Events

Today, life seems increasingly prescribed, recursive, and normalizing. Using COVID as a prefix, commercial companies are promoting the integration of AI into online classrooms, reasoning that this software can detect student engagement based on image analysis of their facial expression. This will have a tremendous impact on the future of Education and human consciousness at large.

In this two-part workshop series, we will discuss the current development of AI. It’s methodologies and implementations. In part II of the workshop, we will collectively explore meaningful interventions around AI, using a variety of software design and development platforms. Visit AI for Educators for full details. 

The ubiquity of digital and interactive media has drastically changed the way today’s educators teach and share knowledge. Today’s young learners are drawn towards newly available digital, interactive ways of learning and creating. This summer, join us to explore new ways of incorporating design and code into your K12 teaching practice. No prior experience with creative technology is needed. Everyone is welcome from newcomers to technology masters! Visit Creative Technologies Online Bootcamp 2021 for full details.

Meeting The Moment: Creative Technologies Exhibition 2020 is a virtual exhibition showcasing the work of artists who push digital and emerging technologies beyond their functional capacity into the realm of the metaphor in order to tell the stories and put forth the images that are of relevance in the historical moment of today. Visit Meeting the Moment: Creative Technologies Exhibition 2020 for full details.

Long short-term memory (LSTM) is an artificial recurrent neural network, (RNN) architecture used in the field of deep learning. Unlike standard feedforward neural networks, LSTM has feedback connections that make it a “general-purpose computer”. It can not only process single data points (such as images) but also entire sequences of data (such as speech or video). This short workshop will use the results in ml5.js charRNN() method to generate real-time interactive chat content and host it as a chatbot lived in Chrome Web Browser. Visit Making your first AI Chatbot for full details.

Incorporating digital fabrication techniques into the classroom for K-12 teachers and all art educators. Everyone is welcome from newcomers to technology masters!
STEAM is becoming an increasingly important piece in the current educational climate. Explore new ways of incorporating STEAM into your teaching practice! Learn new techniques through hands-on workshops and create a custom lesson plan ready to use in your own classroom!

Visit Creative Technologies Bootcamp 2019 for full details.

Creators Tech LLC is an NYC-based EdTech enterprise that strives to provide diversified learning experiences through new media forms. In the summer of 2019, Creators Tech collaborated with QC Maker Ltd, a leading maker space affiliated with Tsinghua University in China, and launched an international K12 Creative Technology summer Bootcamp program. 8 young learners aged 13 to 18 and 3 instructors from China will be visiting the Creative Technologies Certificate concentration at Teachers College, Columbia University. They will attend a 6-day creative technologies Bootcamp, designed and taught by CTC faculty and students at Teachers College, Columbia University. Visit CreatorsTech + CTC K12 Creative Tech Summer Camp for full details.

“DeCentralized” is an exhibition showcasing technology-infused recent works of instructors, visiting artists, and students in the Art and Art Education Program’s media art studio courses.  An artist presentation and discussion will take place on July 26th, 2 - 4 pm, followed by a reception at 4 - 6 pm. “DeCentralized” will be on display at Macy Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, from June 17-July 26th, 2019, Mon - Fri, 10 am- 6 pm. “DeCentralized” is curated by Ms. Dahye Kim, adjunct instructor and doctoral student at the program of Art and Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Visit Creative Technologies Exhibition Summer 2019 for full details. 

The expansion of technology has infused STEM principles, engineering, and scientific methods into the artistic process, blurring the boundaries between technology and art. This has also created new modes of collaboration among different disciplines and learning communities. Artists, makers, and researchers increasingly share expertise, interdisciplinary knowledge, and authorship. These new creative partnerships offer exciting opportunities to expand our own perspectives, but the entry point for these partnerships is not always readily apparent. The symposium explores the potential of education to bridge the gap between art and technology, bringing together disciplines and communities through new modes of collaboration. Visit Modes of Collaboration Creating Technologies Symposium V for full details. 

