La realidad virtual como estrategia para la enseñanza del curso introducción al arte contemporáneo en el instituto Digitalarts

Abstract

This article summarizes a research experience implemented in the DigitalArts academic campus, an institution dedicated to the teaching of art, focusing on digital art teaching. This institution works with adult audiences with or who wish to acquire knowledge in photography programs, virtual simulation, creation and video edit, video games, 3D, among other trends and artistic-creative modalities using current technology. Additionally, the contemporary art course is imparted, in order to instruct the student about new artistic trends, as well as creative methods that involve the use of technology. During the teaching of this class it was found that there was a pedagogical chance, since the students expressed disagreement with the methodology used, which, although it involved the use of technology, did not meet academic expectations. Through an observation process, it was possible to collect the necessary information to implement a strategy to correct this failure. In this way, it was decided to create a virtual museum space, where twelve artworks created by the artists Jaime David Pérez and María Fernanda Cuartas were exhibited. The experience includes passing through two exhibitions, which each exhibit ten artworks by the mentioned above artists, this allows users to have an experience quite close to visiting a real museum. At the end of the experience, it was found that through the implementation of a virtual museum space as a strategy for teaching the course introduction to contemporary art at the DigitalArts institute, a more holistic, meaningful and lasting learning was achieved by the students who they were part of the experience.