Cellular Automata: Learning Archive 2023

Description

Cellular Automata is a way of thinking about computing, natural structures, and the wider world as a group of many entities each following simple rules. In this class we used paper, board games, computers, and more to code and play with our own cellular automata systems. This class gave us an opportunity to challenge the traditional cultures and definitions of what programming is and who it is for, and offered some critical and playful ways to imagine what else it can be. This is a learning archive for the 5 week class Cellular Automata - Code Beyond Words, taught by Murilo Polese and Yadira Sanchez at School for Poetic Computation from March to April 2023.