For the inaugural Media Arts residency at Graham D. Bruce Elementary school, students were invited to use iPads as potential extensions of our bodies as recording devices: to “download” the way we receive light, time, movement, sound, and other senses. Each week presented an inquiry into how to use a tablet as a tool or even a toy, and to notice how playing allows us to access the full range of our senses while transmitting a record of what is happening around and within us. Working with stop-motion and experimental animation, acoustic ecology, time-lapse photography, and compositing, we collectively created media art outside the linear progression of pre-production, production, post-production to instead orient ourselves towards emergent time, space and body-awareness practices.
