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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Past workshop

Jul 5, 2012

Workshop: Arduino & DMX control with David McCallum

Learn how to control DMX devices straight through Arduino, with a little hardware hacking and some custom software libraries.

Past workshop

Jun 28, 2012

Workshop: Intro to Analog Robotics with Michael Awad

This hands-on workshop will teach the basics of robotic components, in theory, and in practice.

Past workshop

Jun 19 - 21, 2012

Workshop: Sensors! with Jessica Field

The workshop will introduce you to a variety of different sensors. Explain how they work, show the three different types of interfaces to work your sensor and prepare you for using any sensor you would like in the future.