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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May 7 - 21, 2015
Interactive Installations in Max 7: A 3-Part Series
In this workshop, we will learn the ins and outs of the Max 7 programming environment as well as some universal concepts to most programming languages and electronics while learning the basics of manipulating both pre-recorded and live video feeds in real-time!
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Apr 16 - 30, 2015
Arduino for Artists: a 3-Part Series
In the Arduino for Artists series, you will be introduced to creative coding, circuit construction, sensors, actuators and much more.
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Feb 21, 2015
Intro to Interactive Art with Max 7
This workshop will give an overview of how to trigger videos using a camera input. As we go through the process, we'll learn how to navigate the Max 6 interface, and learn very basic approaches to initiating interaction with accessible hardware tools.
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Feb 19, 2015
Vector Festival Workshop: Glitch.Jam.3
Glitch.Jam is a part-workshop/ part jam, where Team Vector will walk you through the basics of circuit bending battery operated / plug and play gaming devices. We’ll show you how to crack them open, and how to employ a variety of techniques to create your own game glitches!
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Nov 29, 2014
The Craft of Electronic Fabrication with Rob Cruickshank
This workshop covers tricks and tips for good breadboarding, soldering techniques for everything from circuit boards to audio connectors, how to mount controls such as switches and potentiometers, how to wire various sorts of connectors, and how to deal with wire and cable, both inside a project, and in larger installations.
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Nov 13, 2014
Creative App Development, Part 3: Intermediate Interface, and Introducing Swift
In this last session of a three-part series, we'll move on from Objective-C to do a little bit of overview and integration of Apple's new Swift programming language. Be the first one of your friends to code in the hip new style!
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Nov 6, 2014
Creative App Development Part 2: Interface Design for Desktop and iOS
In just a few lessons, you will pick up the basics of writing and compiling your code in Apple’s development environment, XCode, language basics in Objective-C, and navigating the Cocoa framework.
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Oct 30, 2014
Creative App Development, Part 1: Objective-C and Cocoa fundamentals
In just a few lessons, you will pick up the basics of writing and compiling your code in Apple’s development environment, XCode, language basics in Objective-C, and navigating the Cocoa framework.
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Oct 18 - 19, 2014
Intro to Electronics with Rob Cruickshank
In this workshop we will cover the basics of electricity, starting with Ohm’s Law, work our way up to building simple digital circuits with CMOS chips, transistors and LEDs, and discuss how to interface these circuits with the ‘real world’ of motors, sensors, and other devices.