Swap-Sivi, a Technological Research Project Applied to Art Teaching and Create Digital Contents
Ignacio Oliva, Juan Vicente, Miguel Ángel · InTech eBooks · 2010
SWAP-SIVI is the 3º consecutive project from IDECA group (Research and Development of Audiovisual Contents) and belongs to the College of Fine Arts at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca.SWAP-SIVI proposes to elaborate new communication systems for our owns needs, as university teachers and as artists, in order to get better media at university work spaces and to open it to many foreign students from the Erasmus Program.The project explores the real possibilities of this application in teaching tasks, as well as exploring a more open and flexible concept for students at university centers.SWAP-SIVI offers technological tools for needs of contemporary artistic creation.SWAP-SIVI project is divided in three essential parts: 1.1.SWAP is centered on designing software with an interactive interface for complex operations in the creation of tools and teaching tasks.SWAP proposes creating a suite in order to amplify and make the contents steps better in art teaching.Usuers will be able to create a didactical space in a little time and with limited knowledge of technological tools.The contents can be defined by the user depending on their specific needs: audiovisual information, links, work proposals, forums, spaces for analysis and debate, exchange and intercommunications spaces, and so on.SWAP will contribute to one of the more important objectives in the European University plans of the Bologna agreement.1.2.SIVI is more ambitious and is focused on creating a bidirectional communication system in real time for the exchange of information.This proposal comes from professional systems like Windows XP Messenger but advance in independent software development.This system can be useful in new E-learning processes and can be expanded to interdisciplinary communication in artistic creation, especially in audiovisual contents.Conceptually, the system is similar to videoconference but it tries to provide an additional step in order to adjust it to specifics needs and tasks, with a simple and light kit: a webcam, computer and system access.1.3.The third part of this project is dedicated to the creation of a digital archive of audiovisual contents.This file is consists of audiovisual content for the teaching of art and 26 www.intechopen.com New Achievements in Technology, Education and Development 426includes records from video documentaries about art to work of former students of the College of Fine Arts of Cuenca.For strategic group research reasons, file creation is vital because it provides content to SWAP tools and forms a framework for discussion and useful meeting point for the implementation of SIVI.In the future we hope to expand the frontiers of physical space for teaching with the proposed SIVI system in order to advance communication systems for operating in real time and give answers to an important challenge of our times.