Digital Day Camp 2018: Trust
As a Digital Day Camp Associate, I designed, coordinated, and directed Eyebeam’s Digital Day Camp, the summer art&technology camp for NYC highschool students. While working closely with the Program manager, teaching artists, and teaching assistant, I facilitate and organize the timeline of the camp. DDC’s 2018 theme was TRUST. With a focus on the ways in which we trust have been transformed, students looked at critical ways to design methods for critique, communication, and coordination towards a more just world. Workshops ranged from creating zines, to programming activist twitter bots, to live coding their own music. View the full syllabus here.
Established in 1998, Digital Day Camp (DDC) is Eyebeam’s longest running program. DDC is an intensive, multi-week, youth arts and technology program for NYC high school students. Through local partnerships, we recruit applicants from youth in schools underrepresented in STEAM programs to ensure a diverse range of ideas and backgrounds in each cohort.
During DDC, students work alongside artist-educators and staff, engaging in lectures and hands-on workshops focusing on art and technology tools, careers in the field, and relevant social and artistic topics. We challenge youth and teachers to apply creative thinking strategies to help them develop critical, empowering and long-lasting relationships with technology.
During field trip to Eyebeam Headquarters, students learned about digital modelling and fabrication processes.(2018)