Artistic Uses of the Microcomputer

Abstract

The writer, as a teacher of the Plastic Arts at the Normal School in Clergy in the suburbs of Paris, is responsible for the initial and in-service training of teachers of his subject. For the past two years he has used computerised audio-visual technology in his classes, along with such traditional activities as gouache and photography, pencil and silk screen drawing, sculpture and cinema.

He has experience with elementary school pupils in using computer-assisted drawing and, with 4th form pupils, in the collective programming in BASIC of an animated sequence involving the analysis of set materials enriched by the notion of variability.