Drumhenge
Drumhenge
Philadelphia, PA
Designed and built over the course of a year, Drumhenge is a collaboration between artist Peter English and researcher Jeff Gregorio at the ExCITe Center. It takes traditional approaches to percussion and turns them on their heads, using technology to re-evision the medium. Part art installation,...
Saturday, June 17 2017
3:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Learning Innovation Conversation Leah Buechley
Learning Innovation Conversation Leah Buechley
Philadelphia, PA
Leah Buechley is a designer, engineer, and educator whose work explores intersections and juxtapositions–of “high” and “low” technologies, new and ancient materials, and masculine and feminine making traditions. Her inventions include the LilyPad Arduino toolkit. In this talk, Leah will share he...
Tuesday, May 23 2017
6:00 PM
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8:00 PM
Learning Innovation Conversation with Mimi Ito
Learning Innovation Conversation with Mimi Ito
Philadelphia, PA
Please join ExCITe to welcome Mizuko (Mimi) Ito as the next speaker in our Learning Innovation Conversation series. We're looking forward to hearing her take on creative approaches to learning based on her experience as a cultural anthropologist of technology use, focusing on children and youth’...
Tuesday, March 21 2017
6:00 PM
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8:00 PM
3rd Annual STEAM Education Workshop
3rd Annual STEAM Education Workshop
Philadelphia, PA
For the third year, we will be convening education innovators. At ExCITe, STEAM is more than education. It’s the belief that the creativity and “maker” spirit that is common to both the Arts & Design and the STEM fields provides a relentless source of inspiration and innovation. Most importantly,...
Monday, February 20 2017
9:30 AM
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3:00 PM
Music Hackathon
Music Hackathon
Philadelphia, PA
“THERE IS NOTHING SHOCKINGLY MODERN ABOUT THE DYNAMIC BETWEEN ARTISTIC CREATION & TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION… ART & TECHNOLOGY HAVE ALWAYS MOVED HAND IN HAND”- John Adams (the composer, not the dead president) The ExCITe Center invites you to a Music Hackathon, January 28-29th, 2017 at Drexel Uni...
Sat, Jan 28 2017
9:00 AM
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Sun, Jan 29 2017
3:00 PM
Learning Innovation Conversations: John Maeda
Learning Innovation Conversations: John Maeda
Philadelphia, PA
John Maeda, an engineer turned artist turned executive, who at his core is a designer, is a boundary-pushing, creative leader who believes the best way to learn is to do (and learn from failure while doing it). Maeda is currently Global Head, Computational Design and Inclusion at Automattic (the...
Tuesday, January 24 2017
6:00 PM
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8:00 PM
Computational Design Seminar, Intermediate to Advanced
Computational Design Seminar, Intermediate to Advanced
Philadelphia, PA
As design has moved to fully digital over the last two decades, a new generation of designers in the tech industry are using code and data to serve an expanded set of user needs. These designers are utilizing new advancements in tools and platforms to take classical design into this new century w...
Tuesday, January 24 2017
1:30 PM
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4:00 PM
