Installations: Nicole Miller, A Sound, a Signal, the Circus
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Grades: 6 - 12
Video Description: Artist and filmmaker Nicole Miller explores the Black experience through sound, moving images and laser light animation.
Type of Video: Tour*
Unique Video ID: AandA-NMiller**
Quick Ideas for Using the Video:
- For Discussion: Have students respond to the exhibition as an art critic. What do they find interesting? Would they recommend that others attend the exhibition? Why or why not?
- Activity Idea: Have students listen for these words or phrases while watching this video and then define them afterwards: sound scape, narrative art, animation installation, and creative articulation.
- Activity Idea: Use the video with a unit focused on using sound in art installations. Have students work in groups and create an installation where sound plays an important role.
*Tours take students to laboratories, studios, workspaces, museums and other diverse “in the field” and community locations related to the area of study.
**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.
