Beam Camp looking for artist and maker to lead summer program

Please visit the following link for Beam Camp's latest call for proposals: 

https://beamcamp.org/projectproposal/

https://beamcamp.org/staff-application/

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What is Beam Camp?

Beam Camp was founded in 2004 by Brian Cohen and Danny Kahn to provide children with exciting experiences in creative problem-solving through working with their hands and actively collaborating with others. 

Since then, Beam Camp has guided 1000+ campers to cultivate hands-on skills while exploring innovative thinking, design and the creative process. Each session campers and staff build a spectacular large-scale collaborative project chosen through an annual worldwide design competition. Beam Projects have received international media exposure and won major architecture prizes.

In late 2011, Danny and Brian founded the nonprofit Beam Center as the New York home for Beam's philosophy and practice. Beam Center now collaborates with ten NYC public middle and high schools and its Brooklyn home hosts full schedule of workshop and apprenticeship programs for students from 2nd through 12th grades.

Since its start Beam Camp has funded scholarships and tuition assistance for 40% of all campers. In 2015, Brian donated the Beam Camp operation to Beam Center and became its Executive Director.

Beam Camp is now an integral part of Beam Center's mission. In 2016 Beam Camp refined its summer program to sharpen the focus on skill-building, collaborative challenge, responsibility and mentorship, and deepen its commitment to serve youth from Beam Center's partner public schools and Community Based Organizations.

Queens College looking for a Maker in Residence

We are starting to put together a maker space here at Queens College and are looking for a Maker in Residence to use the facilities on interesting and creative projects as well as help the student staff members get accustomed with the equipment. This will probably start in the Spring and comes with a small stipend. Please feel free to email me at danne.woo@qc.cuny.edu if you are interested. 

Assistant Professor, Design / Queens College, CUNY
Founder / Datavisual, Inc. / datavisu.al
Design Technologist / Danne Woo Design / dannewoo.com

CTC student Mengyu Li will produce interactive exhibition in Beijing in summer 201

CTC student Mengyu Li completed an interactive installation in CTC course -  New Media New Form. Partly inspired by this artwork, she has won a business competition at Columbia University to produce an interactive pop-up museum exhibition in Beijing in summer 2018. Please see below for documentation about her artistic project: 

From the artist: 

The installation defaults to a still image of a calm face, but as viewers walk toward it, the Kinect detects their movement and flashes a “hidden” face showing different emotions that change depending on the position of the viewers. In this work, I turn my attention into creating a connection with the public. The interactivity of this installation engages public with my art to create an art experience that viewer can feel their own contribution to the art. In addition, this work reveals the suppressed emotions. People in western culture tend to see sensitivity as a negative thing and sometimes link it to vulnerability. As a result, many people try to suppress their emotions, especially in public. This social convention is so deeply routed one can even find it in the language routine. For example, when people greet “how are you”, it seems like the only legitimate response is “I’m fine/ I’m good/ I’m doing great.” It seems like we live in a culture where everything needs to be just fine. But are we always fine? This installation, through showing different hidden emotions in a public space, questions this social phenomenon.

Documentation of her multimedia exhibition in Beijing, China

images copyright: http://fashion.sina.com.cn/

CTC student Catherine Lan curates art exhibition at Metropolitan Pavilion NYC

CTC student Catherine Lan recently acted as the assistant curator for a series of art exhibitions at Metropolitan Pavilion NYC and other locations featuring contemporary Chinese artists and their works. Catherine is an MFA fine art student from Yale University. Her recently experience as a student of CTC inspired her to fuse recently available technology with her artistic practice. This has influenced her own art making, teaching, as well as her understanding about the contemporary art practice at large. This curatorial project reflects her recent interest in inquiring about the boundaries between art and technology, tradition and newness, physical and digital cultures. 

Curatorial Statement: 

New Youth:
China-America Young Artists

We live in a brand-new age which provides unparalleled opportunities for young people and unprecedented challenge to their self-awareness. Young artists are the future, and the speaker for the present. The reason is that they possess more information and a broader horizon, which requires them to make choices in this diverse and variable world.

