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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Apr 18 - May 2, 2017
Interactive Installations in Max 7 (series): Intro to Max 7
In this workshop, you will learn the ins and outs of the Max 7 visual programming environment as well as some universal concepts at the core of most programming languages (and electronics).
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Apr 11, 2017
Machinima: Video Games as Found Footage
Learn some techniques for creating your own Machinima artworks with Clint Enns! Machinima is a genre of cinema in which video game footage is used to create movies or moving image art.
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Mar 25, 2017
Sonic Geography
Join sound artist and sonic adventurer Dan Tapper for an exploration into sound and place. The workshop will focus on delving into the often-overlooked sounds of the world around us through sound walking and field recording exercises.
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Mar 5, 2017
Heavy Lifting, Light Machining
This workshop is an introduction to basic mechanics and basic machining. Learn how to operate the mill and the lathe for making a motor coupling and shaft keyway, for a bore fitted gear.
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Mar 4, 2017
Projection Mapping for Artists
This workshop is intended for artists interested in working with videos and projections for art installations of any size.
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Feb 7, 2017
Mozzi Theremin!
By the end of the workshop students will be able to make a Theremin-like instrument that can create sounds through bodily movement.
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Feb 4, 2017
Intro to 3d Printing and Scanning for Artists
In this introductory, yet in-depth workshop, participants will explore the limitations of 3D Scanning and Printing vs good use cases, use of laser/turntable scanning, outline of post-processing using nextengine software, and post-process a model into a watertight mesh.
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Jan 24 - 31, 2017
Intro to Arduino for Artists: Series
In this two-part series, participants will be introduced to creative coding, circuit construction, sensors and actuators.
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Jan 14, 2017
Projection Mapping for Artists
This workshop is intended for artists interested in working with videos and projections for art installations of any size.