{"id":514,"date":"2011-09-15T22:25:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matero.net\/?p=514"},"modified":"2011-09-15T22:25:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:25:23","slug":"college-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"College Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafa.edu.cn\">China Central Academy of Fine Arts<\/a> in Beijing is considered the number one art school in the country. Last April, I had a chance to see an experimental art exhibition at its museum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-515\" title=\"CAFA Exhibition\" src=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1143-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1143-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1143.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I learned some of the students now use micro controllers like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/\">Ardunio<\/a> with their projects now. For example, using sensors to make something interactive. Also they are using programming languages like <a href=\"http:\/\/processing.org\/\">Processing<\/a> or visual programming languages like <a href=\"http:\/\/cycling74.com\/products\/maxmspjitter\/\">Max\/MSP\/Jitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also had an opportunity to see a real dormitory. The room is roughly 10 feet by 20 feet. Six students live in this space with a bed on top, desk on the bottom filled with books, peanut shells, and empty cans. I noticed a few buckets on the floor where clothes are washed and socks hung on the radiator. Maybe not the most comfortable space, but I learned it is dirt cheap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1104.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-516\" title=\"CAFA Dormitory\" src=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1104-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1104-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1104.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing is considered the number one art school in the country. Last April, I had a chance to see an experimental art exhibition at its museum. I learned some of the students now use micro controllers like the Ardunio with their projects now. For example, using sensors &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=514\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;College Visit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}