“New Youth: China-America Young Artists Exhibition” demonstrates works by young artists cutting a figure in the contemporary art field recently. They are from various colleges and universities, and their works are quite different in terms of style and pattern. But such variation stands for the choices they have made in this brand-new and variable age. “New Youth” serves as a platform to present such choices in the art works to the whole world.

For more information, please visit: 

http://www.nyclunarnewyear.org/arts-exhibition.html

CTC student Dylan Ryder to present at Scratch Conference at MIT

CTC student Dylan Ryder is scheduled to present at Scratch Conference at MIT in summer 2018. 

See link below for more information regarding the conference: 

https://scratch.mit.edu/conference/

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Dylan Ryder joined The School at Columbia in 2012 with more than 10 years of educational technology experience in the K-12 and higher education environments. His goal is to help students and faculty use technology safely, responsibly and creatively - with particular attention to hands-on problem solving, engineering, computer science and robotics. Prior to joining The School, Dylan taught technology skills with the US Peace Corps in the Pacific island nation of Samoa, and was later the Technology Coordinator at Stevens Cooperative School. Always pursuing innovative pedagogy, Dylan has published articles on teaching computer programming to young students and has delivered workshops on integrating computer science and engineering into K-12 education for ISTE, ASEE, and at schools and universities around the country.

For publications and workshop engagement of Dylan, please visit https://dylanmryder.wordpress.com/

CTC faculty Jaymes Dec lead Nerdy Derby at STEAM day

CTC faculty Jaymes Dec recently lead his long-term maker project Nerdy Derby at Scarsdale Public School's STEAM day.

For more information, please visit: https://nerdyderby.com/

CTC faculty Erin Riley's writing featured by Stanford Fablearn

CTC faculty Erin Riley's article, Where Art and Design Education Meets MakerEd was recently featured by Stanford Fablearn. The FabLearn Fellows program is part of a larger project sponsored by the National Science Foundation entitled “Infusing Learning Sciences Research into Digital Fabrication in Education and the Makers’ Movement.” 

For More information, please go to: 

http://fablearn.stanford.edu/fellows/blog/where-art-and-design-education-meets-makered

CTC faculty Richard Jochum exhibiting at Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts

CTC faculty Richard Jochum recently exhibited his work Protest Club at the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts.

Protest Club

Group Exhibition International Partnerships

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts

March 6 - June, 2018. Opening: April 25, 6-8 PM

Curated by Natalia Nakazawa

More info about EFA

CTC student Zhenzhen Qi exhibiting at Asia Art Archive

CTC student Zhenzhen Qi recently exhibited her computational collaboration project at Asia Art Archive America.

Artist Statement:

Making an art game is like daydreaming - one that we can go back to over and over again. Game Objects are external manifestations of creators’ spirits. When their creators are tied up with the reality of life, these tiny things awake in the wondrous space of “grandeur” (Gustave Bachelard, 1948) created through the imagination of their creators. They twist, turn, wiggle, roll around. On a sunny day, they wonder into the deep land, make a friend, sing a song(more like make a sound to their creators) by the river. Gently, they bring together heaven and earth, and opens us the future of reality.

ThingThingThing is an experimental collaboration between Asia Art Archive and artist duo ZZYW, formed by Yang Wang and Zhenzhen Qi. A group of participants and the organizers will spend two fun and action packed days in AAA’s lovely Brooklyn Heights office, learning fundamentals of video game development, and make a collective art game along the way. At the end of the two days, the result is a film that generates it own plots in real time, composed by all participants using Unity, a video game development platform and C# as the programming language.

 

Collaborators

Zhenzhen PrinceZ
Yang Elo & Dummy
Jingling JZ & JZPig
Evian Cloud Cloud & Sheep_Mushy
Sara Margarita & Tomas
JHMun Chicken

For more information, please visit http://zhenzhenqi.com/thingthingthing

CTC student Avery Forbes exhibiting at EdLab

CTC student Avery Forbes recently exhibited her interactive installation potusvirus at EdLab.

