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Digital Love Languages is an introductory computing class for reimagining the purpose of technology. This class is based on the premise that there is a world where all our software is made by people who love us and that we can contribute to building it. Together we will build small, personal software with Python, Bash, HTML and Javascript for affirming one another across physical distance, while making and sharing digital space with each other. We will engage with code as a craft capable of expressing a full range of feeling and desire. We will look at the love letter as a form, from the quill to the sext. We will explore social and digital consent and ask: How are they interwoven? In this class, we will learn about things as a proxy to learn about other things. Learn about digital coding to learn how we’re socially coded;. Learn about digital consent to learn about sexual consent. Learn about network protocols to learn about sharing. Learn about naming to learn about knowing. Learn about learning to learn about living. Through a series of educational encounters, we will code poetic structures for digital touching and practice a re-examination of personal and networked computing. This is a call to action for expanding computation’s capacity for fostering interdependence and feeling for ourselves and those we love.
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Melanie Hoff is an artist, organizer, and educator. At School for Poetic Computation and Hex House, they strive to cultivate spaces of learning and feeling that encourage honesty, poetry, and reconciliation for the ways we are shaped by intersecting systems of classification and power. Melanie engages hacking and performance to express the absurdities of these systems while revealing the encoded ways in which they influence how we choose to live and what choices have been made for us. They teach about sex, technology, and social cybernetics at the School for Poetic Computation, Yale University, New York University, and have shown work at the New Museum, the Queens Museum, and elsewhere.
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Lee 소라 Beckwith is sometimes an educator but always a learner. They currently teach high schoolers computer science, math, and creative writing on Lenape land (Bronx, NY). Their recent research centers on rethinking classroom power dynamics through curriculum negotiation. These days, they are thinking a lot about fractals and film scores.
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Alexa Ann Bonomo is a tech artist and scholar with a deep interest in methods in preservation and archiving who holds an extensive skillset in creative technology. Her creative work primarily lives on the internet and other ephemeral settings in the form of net art, creative writing and other worldbuilding projects. She is currently crafting lore and researching real time motion capture, simulated memory, and narrative dialog for performance based art in the World Engines Lab. Alexa curates programming and teaches with Index, works on archiving and conserving new media works with Leonardo, and is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco.
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Mindy Seu is a designer and technologist based in New York City and Los Angeles, currently teaching as an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Department of Design Media Arts. Her expanded practice involves archival projects, techno-critical writing, performative lectures, and design commissions.
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Sidney San Martín is a computer programmer, artist, and technologist based in Brooklyn, NY who works on tools for live performance, music visuals, immersive art, systems programming, and electronics. He enjoys doing deeply technical work to create small moments. He collaborates with artists, performers, and museums in NYC and beyond, and in the past, has been a full time software engineer for OkCupid, Keybase, and Chrome for Mac at Google.
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Applications open until Applications closed on August 4, 2024.
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For 10 classes, it costs $1200 + processing fees, for a one-time payment. We also offer payment plans. Participants can schedule weekly or monthly payments of the same amount. First and last payments must be made before the start and end of class. *Processing fees apply for each payment.
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