Friday, June 13, 2008
01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices Exhibition: June 4-8, 2008
Congratulations to all the groups involved in the 01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices program!!! 01SJ AGYV culminated in an exhibition at The Tech’s New Venture Hall June 4-8, 2008.
There was an abundance of incredibly positive feedback and praise for the projects on display in the exhibition. Everyone who came through the exhibition was impressed by the level of work generated by the 11-21 year olds involved in the program.
On a day-to-day basis, the exhibition drew approximately 150-200 visitors. So, the work of your youth was seen by many! To facilitate the visits to the exhibition, Grant Wilson, an amazing local artist (and just plain wonderful human being!) was on-hand to describe, and in some cases demonstrate the projects to those with questions. The reception on Saturday, June 7th at 6pm was a huge success with a few hundred people from the town of San Jose and the 01SJ festival in attendance. It was a lively and fun event and celebration of the efforts of the youth involved in AGYV. The Saturday workshops and demonstrations by the groups in attendance were also incredibly well-attended and a nice opportunity for the youth and/or artists involved with the projects to speak directly to the public about the work.
Below is a link to a flickr site with the images from the exhibition that I took. Additionally, ZERO1 had a professional photographer and those photos will soon be posted to the 01SJ website. There is also a video podcast of the exhibition that will be posted as soon as it is edited. There is a great deal of documentation.
To contextualize the exhibition, the following text met visitors as they entered the space:
In a time with seemingly unlimited technological resources and a generation of youth possessing the undeniable capacity to use such tools for innovative, critical and creative practice, the opportunity to hone and support such development needs to be seized. But how to properly support such an endeavor?
“The real issue is creating a level playing field for everybody,” states Muhammad Yunus, author of Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty and inspiration for the 01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices program at the 01SJ Festival. As a result of Yunus’s work, which encourages solidarity amongst those in need and a culture of collaboration, 01SJ initiated a micro-grant program via funding provided by Adobe Systems, Incorporated. With this program, 01SJ has been able to support and highlight 17 different international youth digital art projects—from Cairo to Macedonia to New York City to San Jose.
The micro-grant program was intended to inspire a variety of international artists, art collectives, and established non-profit arts organizations and institutions to support the creation of new work by young digital artists (ages 11-21 years). The pieces on view in this exhibition are the result of the micro-lending program. Each of the 17 groups selected for the program was awarded a micro-grant of $500 to regrant and/or support youth in their community to develop individual or collaborative projects. Each group was also granted an additional $500 to document the process of working with the youth in their program, how and why the micro-grant was spent, and in so doing: a unique view into their community and circumstances.
A blog site reflecting the documentation of each group was created to lend a deeper understanding and appreciation for this work: http://01sjadobeglobalyouthvoices.blogspot.com. A viewing station for the blog has been installed inside the exhibition, providing immediate access to how each group defines and shares their methodologies for bringing youth together with art and technology.
Youth media projects from Adobe Youth Voices – the Adobe Foundation’s global philanthropy initiative – are also on display.
The 01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices exhibition represents an exciting spectrum of work being done within the global arts community to further the expressive ability of youth around the world through new tools. More importantly, it is a statement as to what is possible with support, collaboration and the passion to use technology creatively for the purpose of expanding minds and options for finding a voice within the world.
Produced by Liz Slagus,
Director of Education and Public Programs, Eyebeam, NY--for ZERO1
Please find images of the exhibition and workshops/demonstrations from June 7th here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21483374@N04/sets/72157605597916339/
There was an abundance of incredibly positive feedback and praise for the projects on display in the exhibition. Everyone who came through the exhibition was impressed by the level of work generated by the 11-21 year olds involved in the program.
On a day-to-day basis, the exhibition drew approximately 150-200 visitors. So, the work of your youth was seen by many! To facilitate the visits to the exhibition, Grant Wilson, an amazing local artist (and just plain wonderful human being!) was on-hand to describe, and in some cases demonstrate the projects to those with questions. The reception on Saturday, June 7th at 6pm was a huge success with a few hundred people from the town of San Jose and the 01SJ festival in attendance. It was a lively and fun event and celebration of the efforts of the youth involved in AGYV. The Saturday workshops and demonstrations by the groups in attendance were also incredibly well-attended and a nice opportunity for the youth and/or artists involved with the projects to speak directly to the public about the work.
