School
for
Poetic
Computation
Wayward Sentences explores writing constraints as a method to generate more feral and intuitive writing. In this course, we will explore the erotics of constraint – or the pleasure of having something withheld – a letter, a syntax, a structure, a line of code. This course invites learners to use gentle coding, the affordances of hyperlinks, and OuLiPo(ish) and FLUXUS(ish) constraints to generate new writing. In addition to new writing, learners are also invited to design scores, prompts, and constraints for future writers and future selves. In this course, among many others, we will explore Saidiya Hartman and Emily Dickinson's language of "waywardness"; Fred Moten's question - "Is there an underground railroad in the sentence?" in conversation with Renee Gladman's work; Clarice Lispector's assertion that "writing is a method of using the word as bait..."; Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ concept of “ancestrally cowritten texts”; and what Harryette Mullen has stated as an interest in “word games, such as acrostics, anagrams, paragrams, lipograms, univocalics, tautograms, charades, homophones, spoonerisms, and palindromes.” No coding experience is needed for this course. We are doing gentle coding supported by templates and extensive modeling. What is most needed is a desire to play and be played with.
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A learner, Kameelah Janan Rasheed grapples with the poetics of Black knowledge production, information technologies, [un]learning, and belief formation. Most recently, she is a recipient of a 2022 Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research; a 2022 Creative Capital Award; a 2022 Betty Parsons Fellow – Artists2Artists Art Matters Award; a 2022 Artists + Machine Intelligence Grants - Experiments with Google; and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts. Rasheed is the author of five artist's books: in the coherence, we weep (KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2023); i am not done yet (Mousse Publishing, 2022); An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations (Endless Editions, 2019); No New Theories (Printed Matter, 2019); and the digital publication Scoring the Stacks (Brooklyn Public Library, 2021). Her writing has appeared in Triple Canopy, The New Inquiry, Shift Space, Active Cultures, and The Believer. She is an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Union, a Critic at Yale School of Art, Sculpture, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. Rasheed is represented by NOME Gallery in Berlin, Germany.
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Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab is a designer, educator and publisher who was born but not raised in Khartoum, Sudan. She is interested in language, form and specificity, alongside media, Black studies and popular culture.
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Applications open until Applications closed on February 4, 2024.
You can expect to hear back from us about the status of your application on February 19, 2024. Please email us at admissions@sfpc.study with any questions you have.
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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