CoLab is CultureHub’s free art & technology program created with young artists in mind. Explore micro-courses taught by CultureHub artists, who break down their own creative approaches to emerging technological tools. Learn a range of skills from music production, creative coding, AR, yoga, and more.
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How To Use Micro-Courses
As an Individual
Select CoLab micro-courses that interest
you and learn at your own pace. Leave
time between each instructional video
to try out what you’ve learned.
As a Group
Select CoLab micro-courses that interest
a group of friends, family, or fellow
students. Schedule regular meeting times
to view instructional videos, problem
solve, and share creations.
As a Teacher
Supplement your online teaching practice
by selecting any of the current
CoLab micro-courses to facilitate with
your class. Interested in having teaching
artists visit your class virtually? Reach out!
Expanding Your crEativE PracticE
with Mx. Oops
Use the tools of yoga—breath, movement, and meditation—to develop a focused and open presence. Learn the skills to take better care of your mind and body, and explore how to bring this fresh energy to your creative production.
Talking MachinE
with Tiri Kananuruk
Learn about talking machines, looking through their history and imagining their future. Explore voice interfaces and their role in technology, design, art and culture. Take advantage of existing technologies like p5.js to create your own talking machines. Before you begin watching the micro-course videos below, check out the Talking Machine syllabus.
crEativE coding: DIY WEbcam FiltErs
with Olivia Jack
An introduction to creating your own webcam filters using computer code. Use the hydra video synthesizer to explore the basics of javascript, color, glitching, interactivity, and share your creation online. No experience necessary.
Through thE LEns
with Kalada Halliday
Gain insight into the nature of visual language. Learn how images can connect us, reflect us and change us—individually, and as a society. Compassionately photograph individuals, families, and communities, in a way that affirms their humanity, rather than diminishing it.
Masks & StorytElling with Spark AR
with Ashley Jane Lewis
Masks have a long history of creative expression, protection, disguise, symbolism and storytelling. With their rise of popularity on social media, are the creative masks of our times face filters? With today's technology, the use of face filters becomes both a place for artistic exploration as well as technological concern. To think deeply about this we need to understand how this technology works! Using a free software called Spark AR as a coding sketchbook, each segment in this series will prompt critical conversations about privacy and explore personal storytelling while teaching participants how to make simple face filters.
crEativE REsiliEncE & REsourcEFulnEss with Film collagE
with Ali Santana
Learn the basics of video editing and tips and tricks on how to be resourceful and creative at home. Multi-disciplinary artist and educator Ali Santana will demonstrate his method of translating personal experience and emotion into abstract video art. Ali will explain his work, process, and appreciation for abstract storytelling using found footage and free software.
ThE InnEr, OutEr SpacE: Think Big By Working Small
with Eli Smith
What does it mean to think, feel and work spatially? This course is an introduction to the world of miniatures for artists who want to make work that is either very big or very small. Learn how to make a model, how to bring it to life, and how to incorporate it into the creative process. Questions about viewership, time and scale will provide the backbone of our creative conversation. For this micro-course, PDFs are available to accompany each video: Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Conclusion.
Stop-Motion SElF-PortraiturE
with Kameron Neal
In this module with Kameron Neal, we will look at the lineage of self-portraiture in the age of social media. Students will explore short-form storytelling by using their phones and their bodies to create kinetic stop-motion self-portrait .gifs.
EmbodiEd TEchnologiEs
with Yo-Yo Lin
Through this course with Yo-Yo Lin, we will learn how to gather soft data, exploring how we can develop a practice of collecting and self-archiving our embodied experiences for deeper self and communal knowledge. We will utilize journaling tools to gather soft data in our body-minds. Then using our mobile devices and the Internet, we will gather videos, photos, and writings to create a collage that reflects our soft data. We will learn how to create a virtual camera using OBS Studio to perform or “video jockey” our collages live on Zoom with each other. Through this process, we will reflect on how we may collectively hold space for our embodied experiences using digital technologies as a framework, tool, and stage.
DIY IntEractivE Music VidEo
with Olivia Jack
Create your own interactive music video embedded in a website with Olivia Jack. We will use HTML, CSS, and hydra to generate a custom website with embedded audio and interactive visual effects. The tutorial is based off of this example, which you can remix by adding your own audio and video clips and effects. No experience necessary! This is a taster of programming using web technologies to make a small, shareable audiovisual website.
