From PlayAroundWiki

Playaround workshop is hold by NCTU and ITRI in the summer of year 2008. We invite a professor and many digital media artists from England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Taiwan to stimulate participants' creativities. This workshop consists of puredata, arduino, floss art and physical computing and play around the creativity with Taiwan young students. Through the popular interactive media, the students can create prototypes of combination of technology and art.

Dimensions

- Creativity is fun, we play and stimulate new ideas to recreate possible prototype.

- Interdisciplinary cooperation between language of art and technology.

- Invited International artists, programmers and professions to organise hand-on workshop and to teach practical aspects of popular new media.

- To cultivate young creators with an international view and practices. At the end of workshop, their works would have opportunities to exhibit in Taiwan, Hong Kong and France.

Study objectives

- Student would participate creative and stimulative workshop.

- Student would be familiar with FLOSS + ART

- Student would learn tools of interactive media, for example, puredata,physical computing,arduino.

- An interdisciplinary environment with mixed groups of students.

- Student and artist would create, perform and work together.

- Student should realise a prototype of their creativies.

- Student would learn about the process of presenting and exhibiting their work to public.

incubating......