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 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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Apr 4, 2013
Parametric 3D models with Grasshopper
This week, we'll plug in a powerful Rhinoceros add-on called Grasshopoper to create elaborate parametric forms.