Incorporating digital fabrication techniques into the classroom for K-12 teachers and all art educators. Everyone is welcome from newcomers to technology masters!
STEAM is becoming an increasingly important piece in the current educational climate. Explore new ways of incorporating STEAM into your teaching practice! Learn new techniques through hands-on workshops and create a custom lesson plan ready to use in your own classroom! Visit Creative Technologies Bootcamp 2018 for full details.

“On Collaboration” is an exhibition showcasing recent works of instructors, visiting artists, students, and friends of the Creative Technology concentration in the Art and Art Education Program. Featured works explore the possibility of collaboration to revisit definitions, straddle divides, and transform communities into vibrant spaces for collective authorship and artistic creation. The exhibition will run in tandem with the Creative Technologies Symposium V, which takes place on July 19th from 1 pm - 6 pm. “On Collaboration” will be on display at Macy Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, from June 14 - July 19th, 2018, Mon - Fri, 10 AM - 6 PM. A public reception is planned for July 19th, 2018, from 5 - 7 PM. Two interactive performances from the exhibiting artists will accompany the reception. Visit On Collaboration for full details.

This event is a partnership between Creative Tech Week (CTW2018) and the Creative Technology Certificate (CTC) program at Teachers College, Columbia University. It is taught by CTC fellow Zhenzhen Qi. No prior computational art background is needed. Free for all to attend. Please bring a personal laptop. Visit Creative Tech Week (CTW) Workshop 2018 for full details. 

An exhibition of Creative Technologies by students of our CTC studio class in the Fall 2017 semester at the Luchsinger Gallery, curated by CTC faculty Erin Riley. 

Location: Greenwich Academy, 200 North Maple St. Greenwich, CT. 

Dates: Opening January 23rd, 2018. On view until February 10, 2018. 

Visit Art + Technology Exhibition for full details. 

Incorporating digital fabrication techniques into the classroom for K-12 teachers and all art educators. Everyone is welcome from newcomers to technology masters!
STEAM is becoming an increasingly important piece in the current educational climate. Explore new ways of incorporating STEAM into your teaching practice! Learn new techniques through hands-on workshops and create a custom lesson plan ready to use in your own classroom! Visit Creative Technology Bootcamp 2017 for full details.

Co-hosted with Creative Tech Week (CTW 2017), Computational Aesthetics is a workshop offered as part of the CTW 2017 Arts Hub Series. It is taught by CTC fellow, computational artist and educator Zhenzhen Qi. The workshop covers basic principles of computational aesthetics, simple coding exercises, and a lab session to help each attendee make their own computational artwork using Processing, a JAVA-based coding platform designed for visual artists and designers. Visit Computational Aesthetics Workshop 2017 for full details.

Co-hosted by the Creative Technologies track of the Art and Art Education Program at TC, the AET NAEA pre-conference will explore methods for using technologies to create communities in art-making and in art classrooms. This pre-conference invites art educators, technologists, and makers to engage in deep discussions about the ways digital technologies can be used in studio practice, classroom teaching, and research. Visit Creating Communities Through Technology for full details.

A symposium on higher art education to address critique in collaborative learning environments, including sessions on art-as-critique, critique-as-collaboration, and critique-as-pedagogy. Visit Art School Critique 2.0 for full details. 

Emerging technologies continue to change the making, teaching, and learning of art. The creative technologies symposium addresses these changes and engages artists, educators, and technologists in an ongoing conversation. While the previous symposia worked to define creative technologies as a means for artistic expression, the upcoming symposium considers the successes and barriers of implementation within various learning environments. What are some of the new pedagogies that help bring technology-infused art to students and teachers alike? If there is a lot of excitement about technology in art making, where does the resistance come from?  Visit Creative Technologies Symposium 2016 for full details. 

“New Gifts” is an exhibition showcasing the work of contemporary artists who push digital and emerging technologies beyond their functional capacity into the realm of the metaphor. Featured artists work at the intersection of the arts, sciences, and humanities; and employ technology as a catalyst for artistic expression, storytelling, or cultural exchange. Visit New Gifts for full details.