Art Gallery Inventions

By Room 10 | Posted: Tuesday June 6, 2017

Exploring how people have changed the course of history with their creative solutions to problems was a main idea of todays visit.

John Neumagen presented different pieces of art and talked about the technology connected with them. He talked about the inventions that come out of war times, and posed the question to the class of whether killer robots were a good idea, or not?

He spoke about how creative artists develop new techniques. De Vinci created a way of merging heads into the background. His fascination with birds lead to him exploring and designing many flying machines. The invention of oil paints and paint in tubes took art to the outdoors. Monet revolutionised the art world by revealing brush strokes. He talked about Jackson Pollock and how creative minds can see many things in abstract art.

He introduced us to Chindogu, the Japanese concept of creating useless inventions.

We then went on to develop our own inventions using collage.

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Wyatt: This machine turns animals into humans.

John Neumegen talking about inventions in times of war.

Manisha and Annalise entralled by John's storytelling about Cook's landing at the Bay of Plenty.

Natalia uses clever means to conquer the unrippable papere challenge.

Jorden: A walking telephone. The zebra is teaching this amazing invention how to walk.

Nic: A self-walking dinosaur. The turtle has to program it with its strings to set the destination.

Thomas: The automatic costume dispenser. You stand on the black pressure plate and it dispenses the costume directly on to you. It reflects your personality so you are always going to get a costume you like.

Miah: It is an arctic fox radio. Each switch does a different thing. The lever starts it up. The cogs give you a different song and the button stops it.

Natalia: An animal teleportation device.

Ollie: Teach an alligator to dance machine.

Annalise: When you flip the lever the robotic mice turn on and start working.

Nika: My invention is a walking bottle. It walks around with you so you don't need to carry it in your bag. It has a face so it's like a friend and keeps you company.

Maia: A dancing computer. When you turn the green button it starts dancing.

Isaiah: The lever on the chair is pulled by the kid. If the person or zebra is being annoying you can pull the lever and the sleeping pill will fly out and fall into the drink.