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Level Up: Create Your Own Character

Inspired by Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art

Installation view of Saya Woolfalk’s Landscape of Anticipation 2.0, 2021, in the special exhibition Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art at Albright-Knox Northland. Photo: Brenda Bieger for Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Lesson Plan Details

Adaptable for Grades 3–8

Lesson Description

Inspired by the artist Saya Woolfalk and her fictional race of Empathics, students will create their own characters designed to help the world. Their character will star in a short animation created with the recoding feature on a videoconferencing application. This approach to artmaking will have students using technology to share their hopeful works of art.