We are Socially Networked installation at the Euphrat Museum of Art

We are Socially Networked was a collaborative installation in the form of a social network diagram by me and my students from Nimitz Elementary School, in Sunnyvale, which was on display April - June 2011, in the Come On Down! Project Area, at the Euphrat Museum of Art at De Anza College in Cupertino. This project took the experience of art-making beyond the classroom’s walls, inviting the youth to look at the intersection of art, technology and life in Silicon Valley. Nimitz Elementary School students worked with me as part of the Euphrat Museum’s acclaimed Arts & Schools Program and the project was connected to my Artist of the Year Award, which I received from the Fine Arts Commission in City of Cupertino, in August 2010.

Students from Nimitz School (3rd – 5th grade) viewed my Mediated Senses series mixed-media prints and talked about its content and visual elements. I printed technological icons and images on a few pages using silkscreen, then the students drew and collaged their own artworks around my hand-printed images; they juxtaposed environmental images, and/or digital technology gadgets, logos, or devices. On exhibition also was two of my artworks from the series, exploring technological gadgets, the Internet and social networking applications and their impact on our environments, behavior, and physical environments.

Below are images from the classroom at Nimitz School and the final installation at the Euphrat Museum of Art: 

My students and I at Nimitz classroom, discussing the project content and reviewing steps

I am showing students one of my artworks from the series

One of students is drawing around my hand-printed image of a radio satellite

Students drawing and collaging their own works

Students around the table, drawing

 

A finished student's work with technological companies logos, and environmental images

A finished student's work with my hand-printed image in the center

another finished drawing

My hand-printed Tesla Tower on the right and a finished student's work on the left, student drew his images around my printed element

Perp. for the installation at the Euphrat Museum of Art

Final installation in the form of a Social Network diagram: students' artworks, paper, printed text and tape on the wall, 6x6 feet

View of the We are Socially Networked installation, my artworks and another installation from another school in the exhibition area at the Euphrat Museum of Art

View of the installation with two of my artworks on display

Cyberland, 2010, silkscreen, monoprint and watercolor on paper

Mechanical Shift, 2010, silkscreen, and watercolor on paper

Aesthetic of Listening, 2010, silkscreen, graphite and watercolor on paper

Some of my artworks that students viewed for this project.