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Fais ta valise
January 20, 2011
ESKI shows its work to Montreal students
For the third time, Vincent Leclerc, ESKI’s director, met with Montreal students as part of an educational and artistic project called Fais ta Valise. This network brings together a number of schools with the goal of giving young Montreal students a glimpse of innovative work in the digital arts. The meetings with Vincent and ESKI are among the most pertinent of the series, according to Mickaël Lafontaine, the head of the project. He adds, “Vincent is an excellent communicator. The students leave astounded.”
On this visit, Vincent met with second grade students from Saint-Henri schools and sixth graders from Hochelaga, telling them about his professional career, what inspires him, his artistic approach, as well as about ESKI’s numerous technological accomplishments and the electronic components used to create them. According to him, Fais ta Valise is “[…] a great opportunity to show these students a path of study that leads them to a career in technological design.”
At this particular meeting, the students from Saint-Henri went wild for the PixMob technology used at the Kinect launch. The group from Hochelaga adored Stimulux and the glowing silhouettes of the Association of Party Pros.
The children present must now think up their innovative design projects in digital arts. The first group will make interactive crayons with accessories that allow one to draw on a video projector by tracking the movement of the body or an object in space. As for the second group, they will make a canon-like interactive light and sound projector that will allow them to present a large mosaic in a public place that interacts with passers-by.
“These meetings with artists are a unique opportunity for these students. They learn that by using tools from their everyday lives, like mathematics and the Internet, one can create mind-blowing interactive projects.”
