Abstract
Modern graduates of all disciplines require proficiency with new literacies to
complement and enhance traditional higher-level education. Local and multinational
businesses struggle to source graduates with both practical skills, an understanding
of the modern consumer, and the challenges of integrating technology safely into
almost every facet of life. This paper presents a multi-disciplinary module project that
required students to create a mixed-media art piece representing the students’ vision
of themselves as cybernetic organisms. The module was delivered over one semester
and incorporated industry speakers and workshops on non-traditional topics for the
discipline of these students. One of these topics was Coding for Non-Coders and
Wearable and Embeddable Technology. This paper examines the affordances the
students gained by learning how to incorporate simple, cheap but effective sensors in
their art.
