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CSTS Public Engagement Collaborates with FRESHBRAIN Center for Science, Technology, and Society to Collaborate in FreshBrain Contemporary New Media Art Contest. Katie Vann, CSTS Assistant Director of Public Engagement will serve as an expert panelist for the upcoming FreshBrain Contemporary New Media Art Contest http://www.freshbrain.org.  FreshBrain is an open and free web site that provides teens with the opportunity to explore, engage, and create through activities and projects. FreshBrain takes advantage of the latest technologies, such as web conferencing and social networking, to provide a very progressive environment where teens can complete activities and work together on projects. This experience is enhanced with Advisors, available to support and mentor teens who are working on projects, with the intention of increasing the likelihood of success. In addition, FreshBrain provides teens with tools and training in the latest technologies to complete these projects. Providing the latest tools in technology, and a social interactive networking environment, has enabled teens to explore, create, and share with others. A result of pulling these two key online arenas together into one solution has enabled FreshBrain to attract teens comfortable with technology and communicating online. Creations from FreshBrain users range from music videos to logo designs. New media art is an art genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art technologies, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology. This FreshBrain Contemporary New Media Art Contest provides teenagers the opportunity to show off their skills; build their portfolios, and to gain some recognition from the Santa Clara University de Saisset museum, which is currently showcasing web-based, digital, and electronic new media art in their current exhibit, Tech Tools of the Trade: Contemporary New Media Art. Students are invited to create a new media art piece that comments on the theme of "Technology: Hope and Promise”: Technology enters our lives through all avenues: home life, school, music, sports, medical treatments, after-school activities, even our country's defense systems. What assumptions do we have about technology? Will it solve our problems and make our lives easier? Or is there a chance that technology will fail us or bring about a darker side of society? For more information see https://freshbrain.org/activity/contemporary-new-media-art-contest |
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