JOB: Eyebeam’s Digital Day Camp – Call for Teachers

For the first two weeks in July I’m organizing Digital Day Camp (DDC17) where we invite between 15-20 public high school students to join us at Eyebeam for our youth art and technology summer intensive and I’m looking putting out a broad call for teaching artists. I thought this would be a great opportunity to expand the community of teaching artists, get to know each others practice better and aim for more sustainability around art & tech education in NYC!

During DDC17, students work alongside artist-educators engaging in hands-on workshops to focus on software, hardware, tools, careers in the field, and social topics around this year’s theme of POWER. The theme for DDC17 responds to Eyebeam’s current residency cohort and its focus examining relationships between power and technology. As new models of computation mix with older forms of governance, the shape of Power is transforming. We will challenge youth to apply creative thinking strategies across a range of tools and topics with the goal to develop critical, empowering and long-lasting relationships with technology and their role in it as agents of change.

We’d love to see you this summer and have you inspire the students, if you are interested in submitting a class or workshop idea please fill out the form online here – https://goo.gl/forms/QXIdJ5BOn7LLstDD3

When: July 3rd through 14th, Monday – Friday from 10am to 4pm (we are closed on the 4th)

Where: Eyebeam 34 35th St, 5th Floor, Unit #26, Brooklyn, bet. 2nd & 3rd ave in Industry City

What:

We’re looking to provide a mix of class and workshop experiences; art, software, hardware & critical theory.
We can pay up to $200/day for a class/workshop (inclusive of prep). Payment will be delivered at the end of the session and payment rate would be dependent on length of class/workshop (e.g. an hour long demo would be less).
We have a separate budget for materials you may need.
Teachers should provide a clear syllabus including additional to the students before their session so students can continue learning about the topics they were introduced to after they leave class. (will provide examples)

About our pedagogical approach

Every educational initiative is core to furtherance of Eyebeam’s mission. We believe in:

Openness: to teach technology through art, encouraging self-expression and inquiry with the goal to create learning habits that are long lasting and self-perpetuating.
Justice: to engage students to think critically about technology practices and how they can be used to further social justice, equality and activism.
Invention: to empower youth to see technology as a tool for creation, enabling them to be producers, not only consumers.
Access: to teach fundamental technology concepts pairing minimal materials with maximum impact.

For more information on this year’s DDC17 session please check out the event page – http://eyebeam.org/events/digital-day-camp-2017/ or contact me directly @ lauren.gardner@eyebeam.org

Thanks!!! Hope you have a great summer!

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Lauren Gardner

Associate Director of Education