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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Sep 25, 2014
Creating Images from Code Using Processing
This workshop focuses on simple techniques for making art based on code. These techniques can be applied to algorithmic art, data visualization, or graphic design.
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Sep 18, 2014
Introduction to Video Glitch Processes
This workshop will include a brief artist talk about glitch and glitch art techniques, an overview and exploration of the software necessary to glitch video, tips on where to source video material and what kinds of material are best to work with, an introduction to various experimental techniques and methods of outputting the files.
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Sep 4, 2014
Turn Anything Into An Interactive Controller: MaKey MaKey Workshop with Pearl Chen
Join in on this 3-hour, hands-on workshop to explore what you can do with physical computing. Use a real banana to enhance a banana throwing game. Use real water to enhance a swimming tutorial app. Use tilt sensors to add physical exercising to any software program. Wherever your imagination takes you.
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Aug 23, 2014
Summer Sampler Series: Processing Quick Class
In the Processing Quick Class, you'll learn the basics of creative coding, using the Processing language.
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Aug 14, 2014
Creating Interactive Art Installations, Part 3: Interactive Video
In the final workshop of this series, we will learn how to detect user presence and interaction. We'll use a webcam as an input to trigger events, and explore a number of different techniques that allow your project to "see" people around them and respond accordingly.
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Aug 7, 2014
Creating Interactive Art Installations, Part 2: Introduction to Interactive Audio
In this second workshop in the series, we will get familiar with the basics of digital audio and how to use live audio to make sound reactive work!
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Jul 31, 2014
Creating Interactive Art Installations, Part 1: Introduction to Max 6
In the first workshop of the series, we'll learn the basics of manipulating both pre-recorded and live video feeds in real-time. To get there, we'll use the Max 6 programming environment.
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Jul 17, 2014
Summer Sampler Series: Arduino Quick Class
In the Arduino Quick Class, we'll introduce students to the most common tool used today to create physical, interactive projects. If you've seen a piece of interactive, robotic, or electronic art recently that made you say "How'd they do that?" there's a pretty good chance that the answer is: "Arduino."
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Jul 3 - 17, 2014
Learn to Program Video Games with Stencyl
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to build a game with movement, physics, graphics, and interactivity, and also learn core coding and logic flow concepts that are applicable to almost all programming languages and frameworks.