School
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Poetic
Computation
Form/Flow/Feel explores diagrams and patterns as tools for mapping memory, emotion, land, and time through generative visuals. Designed for students with some prior coding or generative art experience, this class uses p5.js, journaling, and personal or environmental data to create poetic systems that blend storytelling and design.
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Form/Flow/Feel explores diagrams and patterns as expressive structures for understanding interdependence and transformation. Drawing inspiration from ecological cycles, ancestral knowledge, and interface design, students will develop personal visual languages through generative coding and reflection.
Coding frameworks and journaling prompts will support students in creating their own visual languages. Data will serve as material, whether personal (like mood logs, routines) or scientific (weather, lunar phases, tide patterns), not for accuracy—but as the basis for reflection, structure, and experimentation.
Basic knowledge of variables, loops, arrays, functions, or building webpages with HTML/CSS/JS is strongly recommended, but not required. Students with no prior experience should plan to spend additional time in office hours to get up to speed.
This class may be for you if you:
This class may NOT be for you if you:
Mattaniah Aytenfsu is a new media artist, designer, and engineer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the interplay of computation, consciousness, and expression.Using code as her primary medium, Mattaniah creates generative artifacts and experiences that demystify technology and reveal its humanistic potential. Her work seeks to externalize the internal, empowering individuals to reflect on their inner worlds, their communities, and the ecosystems they inhabit.
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Lara McConnaughey is an Engineer at Google DeepMind, where she focuses on the development of Gemini. She holds a B.A. in Linguistics and a B.A. in Computer Science, as well as an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Applications open until Applications closed on February 9, 2026.
You can expect to hear back from us about the status of your application on February 25, 2026. Please email us at admissions@sfpc.study with any questions you have.
For 5 classes, it costs $750 + 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.
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