performance ... But I'm not familiar to it as a genre ... it could be anything really ...

What do you understand in these words? Do we need capital letters?
The future ! I think of lot of my artistic studies : we start with what is traditional, and slowly we move on, and anything you touch and produce is new ... To me that's new medias ! Everyday, the new things being done can be considered new medias ... It's quite comparable to food, fresh food. Drawing I do, because it's new and because it's media : it must be New Media. DO we need capitals ? ... I like them ...

What is the technical specificities of new media arts, what differs from "old medias"?
Nothing differs from old and new medias. Why would they need to be different ? they are both creation. The 'first sight' answer was the 'normalised' answer because of how a school is divided into departments, each with teachers/specialists who teach specific techniques. But I find more and more each day that whether or not I involve myself in a department, such as Painting, I do not only have to study and practice painting in a traditional sense. Art, I notice, is becoming more interdisciplinary within school.

List the arts forms, medias and existing bodies of works that can be qualified so and explain.
I do not know any names.

Is there a separation between what is New Media and Old Media in the Arts ?
Maybe there is; when one wants to define what is new and what is old in the realm of art, it causes the comparison.

What is new media arts functions?
Art functions in everyone's daily life. New is anything that we have not experienced or known before any given moment. Media is the form that our new knowledge is given to us. Breaking this down, I can recognize now how simply new media arts functions.

For yourself, for the society?
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Are New Medias a vision of our everyday future?
...

What does the student of new media arts needs to learn?
A student of new media arts should keep an open mind to what he would like to learn while tending to what he needs to learn. This leaves the most flexible curriculum.

What are the fundamental softwares, cultural references he/she needs to acquire?
I would not know anything about software, that knowledge needs to be introduced to me. But, being a student, I know that the more curious I am to discover the world around me, the more I have to work with. I try to look at the amount I need to acquire as being endless...

Why?
...because it truly is.

How should new media arts be taught?
... I think that the instructor should have a clear idea of what is a basis, a foundation, to start a student off, but, after giving that knowledge to the student, allowing the student to take it in any direction. I also believe that an instructor is not all knowing and should be willing to learn from the students. Give and Take, Push and Pull.

How can Wikiversity bring an interesting approach?
... On a cultural level, there is no matching the possibilities. Here, people from all over the world can meet to create and discuss and learn. Today, I recognize how important the internet and my involvement in its community is towards acquiring a universal knowledge. I believe the Wikiversity is an path towards this goal.

How should the teaching be structured, scheduled, granted?
... I do not know what qualifies someone as a teacher. Really, anyone can be an instructor, but when everyone wants to be a teacher and no one is a student... there is a lack of structure. How these positions are granted are up to the person joining the school. I would hope that people would notice the balance that is needed.

--Brookhsu 22:04, 30 June 2007 (UTC)