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The Mount Vernon Public Library

The Mount Vernon Public Library

© Manny Tejeda Photography

Pvblic Mission

Pvblic Mission

The mission of the Mount Vernon Public Library is to provide a safe, accessible facility where people, information, and ideas come together to enrich lives and build community, and where lifelong habits of learning, self-improvement and self-expression are championed.

Inside the Library

Inside the Library

One of the first libraries in Westchester County and one of the largest in the NY Metro Area.

Carnegie Vaulted Ceiling, Alfred Morton Githens, c.1917

'Decorative composition of Gobelin Tapestries' Louise Brann, 1936-37

'Decorative composition of Gobelin Tapestries' Louise Brann, 1936-37

The Computer Lab

The Computer Lab

Continue to the classroom

©Manny Tejeda Photography

ABOUT

Glitch is a one week computer programming workshop, teaching creative coding at the elementary school level using Scratch, a free educational product from the MIT Media Lab.

This website presents the lessons and student works created during the Spring 2016 Glitch event held at the Mt. Vernon Public Library, March 21-25, 2016. The Glitch event was attended by 14 students between the ages of 6 and 11 years old.

 

Glitch is education as art form following Tania Bruguera's criteria for Arte Útil. Joseph Beuys' art as social-sculpture is applied by teaching computer programming as the manifestation of a shared technological heritage. Edward Burger’s pedagogy of failure is extended into an aesthetic goal.

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