Multimedia Arts
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Computer Aided Drawing
The program CAD saves time and work for illustrators, designers and drafters. CAD is suitable for engineers and designers from a variety of industries.
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Simple Incremental Cropping to Create Animation
A tutorial showing how files are prepared by incremental cropping in Photoshop to be imported to Movie Maker for animation.
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Dark Digital Art With Irony by David Ho
Ho uses software programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, Poser and Bryce to express grief, despair, isolation and emotionally disturbing statements.
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Digital Media by Beryl Graham
Beryl Graham explores how the medium digital artists choose inspires their work. This is a complex topic area and one she explains simply but thoroughly.
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John Heartfield's Political Photomontage
John Heartfield pioneered modern photomontage by developing a unique method of appropriating and reusing photographs.
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Performance Art from Futurism to the Present
Rose Lee Goldberg's book about Performance Art spans the Futurist movement to present day. It has been extensively updated since publication more than 20 years.
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Performing the Other – an Article by Rhee
Art historian Jieun Rhee looks at the series of performances by Yoko Ono, within the context created by social, cultural, national and ethnic audience response.
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Mathematical Basis of Computer Art
Creativity in mathematics and computer inspired artistic movements merge as artists inquire into the link between simple, functional form and aesthetics.
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Copy Art Pioneered in Canada
Although it was an international art movement, Canada is recognised for its major contribution to the art form called Copy Art.
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Vermeer and His Use of the Camera Obscura
Steadman discusses speculation and controversy surrounding claims that the great seventeenth-century Dutch artist, Johannes Vermeer, used the camera obscura.
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The Communication Art of Yoko Ono
In the mid -1950s Ono started writing scores, or instructions, in simple words for viewers as performers and as imagination exercises.
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Digital and Video Art by Florence de Mèredieu
de Mèredieu brings together a variety of examples to show that modern hybrid art forms created from music and visual art exist on the borders of many disciplines.
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Teachers Creating Educational Learning Objects
Learning objects are flexible, versatile genre for teachers who would like to make their own resources. Collaborative projects make building an educational library easy.
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The Simplicity of Microsoft Movie Maker Program
Birney, Lichtenberg, and McEvoy talk of the basic simplicity of learning to be a film editor in Microsoft® Windows® Movie Maker Handbook.
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Morph & Chas – Simple Animated Clay Characters
Claymation is an appropriate introduction for beginning animation students. Simple characters like Morph and Chas can provide scope for practicing animation techniques.
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Syntegration a Model of Integration
Multimedia Arts can be a fertile arena within which students learn techniques and working styles inspired by authentic purpose and context.
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How To Make a Digital Stop Motion Film
Mike Brent writes in a handbook answering basic questions about equipment and techniques for aspiring stop motion film animators.
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Art or Painting Called Sand Animation
The magic referred to by de Zandtovenaar when talking of sand art as "sand, light, and magic," is the endless possibilities the innovative medium provides.
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Multimedia – A Combination of Genres
Sets of conventions form as genres. More often than not multimedia arts will cross into multiple genres as they borrow and recombine these conventions.
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Theatre of the Oppressed and its Derivatives
Theatre of the Oppressed, Forum Theatre and Theatre for Living are all types of impromptu performance. The aim of the dramatic technique is to unmask oppression.
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