Workshops
Nov 23 2024 to Nov 24 2024
Intro to Electronics for Artists (Weekend Intensive)
Learn the basics of electricity and build simple digital circuits with CMOS chips, transistors and LEDs.
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Dec 7 2024
Anti-Making Making Club #1: Laser Cutting 101
Learn to use, understand, and critique digital fabrication techniques with a community of well-meaning, anti-consumerist, anti-maker makers.
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Dec 14 2024
Co-Creative Code: Human-AI Art Lab with p5.js & Cursor
In this hands-on workshop, we'll combine human and computational expression, coding generative artworks in partnership with AI.
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Nov 9, 2024
Intro to Visualizing Sound with TouchDesigner
Get started with TouchDesigner, a tool for developing interactive visuals for live performance and art installations.
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Oct 27, 2024
Protecting Cultural Knowledge in New Media: First Steps Toward Community-Centred Digital Knowledge & Data Stewardship
Black, Indigenous, and Disability Justice (BIDJ) communities have been leaders in developing ethical, community-centered approaches to technology that emphasize accessibility, care, and cultural well-being. As digital technologies increasingly shape our world, it is essential for arts organizations and collectives to support these communities by respecting and learning from their cultural knowledge protocols.
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Oct 26 - Nov 2, 2024
Digital Dreamscapes (Series)
Learn collage and world-building techniques using Blender and New Art City to conduct collective and playful storytelling.
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Oct 13, 2024
Intersectional Tech Futures: Foregrounding Black, Indigenous, and Disability Justice Perspectives on Tech Literacy & Accessibility
"Intersectional Tech Futures" offers a foundational look at why Black, Indigenous, and Disability Justice perspectives are essential in tech literacy and accessibility initiatives.
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Oct 13, 2024
Reducing Harm in New Media: An Intersectional Exploration of Digital Community Protocols
This intro-level workshop examines how BIDJ perspectives intersect to inform harm reduction strategies in new media environments. It offers artists and arts workers both critical insights and practical tools for developing digital community protocols that prioritize accessibility, care, and equity, fostering online spaces that actively support community-building and intercultural collaboration.
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Jul 20, 2024
VF24 Workshop | Digital Existence Only!
Get introduced to Blender, an open-source 3D graphics software, through the creation of abstract scenes that can only exist in a virtual world. Participants will learn software workflow, object creation, texturing, lighting, and rendering.
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Jul 13, 2024
VF24 Workshop | Start Where You Are: Using Worldbuilding Tactics in Serious Games for Climate Change Adaptation
Engage in a worldbuilding exercise in this “game to build a game” on the complex real-world problem of climate crisis in Toronto, working with situational and publicly available data through active group facilitation.
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Jul 2, 2024
forest of juxtaposition: radical disconnectedness in Kinopio
Part of our deu(s ex machina) Game Jam, this workshop challenges participants to reflect on game design structures.
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Jun 17, 2024
expressing ideas in the moment: haiku games with Downpour
Create brief and evocative interactive experiences in Downpour, an easy-to-use tool for making games on your phone.