Below is a link to a flickr site with the images from the exhibition that I took. Additionally, ZERO1 had a professional photographer and those photos will soon be posted to the 01SJ website. There is also a video podcast of the exhibition that will be posted as soon as it is edited. There is a great deal of documentation.
To contextualize the exhibition, the following text met visitors as they entered the space:
In a time with seemingly unlimited technological resources and a generation of youth possessing the undeniable capacity to use such tools for innovative, critical and creative practice, the opportunity to hone and support such development needs to be seized. But how to properly support such an endeavor?
“The real issue is creating a level playing field for everybody,” states Muhammad Yunus, author of Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty and inspiration for the 01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices program at the 01SJ Festival. As a result of Yunus’s work, which encourages solidarity amongst those in need and a culture of collaboration, 01SJ initiated a micro-grant program via funding provided by Adobe Systems, Incorporated. With this program, 01SJ has been able to support and highlight 17 different international youth digital art projects—from Cairo to Macedonia to New York City to San Jose.
The micro-grant program was intended to inspire a variety of international artists, art collectives, and established non-profit arts organizations and institutions to support the creation of new work by young digital artists (ages 11-21 years). The pieces on view in this exhibition are the result of the micro-lending program. Each of the 17 groups selected for the program was awarded a micro-grant of $500 to regrant and/or support youth in their community to develop individual or collaborative projects. Each group was also granted an additional $500 to document the process of working with the youth in their program, how and why the micro-grant was spent, and in so doing: a unique view into their community and circumstances.
A blog site reflecting the documentation of each group was created to lend a deeper understanding and appreciation for this work: http://01sjadobeglobalyouthvoices.blogspot.com. A viewing station for the blog has been installed inside the exhibition, providing immediate access to how each group defines and shares their methodologies for bringing youth together with art and technology.
Youth media projects from Adobe Youth Voices – the Adobe Foundation’s global philanthropy initiative – are also on display.
The 01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices exhibition represents an exciting spectrum of work being done within the global arts community to further the expressive ability of youth around the world through new tools. More importantly, it is a statement as to what is possible with support, collaboration and the passion to use technology creatively for the purpose of expanding minds and options for finding a voice within the world.
Produced by Liz Slagus,
Director of Education and Public Programs, Eyebeam, NY--for ZERO1
Please find images of the exhibition and workshops/demonstrations from June 7th here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21483374@N04/sets/72157605597916339/
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
great event with amazing projects
We here at CSMA were amazed at the quality and breadth of the projects on display. We were so happy to be a part of it and are going to expand our project into a bigger installation for display at Mohr Gallery here at our school. Thank you to everyone involved in making this happen.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Great Day in San Jose!
On June 7 2008 at the TECH museum in San Jose, all 18 programs of Adobe Global Youth Voices came together in one fantastic setting! Special thanks to Liz Slagus, the coordinator and to Grant Wilson, the facilitator at the site. For Hot Sun Foundation, the Global Youth Voices helped us reach our goal of making the KIBERA CONNECTION, the title of the video prepared by Kibera youth to introduce their community, the largest slum in east Africa, located in Nairobi, Kenya. Pamela Collett, representing Hot Sun Foundation, particularly enjoyed the opportunity to meet youth from other digital art programs. Thanks to Adobe for sponsoring this innovative approach for youth worldwide.
For more photos, visit hotsunfoundation.blogspot.com.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Check out Project Walkway on youtube
Project Walkway 2008 PSA Part 1:
Intro, interviews with Yvonne and Wandy
Project Walkway 2008 PSA Part 2:
Interviews with Meisha and Blanca
Project Walkway 2008 PSA Part 3:
Runway show, project overview with Norene
Intro, interviews with Yvonne and Wandy
Project Walkway 2008 PSA Part 2:
Interviews with Meisha and Blanca
Project Walkway 2008 PSA Part 3:
Runway show, project overview with Norene
Monday, June 2, 2008
'Urban Outsiders', UK
Jake's Blog
Me, Macauley, Rebecca and Liane went to the secret pond to film some footage of water reflections and water snails. It was very fun because I was filming, taking pictures and also trying to find water snails. I took some pictures and filmed the flowers around and in the pond. After lunch my partner Macauley and me was scanning some pictures on Mrs Hendy's Laptop. It was brilliant!
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