Toronto Kids Digital Festival
March 12- 14, 2019
Open Space Gallery at Ontario College of Art and Design University
LEARN, PLAY, ENGAGE.
Toronto Kids Digital Festival brings together toys, artists, designers, technologist, academics, youth inventors, and more for an interactive event or"digital sandbox." The festival was composed of an exhibition, workshops, talks and events, all focusing on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) and highlighting learning through play.
Through Project-Based and STEAM learning approach, young digital makers learn not only hard skills in technology and craftsmanship, but also critical and design thinking, idea development, and interdisciplinary knowledge.
Presented by the Virtute Innovation and Art School.
An Art Calorie Production.
TKDL emerges from the mission to enhance digital literacy in kids. Children come in contact with increasingly assorted and sophisticated digital tools to navigate. KDL strives to introduce the skills and 21st century tools to help children realize the far-reaching potentials of the digital realm.
Video documentation
Artworks by:
Switch Wall & Graffiti Mirror. Owen Lowery
Mécaniques Imaginaires. Scenocosme
Music Sticky Notes. Hope Moore
Schwister. Electric Perfume
REWILDING. Michael Carter
Space Box. Emergent Media Center at Champlain College
Tinker Box. Frank Ferrao
Toronto Skyline. Olga Nabatova
Melencolia II. Tobias Williams
Products and Toys:
Prosthetic Reality. EYEJACK
Wonderscope Augmented Reality. Wonderscope/ Within
Itty Bitty Buggy. Microduino Inc.
3D Food Printer brought by the Virtue Institute
Robot Battle by GANKER
3D doodle pen
Talks and Workshops by:
Kelvin Doe, a self-taught, youth engineer
Owen Lowery
Virtute Innovation and Art School
