Art Bots
STEAM Workshop
CCNY
In this workshop, I introduced the Methods and Materials class to my Art Bot lesson plans. The class was divided into teams of 3 and each person on the team was given a job: Scribe, Narrator, or Unboxer. The teams were given boxes of materials and asked to come up with 3 ideas of things they could make with the contents of the box. After sharing their ideas with the group, the teams were introduced to artist Patrick Tresset and his drawing robots through a Google Slides presentation. Finally, I challenged the teams with using the materials to construct a mark making robot. With no preconceived plan given to them, teams combined ideas and experimented with the materials. All efforts were recorded by the Scribe. Learning from trial and error and with nudges from me, each team constructed an Art Bot that was able to make marks on the paper. Taking their unique drawings, each team then brainstormed what they could do next with the picture.