01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices: summit

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.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Summit / Community School of Music and Arts

We're hard at work on our project here in Mountain View, we've got the code working to display questions and I think we can trigger them using sound now. Today we'll put it all together and try it!

Our project will show questions on a monitor prompting people to tell stories about how they envision the future, then record people's answers, and finally add them to a database. Others can listen to the collected stories on headphones, and we'd like to put the best ones online as well. It's quite exciting!

01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices

Welcome 01SJ Micro-grant recipients!
Congratulations to all of you selected for this exciting 01SJ (http://www.01sj.org/) program.

This blog is meant as a way for each of the participants in 01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices program to open up and share their practice and process in developing the amazing programming for which you received a Micro-grant from 01SJ.

From now until June 2008, this blog will be a way for the different groups involved in the program to get to know one another and the amazing work being done around the world. During the exhibition, the documentation posted to this blog will serve as the narrative to tie the different projects together.

Please be generous with your posts and the information you share. This is a way to highlight exactly the things that make your programs and practice unique and...hopefully opening up a dialogue between you and your peers.

Background on the Program:
Based on the theories of Muhammad Yunus ( Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, 1999) and with the generous support of Adobe Systems, Inc., ZER01 is seizing the opportunity of the international 01SJ Festival to facilitate a world-wide youth digital arts production initiative via a micro-grant program. This project will fund 19 different international artists, arts collectives and established non-profit arts organizations and institutions to support the creation of new work by young digital artists (ages 11- 21 years) during the months leading up to the 01SJ Festival, in the individual communities of the groups funded. "Youth International" will culminate in an exhibition at the 01SJ Festival in June 2008, featuring the work generated by the youth, as well as the stories and process of each of the groups in receipt of the ZERO1 micro-grants.

The act of supporting youth production at an international level, in addition to the conversations about how to best facilitate youth digital arts programming is an incredibly timely and important service for the international youth community and the digital arts entities supporting this work. With this micro-grant program, ZER01 is a catalyst for a variety of digital art practitioners and modes of production to engage youth and share the experience of developing an infrastructure around new tools and practices for youth around the world to take action and have a voice. The exhibition of the youth digital art projects will provide a context for understanding how such work is made at all levels ( by grassroots organizations to fully realized centers), and the relevance of this work to the youth involved.

Produced by Liz Slagus, Director of Education and Public Programs for Eyebeam (New York, NY) in collaboration with ZERO1

01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

great event with amazing projects

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Summit / Community School of Music and Arts

01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices

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