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Let’s Play: Wayward Sentences

Teachers

Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab

Date

Section 1: March 27, 2024 to May 29, 2024
Section 2: March 30, 2024 to June 1, 2024
(10 classes)

Time

Section 1: Wednesdays, 6pm-9pm ET, Section 2: Saturdays 1pm-4pm ET

Location

Online (Zoom)

Cost

$1200 Or pay $600, $300, or $0 with scholarship

Deadline

Applications closed on February 4, 2024

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Description

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Course of Study

Week 1: Writing as a Collaborative Erotic Practice - Constraints, Scores, and Ergodic Texts

Week 2: Writing ACROSS ______________ - Substrates/Interfaces/Stages: Browsers, Page, Walls, Sky; Species: Lichen, Snail Mucus, and Spider Webs; Realms: Divination, Ancestor Veneration, Lucid Dreaming

Week 3: THE BROWSER IS NOT THE BOOK PAGE - Writing with CSS and HTML; History of these languages and evolution of CMSs/website editors

Week 4-5: ELSEWHERE, OVER THERE - Writing with hyperlinks, URL redirection, pop-ups, rollovers, alternate scrolling, and interstitial webpages; History of Hypertext and Hypermedia

Week 6-7: RANDOM, RANDOM, RANDOM - Writing with JavaScript, Text Generators, and Google Sheets Formulas

Week 8: INPUT FIELD - Writing with user inputs, twine, and itch.io

Week 9-10: PERFORMANCE, DOCUMENTATION, PRESERVATION? - [anti]-performance, [anti]-documentation and [anti]-preservation of browser-based writing

Expectations

Time & Workload

Participants will be expected to spend time outside class creating browser-based writing weekly. The amount of work you take on each week is self-determined. You set the scope and depth of each task.

Materials

Laptop with Wi-Fi and Browser

Glitch Account

Is this class for me?

This class may be for you if:

You want to write but feel stuck writing on a single sheet of paper or in a wordprocessor

You have an interest in reading and writing as a collaborative, interactive, and playful process

You have an interest in browser experiences other than shopping or reading highly curated content

This class may NOT be for you if:

You want to learn professional web development

You don’t like to play

Meet the Teachers

teacher Kameelah Janan Rasheed: 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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teacher Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab: 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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How do I apply?

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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.

How much does it cost to attend?

For 10 classes, it costs $1200 + processing fees, for a one-time payment. We also offer payment plans. Participants can schedule 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.

SFPC processes all payments via Withfriends and Stripe. Please email admissions@sfpc.study if these payment options don't work for you.

Applicant FAQ

For more information about what we look for in applicants, scholarships, and other frequently asked questions, please visit our applicant FAQ.

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