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Volume 17, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 1743-5234
  • E-ISSN: 2040-090X

Abstract

This article explores digital material/ism by examining student teachers’ experiences, processes and products with fully immersive virtual reality (VR) as part of visual art education. The students created and painted a virtual world, given the name (‘Greta’s Garden’), using the Google application Tilt Brush. They also applied photogrammetry techniques to scan 3D objects from the real world in order to create 3D models for their VR world. Additionally, they imported 2D photographs and drawings along with applied animated effects to construct their VR world digitally, thereby remixing elements from real life and fantasy. The students were asked open-ended questions to find out how they created art virtually and the results were analysed using Burdea’s VR concepts of immersion, interaction and imagination. Digital material was created intersubjectively and intermedially while it was also remixed with real and imaginary. Various webs of meanings were created, both intertextual and rhizomatic in nature.

Abstrakti

Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan opiskelijoiden virtuaalitodellisuuden (VR) immersiivisiä kokemuksia, prosesseja ja tuotoksia kuvataidekasvatuksessa digitaalisen materiaalin ja materialismin näkökulmasta. Opiskelijat suunnittelivat virtuaalitodellisuudessa käyttäen Googlen Tilt Brush -ohjelmaa. Lisäksi he skannasivat VR-puutarhaansa reaalimaailmasta valitsemiaan 3D-objekteja fotogrammetria-tekniikalla, lisäsivät mukaan 2D-valokuvia ja piirroksia sekä jatkoivat puutarhan 3D-muotoilua, veistämistä ja maalaamista (animaatio)siveltimillä. Gretan puutarha syntyi reaalitodellisuuden ja fantasian kohtaamisista. Avoimilla kysymyksillä selvitettiin, miten opiskelijat toteuttivat VR-taidetta. Tulosten tarkastelussa käytettiin Burdean VR- käsitteitä immersiivisyys, vuorovaikutus ja mielikuvitus. Digitaalista materiaalia syntyi opiskelijoiden vuoropuheluna, medioitten välisesti sekä todellisen ja imaginaarisen kohtaamisissa. Lukuisat merkitysverkostot olivat luonteeltaan intertekstuaalisia ja rihmastomaisia.

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