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STEMartsLab@ThePASEO 2015

[usquare id=”1″] Electrofunk Mixtape: A Virtual Sounding Space | 3-day summer Lab Artist: Nettrice Gaskins, School: Taos Academy and Oo-oo nah Art School, Taos Pueblo Facilitator: Karin Moulton, Preview event: 6 August. Student performance: 25 & 26 September, ongoing Site: Stone House (in front of Taos Inn) Exploring the Aesthetics of Videomicrography | 2-day Lab…

July 29, 2015
TEEN STREET JOURNALISTS

In this special project, Megan Bowers Avina will be facilitating the Teen Street Journalists from the Taos Integrated School of the Arts (TISA). Avina is a nationally award winning photojournalist and Arts Curriculum Coordinator at TISA. Students will be covering PASEO and posting live on Instagram throughout the event including workshops and preparation before PASEO…

July 29, 2015
THE PASEO FESTIVAL

STEMarts Lab partnered with The PASEO a festival dedicated to bringing the art of installation, performance and projection to the streets of Taos, New Mexico. The PASEO creates a new platform for the public display of art within the Taos Historic District. From 2014-2019, the STEMarts@The PASEO Youth Program provided educational programming for our youth…

July 28, 2015
ENGAGE US!

WHO DO WE SERVE? Middle or high school teachers: We work with you to bring STEMarts projects into your classroom to enhance your curriculum. School administrators: We design STEMarts programming that engages students and teachers while meeting STEM standards. Museum /Festival Directors: We can add an innovative sci-art installation and educational component to your programming.…

July 28, 2015
Nettrice Gaskins

ELECTROFUNK MIXTAPE: A VIRTUAL SOUNDING SPACE ARTIST: Boston EVENT: 3-Day Summer Workshop SCHOOLS: Taos Academy and Oo-oonah Art Center, Taos Pueblo PREVIEW EVENT: August 6th PERFORMANCE : September 25, 26 This project takes the idea of the mixture and combines it with Alexander G. Weheliye’s notion of a “virtual sounding space that is marked by…

July 28, 2015
About the Founder

STEMarts LAB was founded by new media artist Agnes Chavez as a Research and Innovation platform for sci-art explorations applied to art and education (social practice). Agnes Chavez is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and social entrepreneur. She is the founder and developer of the Sube Teach language thru Art, Music and Games program, now in its…

July 28, 2015
How it Started

STEMarts started in 2009 as a pilot STEAM program at Taos Academy with a small grant from Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 2012 STEMarts was contracted by 516 Arts to design and coordinate the Education Program Director for the ISEA2012 Machine Wilderness event in Albuquerque. Through this project STEMarts expanded to develop the ISEA2012 STEMArts…

July 28, 2015
The PASEO 2015: Bring on the Electrofunk!

What do Electrofunk, Pueblo culture and Taos teenagers have in common? The answer. Nettrice Gaskins! I met Nettrice for the STEMarts@International Symposium of Electronic Arts(ISEA): Machine Wilderness event which took place in Albuquerque in 2012. We invited her to teach her Augmented Reality (AR) Mural workshop at Explora and I was blown away by AR…

July 28, 2015
PROJECTING PARTICLES: Havana Biennial 2015

Agnes Chavez and the STEMarts Lab were invited to the Havana Biennial 2015 to present the Projecting Particles workshop which explores particle physics through projection art. Cuban science students from a high school in Havana participated and performed their live projections at Parque Trillo.

June 21, 2015