About Kidseye@Tate

Kidseye@Tate is a partnership project about digital learning, run in collaboration with Tate Modern Interpretation & Education department, the Society of Old and New Media in Amsterdam, and Tate National Programmes.

Kidseye@Tate forms part of Tate Modern's ambition to enable many different voices and meanings to interpret the Tate collection both inside and outside the gallery. Through this pilot phase of the project we also aim to explore the potential for remote partnerships, both nationally and internationally, through creating an online community and testing the methodology of distance learning. Children and teachers alike will be introduced to the web as a creative, communicative and expressive medium.

The project has also been developed in recognition that increasingly digital technology will play a viable role in enabling our visitors to better understand, enjoy and interrogate our collection. We value children's opinions on art and their active role as explorers and researchers of visual culture. Kidseye@Tate is an online journal in which young visitors, aged between 7 and 11, creatively explore their responses to Tate Modern and works in Collection 2000.

For this pilot phase we are working with primary school children age 8 to 11 from Charles Dickens School in Southwark, London. The project consists of a gallery workshop facilitated by artist educator Roy Pickering and a school residency with digital artist Paul Howard.


The first prototype of KidsEye was developed in 1998 to enable children to contribute to our collective digital heritage. Since then KidsEye has developed to a fully functional online newspaper which enables children to be reporters on special events like festivals, workshops or schoolprojects. The contributions may vary from texts, pictures, digital drawings and collages. Webcams are used to take pictures of objects or drawings that should be included in the newspaper.

Anybody with internetacces can go through the contributions in the newspaper. Everytime you log in, a fresh homepage is generated, which offers acces to different sections of the newspaper. A visit to Kidseye offers a unique view on the world of children for grown ups and other children alike. If you want to know more about KidsEye, go to http://www.waag.org contact Emilie Randoe (randoe@waag.org) at the Society for Old and New Media.

People

Tate Modern:
Helen Charman: Curator Schools Programmes, Tate Modern Interpretation & Education
Honor Harger: Webcasting Curator Tate Modern Interpretation & Education

Workshop Leaders/Artists:
Paul Howard
Roy Pickering

The Society of Old and New Media:
Roos Eisma: Senior software designer
Janine Huizenga: Senior design
Sandra Koch: Junior design
Marco Meijer: Junior design
Emilie Randoe: Creative learning
Dimitri Visser: Project management

Charles Dickens Primary School:
Alan Birch: ICT Co-ordinator
Elizabeth Owens: Head teacher

Lisa Haskel: Independent project co-ordinator for National Programmes