School
for
Poetic
Computation
City blocks, streets, sidewalks, neighborhoods, towns, bridges, telephone poles, bulletin boards, mailboxes, windows, crosswalks, porches… How do we practice collectively within the streets/public? TO THE STREETS! is an exploration of making work in the public eye, understanding how our work can affect or be affected by the spaces that surround us, drawing connections between our work and communities in the streets, and thinking intentionally, procedurally, or computationally, about utilizing our work in and for the public as political strategy. Each week we will cover five areas of thinking and making: maintenance, movement, intervention, publishing and collective. From investigating seen and unseen histories of our surrounding streets, to practicing ephemeral ways of making such as printmaking for public installation or performance, to studying direct actions such as guerrilla/pirate radio or disability networks that inform investigations in maintenance and mutual aid work to the influence of printed political graphics in the telling of community stories. Every week, we will do readings, exercises, crits and make work within the classroom of the streets—together and apart!
This class may be for you if:
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo is an artist, abolitionist, educator and person of multitudes. Through a practice based in the printed multiple, community-based work, performance and installation building, they invite the viewer to recall and share their own lived narratives, offering power and weight to the creation of a larger dialogue around the telling of Black, Indigenous, Queer, Trans, People of color’s stories. Their work has been included in exhibitions and performances at MOCA Cleveland, Konsthall C, EFA Project Space, San Francisco Arts Commission, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, and L’Internationale Online, amongst others. Their artist books and printed editions have been published by Endless Editions, Childish Books, Ghost Proposal, Press Press, Center for Liberatory Practice & Poetry, Printed Matter Inc and Wendy’s Subway. They are a practitioner of global liberation movements, protest tactics, tools & strategies, handmade paper and flight!
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Sarah Al Yahya is a researcher and interactive media artist based between New York and Amman. She’s currently pursuing an MA in Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. She experiments with multiple mediums including software art, AR, writing, UX/UI design and physical computing. Her research interests center on digital and internet cultures in Palestine and the SWANA region, open source intelligence, and the decolonial and other sociopolitical potential of new media technologies.
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Applications open until Applications closed on August 4, 2024.
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For 5 classes, it costs $750 + 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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