School for Poetic Computation

by ann It’s been one week since the 2017 fall semester students finished their 10 weeks at SFPC. Fueled by family dinners and home-brewed coffee, students pulled late nights to finish their ...

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blog post by ann (SFPC 2017) Students had a full week as they headed into the final stretch before the showcase (RSVP here !). They wrapped up their homemade computer and learned about install...

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post by ann (SFPC 2017) Thoughts have begun to turn to the final showcase which is only two weekends away (Mark your calendars for Nov 11–12!). Students spent time this week brainstorming ab...

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blog post by ann (SFPC 2017) It was yet another packed week for SFPC students as they enter the home stretch of the program. Students learned about loading and creating images in openFramework...

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blog post by ann (SFPC 2017) Time flies with week 5 marking the halfway point for SFPC’s class of fall 2017. Week 5 also marked the start of artist-in-residence Golan Levin’s two weeks at ...

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blog post by ann The week’s highlight included philosophical discussion about preservation, privacy, generative poetry and animation. Students packed a lot into a shortened schedule this wee...

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Announcing Learning to Teach Conference, January 20th, 2018 in NYC. Tickets Learning to Teach is a day-long conference for educators teaching computation in creative fields like art, design or...

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by ann Fall has finally arrived in New York City! Week 3 marked the last (hopefully) hot week of summer and cooler weather couldn’t have arrived soon enough for students. DAY 1: JOHN WHITN...

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by ann Week 2 of the fall semester marked the first full week of classes for SFPC. Energized after the weekend, students came ready to debate singularities, jump into soldering and coding, and...

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Blog Posting by ann (SFPC Fall 2017) Time does a funny thing at SFPC. Even though it’s only been one week since the fall semester officially began, it feels like we’ve known each other a lo...

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This school year SFPC offered an introduction to coding bootcamp for any of the incoming students who felt they might benefit. The bootcamp was led by Zach Lieberman with a focus on drawing and...

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We’re happy to announce the SFPC students of our Fall 2017, 10-week intensive program. We’re honored they can join us this semester and hope you will help us welcome them to NYC and our commu...

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For the fall 2017 SFPC session, we are holding SFPC salon for two-days with a variety of speakers including leading practitioners in the field, distinguished alumni, and friends of the school. Th...

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Blog post by Melanie Hoff On the final day of Code Narratives, SPFC’s 2017 two-week summer session, SFPC co-founder Taeyoon Choi guided the class through his personal approach to poetic co...

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Blog post by Melanie Hoff In the previous 7 days of Code Narratives, the students have developed a practice in which existing texts are treated as found objects to be altered and transformed i...

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Blog post by Melanie Hoff How does what we do for work, and pleasure follow or break codes established by states, nations, and international bodies? What means are available to challenge or ci...

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blog post by Melanie Hoff On days two through four of the summer 2017 session of Code Narratives, Allison Parrish taught a class about using natural language processing to “…to rip languag...

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blog post by Melanie Hoff Code Narratives , our two week summer session, opens with words from Zach and Taeyoon on the art, poetry, and computation embedded in the history of both Westbeth and...

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Today we’re excited to announce the new students for Code Narratives . This session will be taught by Allison Parrish , Ross Goodwin , Hannah Davis , Alexander Provan , and Taeyoon Choi . Todd...

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SFPC team will present Re-coded at Sónar+D festival in Barcelona.  http://sfpc.io/recoded/   “The School for Poetic Computation, in this exclusive collaboration with Absolut for Sonar 20...

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