Educational Activities

Ada X develops educational activities designed to offer young audiences an opportunity to discover media art creation. For more information about our workshops and to use our services, please contact mediation[at]ada-x.org

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Sensory Listening Workshop with Salima Punjani

11 May 2021

educational activities workshop
Sensory Listening Workshop With Salima Punjani Tuesday 11 may 2021, 5pm – 7pm FREE | Registration required English (French translation available) On Zoom Join us for a listening party with artist Salima Punjani ! More like a rest-stop than a work-shop, this event is inspired… Read More

Design Your Own Gentle Bot

11 April 2021

educational activities
FAMILY ACTIVITY on Zoom Sunday April 11 2021 1 – 2:30 pm FREE | Registration required Bilingual FR/EN Do robots have a personality? If you were a bot, what kind would you be? What kind of world would you want to live in? Inspired by… Read More

Dismantling Your Electronics

25 November 2020

educational activities festival
Presented by Ada X as part of the HTMlles festival Dismantling Your Electronics | Lou Fozin Workshop Wednesday, November 25, 5 pm – 7 pm Online (Zoom + Mural) | Registration at mediation@ada-x.org Designed for teens and young adults, this trading-game based online workshop encourages… Read More

Create a zine in the X-cosmos-X!

14 June 2020

educational activities
  FAMILY ACTIVITY Create a zine in the X-cosmos-X! Sunday June 14th 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. FREE | Registration required Using the collaborative platform Mural.co, parents and children can create a zine inspired by Olivia McGilchrist’s work X-cosmos-X, presented as part of the online… Read More

**POSTPONED** | WORKSHOP FOR FAMILIES | Green Gazing

1 March 2020

educational activities
  WORKSHOP FOR FAMILIES | Green Gazing Artists / facilitators :  Lesley Marshall + Ashley Bowa **POSTPONED** (date TBD) Join us for a late-winter workshop inspired by the installation Green Gazing by Lesley Marshall and Ashley Bowa, which invites community reflection on our relationship to living… Read More

Floral Sleep | ASMR for families

26 January 2020

educational activities
WORKSHOP | Floral Sleep Artists: Coral Short Saturday, January 25, 2020 2 pm – 5 pm At Studio XX FREE | Registration is required Floral Sleep is a relaxation session and a subtle exploration of sounds emitted by nature, in the spirit of ASMR*. The… Read More

LES COURANTS | L’état des matières II | Katherine Melançon

9 November 2019

educational activities exhibition
Exhibition from November 9, 2019 to January 5, 2020 At Maison Pierre-Chartrand 8000 Boulevard Gouin E, Rivière-des-Prairies, Montréal Free entrance – Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday 12pm to 5pm Katherine Melançon’s photographic and installation practice focuses on the representation of flora. Through various simple manipulations, welcoming accidents generated… Read More

KeyCap Club: extraterrestrial communication

15 September 2019

educational activities
  Artist / instructor: Marie-Andrée Pellerin Sunday, September 15 1 pm – 5 pm Free | Registration required In this sound creation workshop, children and parents transform keyboards into extraterrestrial communication devices! Participants will start by recording sounds before making an audio composition using the… Read More

LES COURANTS | L’état des matières II + ateliers | Katherine Melançon

10 September 2019

educational activities exhibition
As part of its Slow Tech programming, Studio XX presents Les courants, a digital arts initiation program for young people and families in Rivière-des-Prairies. PHASE 1 : L’ÉTAT DES MATIÈRES II Katherine Melançon and students from Jean-Grou School Since September 2019, thirty-five students from Jean-Grou School have been… Read More

Speculative Storytelling with Machine Learning

23 May 2019

educational activities
Ada X regularly offers introductory media arts workshops for young people. In the Speculative Storytelling with Machine Learning workshop, participants discover machine learning by following coding instructions to generate a text from their own selection of stories. The process can be paused, stopped, and restarted multiple times, with outputs varying… Read More

360 Video and Virtual Reality

23 May 2019

educational activities
Ada X regularly offers introductory media arts workshops for young people. In the 360 Video and Virtual Reality workshop, participants are introduced to the creative possibilities of virtual reality (VR). This happens through a 3-step process, where participants first create image sequences in 360 video, then integrate the sequences into… Read More