monday morning silly pic

Here's an image that came from our group at CSMA/Summit in Mountain View.  I thought I would post it for some fun on a Monday morning.  We're looking forward to setting up this afternoon at Tech!  

'Urban Outsiders', Uk youth workshop blog entries cont.....

Tiegan's Blog

On Tuesday 19th of May (third session) Bonongton Jounior School came to Top Valley. My name is Tiegan, I went to the frog pond which is a very nice place then I went to the garden and filmed many things in the garden. By now I feel a member of Top Valley school. On Wednesday we went on a tour around the school then went back and worked on the computers, scanning and editing. We have also had a lot of fun so far everyone is working together and getting along. All this artwork we are making is going to be presented by Theresa in California. I feel nervous about my work being shown.

'Urban Outsiders', Uk youth workshop blog entries cont...

Jamal's Blog

Hello I am Jamal. My favourite thing about the project is when we went to Hucknall Road Walkway and found things I wouldn't ever noticed before. When I saw the woodland pathway I filmed earlier projected on the wall back in class i thought it looked like you could walk down into it with all the leaves moving, the colours and the shapes with the sunshine falling through the leaves. The birds song actually stands out from everything else and it belongs there it feels right when you're there in the woodland.

freeDimensional in Cairo

freeDimensional facilitated two youth - Fatima from Iraq & Abdel Salem from Sudan - to participate in the Adobe Youth Voices workshop on Culture & Identity with 15 other Egyptian participants, thereby creating a mini-time capsule of their impressions living in Egypt (outside of their own country) and in relation to the IHSPH time capsule of immigrant youth who have moved to New York City from over 40 countries.

Fatima's illustration:




Abdel Salem's illustration:



Additonally, freeDimensional worked with Cardboard Citizens and Creative Exchange to conduct a playback theatre workshop with a group of Sudanese and Egyptian youth.

Lastly, freeDimensional facilitated a relationship between one of the theatre trainees, Ronald Reagan, a Sudanese refugee and his music and theatre group, VIP, and Actors for Refugees in order to present a monologue on the theme of 'exile' for the 11th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) Conference in Cairo in January 2008.

The Project Walkway wrap up

On the final day of Project Walkway the girls had interviewed each other while Norene recorded on video for the Project Walkway DVD. These interviews would be part of the Zer01 exhibition. We did practice walks on the red carpet runway. We stood in the conference room to do some last minute shoe repair making sure that they were ok so that there were no malfunctions on the runway. One of the engineers, Jess, painted the girls toe nails blue. While waiting for the show to start the girls were nervous but also very excited. All the participants that walked the runway had to wait in the R&D Lab until their names were called. They all did very well and had personality while walking which made the crowd smile and applaud. Their shoes were all unique in their way which attracted many interviews from the people that were watching. The girls were interviewed for the Sci-Fi channel and for a pod cast by the New York Academy of Sciences. Once they are online we will post them on the blog to keep you updated. Now the shoes are going to the exhibition in San Jose for the Zer01 new media art festival. In the fall we will be going to Bayard Rustin Academy for Art and Music, where we will be presenting the shoes to the students. Keep checking our website to see what we're up to.

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!

Update from the ICA

Sorry that we haven't written in quite some time, but we have been busily preparing for our film screening on May 30, which includes five pieces from ZERO1 grant recipients! The students have been working hard these past few weeks, finalizing their work and getting feedback from their mentors.

Last week the students completed their pieces and the big unveiling happens tomorrow at the ICA theater. We had quite the range of projects: a documentary about bottled water vs. tap water, a 5.1 surround sound piece on pain (experimental documentary), a playful comedy about a daydreamer, a narrative on what happens when a friend ventures down a path you don't approve of, and a short film that explores the moment one teen decides to muster up a little chutzpah. We'll let you know when we post the films on our blog.

We look forward to seeing everyone's work!