Artist Statement: 

I built this device to be patient zero for a virus. I am working on a simpler analog design that may be easier to spread. The machine is simply a means for generating the real work: the tweets. Tap the button as many times as you want to generate a series of words. Write them down. Post them. Spread the virus. Defeat ignorance with nonsense.

For more information, please visit  http://www.averyforbes.com/#/potusvirus/

CTC student Trisha Barton presenting at DiRP Conference

CTC student Trisha Barton presented her interactive art installation, Eye Scream and facilitated discussions at the 2018 DiRP Conference. 

Artist Statement: 

This project focuses on raising mental health awareness in the Black community, delivered through an Afrofuturistic lens using the concept of phototherapy. Eye Scream is an art piece, and device, that takes the concept of light therapy and applies it to neopixels that react based on amplitude.  When you sing or talk to it, it lights up.  The lighting up follows the concept of displaying light to increase serotonin production, similar to how the Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) lamps work.  But unlike the SAD lamp, Eye Scream tiesinto black culture through its light responding to sound.  Since movement and discussion are some of the ways people in the black community cope with their ailments, Eye Scream encourages community discussion, talking and singing.

For more information, please visit: 

https://www.trishabarton.org/affirmation-mirror

Amplify (Ed-Tech) is Hiring

We’re growing quickly at Amplify, and we are looking for great people to join us! 

In particular, we’re looking for Account Managers, Product Managers, Project Managers, Engineers, Professional Development Trainers/Coaches. We have senior and more junior positions available, and we are looking for people to work in roles across the country!  If you want to support teachers and students and want to make our schools great places to teach - and thrilling places to learn, then please be in touch.  

See positions and apply at the link below. 

Amplify Careers

Architectronics looking for partners

Architectronics, Inc. is an EdTech and invention company located in Manhattan which focuses on STEM education.  We are developing and launching a number of new products, and continuing to sell products we have created. www.makesense.co

We are looking for partners to help launch several exciting new products via Kickstarter.

.If interested, please contact Stephen Lewis,  steve@architectronics.com

Architectronics is an active long-established business, developing hardware and software, and selling products, since incorporating in 1986.  Covering a wide variety of creative and innovative endeavors over the years, Architectronics has developed children’s books, films for Sesame Street, CAD software user interfaces, ultrasonic measuring devices, unique animation engines, interactive storefronts, and many others.  We hold two patents and several trademarks.

Our most current projects include sensor interface boards and sensor sets for STEM education, programmable robots, interactive software for classrooms, museum exhibits, and a number of offbeat digital art projects.

G4C Festival looking for volunteers

Every year, the G4C Festival unites more than 1,000 people from the games, tech, education, and non-profit sector to collaborate and drive real world change. Notable speakers from previous years include Aldis Sipolins (IBM), Alan Lewis (Take-Two Interactive), Luc St-Onge (Ubisoft), Mia Tramz (TIME Magazine), Craig Hagen (EA), and many more!

G4C is looking for volunteers for the 15th annual Games for Change Festival, taking place June 28th – June 30th at the Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York City.

G4C relies on the support of volunteers to help bring the Festival to life. In exchange for their assistance, volunteers are invited to attend part of the Festival, where they will hear from experts, share and explore groundbreaking ideas, and experience new impact games.

For more information about the Festival, please visit our website.

 

Volunteer registration is OPEN NOW and available at the following link: http://bit.ly/g4c18volunteers

Bronx Museum of the Arts is looking for a Teacher's Assistant

The Bronx Museum of the Arts is looking for a Teacher's Assistant with proficient computer skills and some teaching experience to work with 7th graders as part of our in-school partnership with a local Middle School.

The theme of this particular partnership is gaming. Students learn basic gaming concepts while exploring contemporary art. 7th graders will be learning game mechanics by creating digital games. The TA would work with our lead instructor, supporting students as they create their games. 

We can offer the TA $50 per session and there will be 11 sessions (45min each). Sessions begin in early October. We do not have the final schedule but the sessions should run until mid-December. 

I am happy to answer any questions you might have regarding this opportunity and please feel free to pass this information along to your colleagues.

Please respond to: heatherd10@gmail.com