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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Jun 13 - 27, 2013

The Ultimate Intro to Arduino Workshop Series. 3 Parts!

In this 3-part workshop, we'll learn the basics: Connecting input sensors, connecting outputs, and using serial data to communicate between the Arduino and a computer.

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Jun 6, 2013

Retro-Death Telegraphy: Part of the 2013 Subtle Technologies Festival

…an experimental laboratory for the construction of equipment to test theories of communication with the Unknown

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Jun 1, 2013

Sound Art in Pure Data

In our second Pure Data workshop, we'll apply what we picked up in the first session to sound: recording it, playing it back and making it do strange and unpredictable things. 

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May 30, 2013

Glitch: Embracing the Mistake

This session will focus on that one key concept - the mistake - and see how adding intention to mistakes has birthed the Glitch movement in art. 

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May 25, 2013

Interactive Video in Pure Data

In one afternoon, you'll learn how to make interactive, sound-responsive video using a totally free visual programming environment called Pure Data.

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May 11, 2013

Electronics Fabrication

Getting your project working in the lab is only the first step! We’ll show you how to build it to survive, and to look good while doing it.

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Apr 24, 2013

Intro to Computer Vision with OpenFrameworks

This workshop will get you started writing code in openFrameworks, and acquainted with the ideas and community behind it.

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Apr 18, 2013

Motors Part 2: Steppers, Servos & Arduino Control

In session 2 we'll talk about more complicated motors (servomotors and stepper motors) that require electronic circuits or microcontrollers to make them work.

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Apr 11, 2013

Motors Part 1: AC/DC & Mechanical Mayhem

In the first of two motor workshops, we'll deal with simple motors that don't require complicated circuits to control them: DC motors and AC motors.

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