Youth Programs

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What has been traditionally understood as "arts education" at other institutions stands apart at Eyebeam, as our youth programs put aspiring young artists together in a collaborative environment with emerging and established practitioners from the community.

 
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Girls Eye View
Girls-Eye View (GEV) is a program for NYC middle school and high school girls, developed as a response to research stating that adolescent girls begin to pull back from technology and allow boys to play the dominant roll in group activities and in the classroom.Participating students work with a female teaching artist to develop individual and group projects investigating thematic topics through a lens that is specifically relevant to women and girls. Project content is developed via in-depth discussions regarding art and art history, trips to local art institutions and shows, female guest speakers who can speak to the career possibilities for women with the skills taught in the GEV program, and weekly critiques.
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Digital Day Camp
DIGITAL DAY CAMP (DDC): Students enrolled in Eyebeam's DDC summer program engage in lectures and hands-on workshops focusing on art and technology tools, careers in the field, and relevant social and artistic topics. Through their investigations, students have the opportunity to research current themes in art and technology, and develop projects in response to what they discover.DDC activities are led by invited technology professionals, contemporary artists, and Eyebeam's current residents and fellows. Participants in past programs have engaged in project-based learning around themes of bio-tech, urban intervention, gaming, and wearable technology.DDC is open to NYC public high school students and applications are sent out during the month of May. The program is competitive, and participating students are paid a $25/day stipend, paid out at the program's conclusion.
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After School Atelier
After School Atelier (ASA) is a semester-long program that provides NYC public high school and middle school students the opportunity to work in a studio environment and to develop new media art projects under the guidance of Eyebeam’s Teaching Artists.This outreach program helps students to deconstruct media messages about teens by teaching digital imaging techniques, introducing them to guest-lecturing new media professionals, and engaging them with art and design issues. Each semester Eyebeam holds one class for High School students and one for Middle School students. Each class runs two days per week for 7 weeks, depending on the school schedule. The students are offered opportunities to work on projects cooperatively with the Arists-in Residence, professional mentors, ASA staff, and their peers.
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CLICK@MoMA: Wearable Technology
Every Tuesday from February 14th to April 24th, Eyebeam & MoMA team up to present a youth workshop series exploring art that you can perform and wear using the latest in portable, digital innovation. Taught by Eyebeam alum Diana Eng, and taking their inspiration from MoMA's collection, participants will incorporate cutting-edge technology to explore the world in which clothing, sound, and art collide. Can clothing that pleases the eye also please the ears? Can circuitry and sound push art and fashion further into the future? Participants in this workshop will produce wearable work that uses a little electricity to generate a lot of excitement! Follow their progress here.
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After School Spring 2012
"White Noise, Blind Spot" is an after school arts and technology intensive and paid leadership opportunity for NYC area high school students. Each year students in Eyebeam's After School Atelier (ASA) program are given the opportunity to work on projects cooperatively with Eyebeam Residents and Fellows, professional mentors, staff, and their peers. This year we are teaming up with journalism training and production institute People's Production House and The New School to produce web based, media rich stories on some of our local community heros. We will mine the streets of Chelsea like urban archaelogists to uncover lost histories, local secrets, and generational wisdom.
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Teen Mashup Remix: Creative Youth Workshops
  The Change You Want To See gallery will host a collaborative workshop exploring the mashup and remix of audio-visual, social and architectural elements onsite, with local borough-based teenage participants and Eyebeam's educational partners. Each workshop participant will be invited to bring at least three clips to add to a pool of source material. We will consider site-specific “give and take”, and aim to develop “fair-use” guidelines for fellow participants and laymen. VJ-ing, event-design and space-modification workshops will mix and remix the resources, talents, perspectives of all present, to create a performative party with live audio-visual manipulation, a juice-bar and dancing. As a public party for the Seeders 'N' Leechers 'R' Us outgoing process, thie evening endeavors to seed the imagination of possible futures.