People, Places + Futurism

Students are introduced to expectations in the virtual classroom, the interactive learning interface and meet educators briefly on a one way webcam stream. We introduce Australia as a place of many nations and learn how to pronounce ‘Ngarluma’ and ‘Yindjibarndi’ with culture leader Patrick Churnside. As a group we discuss the naming and renaming of places as a part of our collective history. We download the NEOMAD comic via a file pod to drop everything and read! Then we switch on our visual literacy to examine some digital artworks and make a prediction about time via a poll. With a focus on futurism we engage in a numbers challenge to work out how old we will be in the year the NEOMAD comic was set. We sketch ourselves in the future with annotations and ideas relating to our identity. Revisiting the topic of place we learn about significant sites and their impacts on people and culture. We learn about Murujuga, rock art and auditory mapping as a part of our national story.

On a video conference call via a smartboard or projector digital arts educators beam into the classroom to convert our sketches from the previous session into a digital drawing. A fun interactive step by step introduction to the drawing application presents the magic of short cuts, tool adjustments, drop down menus and digital colour wheels. We finalise our ideas into a finished artwork using an outline layer and colour layer. Workshop concludes with a showcase of digital artworks made at the Digital Lab by young people from Roebourne.

*this is a guided workshop where co-learning is encouraged. No existing knowledge of digital drawing required to participate