Module 3

Both teachers and students face challenges when advancing schools to the 21^st century way of thinking.  Students today are glued to any technology they can get their hands on.  This is not necessarily a bad thing but it is not the best thing either because students today do not know the potential the online realm has.  When teaching art it is common to keep an online portfolio as a documentation of all your work.  The instant your work is online it is available for all to see.  If you post your work online are you then influencing another artist to work similar to your style or content? One can never be sure who is accessing their footprints online. The amount of data online and freelance artists posting their work also helps students constantly grows their definition of art.  The definition of art is constantly growing and changing where there is often debate over weather something is or isn’t a piece of art.  Individuals have their own concept of this word way beyond what a dictionary would provide.  Art today is not longer divided between disciplines; they are instead combined to form art containing many mediums.  Art such as performance art may be documented but quite possibly may never be reenacted the same way again.  Is this still art? What qualifies this so-called “art” label we are forces to put on objects or occurrences.  The big idea of what is art will never be resolved but that is something unique about being an artist, you must constantly respond and change as the unknown definition of art does.