This workshop is aimed at children and teenagers who benefit from social care. It was open to any group of people fulfilling this requirement, and up to 14 participants. We used computers in order to use Photopea, an online image editor, in which we used the face mesh references distributed by Meta on their website. The idea was to draw the avatar’s face using this face mesh as reference. We also used Meta Spark Studio and Meta Spark Player, two softwares developed by Meta and used to create unique augmented reality content. We then imported the avatar that participants created on a face mesh to create the filter.

This 3-hour long workshop was conducted by our cultural and digital mediators on a few occurrences in Marseille, in our MEDIALAB, a multimedia laboratory for experimentation and democratization of digital, artistic and cultural practices located in la Friche la Belle de Mai.

This workshop is part of a program called “Aires Numériques”, a free program for social workers and the people they care for during the summer holidays. This workshop was very well received by the public as a way to address the way we use filters and social media, and as a way to create digital art in a fun, playful way, as well as a way to develop a new understanding of the way digital forms we see or use everyday are created.