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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

  • Type:

    Special Exhibition

  • Grade Levels:

    Grades K–5, Grades 6–8

  • Project Type:

    Digital, Traditional 2D

  • Art Movement:

    Digital Art, Art of the Twenty-first Century

  • Art Content:

    Creative Play, Cross-curricular Connections

  • Geographic Location:

    North America

  • Interdiscplinary Connections:

    Technology, Visual Arts

Adaptable for Grades 3–8

Conceptual Basis

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.

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Installation view of three artworks: one with seven colorful banners hanging from the ceiling, one with a tv screen on a wall and two pieces of AV equipment in front of it, and one with two computers on desks in front of a wall with flower patterned wallpaper and two paintings of Black men

Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art

October 16, 2021–January 16, 2022

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