Workshops
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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Apr 10 - 17, 2018
Intro to Electronics for Artists
This workshop, geared to artists, is for those new in electronics, or for those who need a refresher.
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Nov 25, 2017
Light, Performance and the Stage: Projection Mapping for Theatre
Build on the foundational skills of projection mapping by designing a functioning theatre set with light! This course will invite actors to collaborate with workshop participants to design an assigned scene, which will feature projection mapping as both a narrative device and set design technique.
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Nov 14 - 21, 2017
Intro to Processing for Artists
Learn the basics of Processing, an indispensable programming tool for artists. Join Tess Sutherland as she teaches the ABC’s of algorithmic drawing and interactive animations
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Nov 11, 2017
Projection Mapping for Artists
This workshop, led by Maziar Ghaderi, is intended for artists interested in working with videos and projections for art installations of any size.
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Nov 7, 2017
Intro to Op Amps and Analog Electronics
In this workshop we'll learn the basics of op amps, (including why they are called "op-amps"!)
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Oct 21, 2017
From Dust to Deep Learning: an Intro to Generative Poetry
Join digital-poet David Jhave Johnston to trace a few histories of computational poetry, speculate on future poetry, and learn how to produce generative poetry.
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Oct 17 - 24, 2017
Intro to Electronics for Artists
This workshop, geared to artists, is for those new in electronics, or for those who need a refresher. You will learn the basics of electricity starting with Ohm’s Law and work your way up to building simple digital circuits with CMOS chips, transistors and LEDs. You will learn how to interface these circuits with motors, sensors and other devices.
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Oct 5 - 12, 2017
Biomedia: Caring for Home-Grown Cultures
Learn to make biological media at home and start growing cultures of attractive and intelligent slime mold (a.k.a Physarum Polycephalum). Sarah Choukah will introduce slime mold's amazing potential for collaboration at the intersection of art, science and technology.
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Sep 23 - 30, 2017
Objective Functions: Creating Images with Neural Networks
In this two-part workshop, we will study neural networks, and how algorithms originally designed to allow computers to recognize the objects in photographs have been repurposed to instead create new images.