Imitative or Iconoclastic? How Young Children use Ready-Made Images in Digital Art
| Autor: | Mary Wild, Mona Sakr, Vincent Connelly |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Visual Arts and Performing Arts
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) 050301 education Creativity Social semiotics Education Visual arts Lament Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Expression (architecture) Digital art Meaning-making Semiotics 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology 0503 education 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Art & Design Education. 37:41-52 |
| ISSN: | 1476-8062 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jade.12104 |
| Popis: | Digital art-making tends to foreground the inclusion of ready-made images in children’s art. While some lament children’s use of such images, suggesting that they constrain creativity and expression (McLennan, 2007; Szyba, 1999), others have argued that ready-made digital materials offer children the opportunity to create innovative and potentially iconoclastic artefacts through processes of ‘remix’ (Lankshear & Knobel, 2006) and ‘mash-up’ (Lamb, 2007). In order to further this debate, observations are needed to explore the different ways that children use ready-made images in their digital art and the various purposes that these images can serve. Adopting a social semiotic perspective, this paper offers an in-depth examination of five episodes of 4-5 year olds’ digital art-making that collectively demonstrate the diversity of approaches that young children take towards the inclusion of ready-made images in their digital art-making. The paper discusses these findings in relation to suggestions for what adults can do to support children to adopt a playful and critically aware approach to the use of ready-made images in digital art-making. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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