My Journey: Making Interactive Art with Technology

Learn how a creative engineer at Meow Wolf helps to build interactive art installations that bring together art and engineering.

This event will take place virtually, over Zoom Webinar. Registrants will be emailed the link to join one week before the event.

Recommended for grades 6-12.

About the speaker:

Danny Bazo is a Creative Engineer at Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Applying his experience ranging from robotics to electronic music to game design, Danny helps his team build interactive art installations that immerse visitors in mind-blowing new worlds. Danny's journey has allowed him to bring together engineering and art in ways he never imagined--while along the way collaborating with NASA scientists, visual artists, storytellers, educators, and makers of all kinds.

About My Journey Chats: This weekly series of virtual discussions is designed to give K-12 students an opportunity to hear directly from professionals and to expose students to pathways available to them with a strong foundation in computer science. Discussions are structured as informal Q&As lasting 30 minutes. Topics include:

• How the speaker came to be where they are today, including other career paths they considered and obstacles they faced
• Descriptions of the speaker’s work and the role that computer science plays
• The role that mentors, professional connections, and support networks have played in their career journeys

For more details, visit code.org/csjourneys/csadventures