Workshops
Jul 11 2025
VF25 | My Computer and I Watch Each Other (Digital Embodiment Poetics)
Explore how body gestures can generate poetic texts, visual fragments, and ambient responses using p5.js and MediaPipe to create a browser-based interactive artwork.
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Jul 13 2025
VF25 | Pocket Portal Power Play: Wi-Fi Access Points with a Twist
Learn how to create a custom Wi-Fi access point and web server which will appear as public Wi-Fi to surrounding devices and display your custom site.
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Jul 16 2025
VF25 | Ritual of Reuse
You’re invited to bid farewell to, and find new life for, deceased game controllers. By repairing our relationships with broken technologies, can we repair our relationships with each other and our larger ecosystems? In this ceremonial teardown, we reflect on hardware life-cycles and the physical footprints left by our technologies.
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Jul 19 2025
VF25 | Ephemeral Matter: Hand Sculpted 3D Printing
Sculpt by hand, 3D scan, and 3D print a unique personal effigy using multiple material filaments in this beginner-friendly, hands-on intro to 3D printing and OrcaSlicer.
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Jul 26 2025
VF25 | 3D Scanned Portraiture
Create a personalized 3D-scanned portrait using Blender and a handheld scanner. This fun, hands-on workshop is ideal for those with basic 3D skills—perfect for a profile picture with flair!
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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 20, 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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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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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.