YOU.JS with Sam Lavigne

Description

This two-day workshop explores the programming library as an expressive medium. You will learn how to make frontend/backend JavaScript libraries and command line tools to build and distribute your own subjectivity. At the end of the workshop you will upload your library to Node Package Manager (NPM) for an online exhibition, so that anyone can access you and your functions from the command line. Participants should be familiar with basic Javascript syntax (variables, functions) and have Node installed on their computers. Schedule This workshop will meet two times. 3 hour workshop sessions on June 4 &11, 2017. 11am~3:30pm  Instructor Sam Lavigne is an artist, programmer, and teacher, specializing in work on data, surveillance, natural language processing, machine-learning, and automation. Lavigne has has exhibited and presented work at Rhizome, Flux Factory, Lincoln Center, SFMOMA, Pioneer Works, DIS, and the Smithsonian, among others. His work has been covered by general-interest outlets such as ABC News, the Ellen Degeneres Show, New York Magazine, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Motherboard, Wired, the Atlantic, Forbes, NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere. In 2014 he founded the “Stupid Hackathon”, an annual event that brings together artists, programmers and designers to produce critical projects over the course of a day, and that has since been held in over 30 cities across the world. He is an editor at The New Inquiry and founded the Useless Press, an artist collective that experiments with the internet as a medium. He teaches at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.