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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Jan 10 - 17, 2017

Intro to Electronics for Artists (Series)

In this workshop, you will learn the basics of electricity starting with Ohm’s Law, work your way up to building simple digital circuits with CMOS chips, transistors and LEDs, then learn how to interface these circuits with motors, sensors and other devices.  

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Nov 17, 2016

Make it Move! Introduction to Motors for Artists

In this workshop, we’ll explain some basic principles of mechanics, then go on to explain how different types of motors work.

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Nov 15, 2016

Social in the Studio: with Dustin Wilson

In this workshop, Dustin Wilson will introduce Delta City; a procedurally generated digital construct and model control structure for housing post-singularity consciousness. Following the presentation, we will continue the conversation as we use the Unity3D game design engine in an attempt to build autonomous simulated universes. 

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Nov 8, 2016

Intro to Game Boy Chiptunes

Learn to synthesize sounds and compose music using the Nintendo Game Boy. 

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Nov 5, 2016

Ultrasonic Hackduino Pedal

Learn to hack an analog guitar pedal and control its effects with an Arduino microcontroller and ultrasonic sensor.

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Nov 1, 2016

Obtuse Nature - Repurposing Natural Systems for Computational Art

This workshop will provide the opportunity for participants to work with a number of naturally inspired algorithms, they will then be guided through how to develop and artistically re-purpose these simple systems creating intricate and individually unique generative works of art.

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Oct 23, 2016

Out Through the Outlet: Making sounds in real time with Bela and Pure Data

In this workshop, you’ll get an introduction to Bela, a platform for ultra-low latency audio and sensor processing. You’ll get to know Bela, become familiar with what’s involved in real-time digital signal processing, and discover how to use Pure Data with Bela to control sensors and make sounds. 

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Oct 20 - 27, 2016

Dream and Iterate: Series

This two part course will be part lecture part workshop on neural networks and other techniques for making images with code.

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Oct 15, 2016

Intro to 3D Scanning and Printing for Artists

This is an introductory, yet in depth workshop the process of 3D Scanning and Printing. 

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