Workshops
Jun 28 2025
Shadow & Light: Projection Mapping & Shadow Puppetry Workshop
An intergenerational workshop where adults learn projection mapping, kids create shadow puppets, and together they stage a playful performance—blending storytelling and technology in a hands-on creative experience.
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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 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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Oct 11 - 25, 2016
Intro to Arduino for Artists Series - 3 part
In this three-part series, participants will be introduced to creative coding, circuit construction, sensors and actuators. Whether you are interested in robotics, sound, light art, or just plain old tinkering, these workshops are a great place to develop your artistic ideas and build working prototypes.