School for Poetic Computation

Poster with a blue and iridescent theme showing a photo of a textured urban sidewalk with tactile paving and street markings. Title is in a gothic typeface. Taught by Devin Kaif Kenny and Maybe Tucker. The course explores “sampling as a creative and political act in music.”

Poster showing a distorted video game character customization screen focused on changing the character's teeth. The title uses a playful font. Taught by Herdimas Anggara with Weitong Sun and Rasim Bayramov. The description says: “Use default platforms as sites for play, parody & performance.”

Poster in luminous green featuring a tilted screenshot of a Google Doc being edited. The title is in gothic script. Course is taught by Yeli Arenyeka with Lee Nok'si Livingston and Sim Hafferty. The description reads: “Unpack the unspoken assumptions, histories, & ethics behind computational art.”

APPLICATIONS EXTENDED UNTIL THURSDAY at 11:59pm ET! You can still apply to three Fall classes:

🃏 Poetics & Politics of Sampling

♦️ OOPS! (Off-Purpose Software)

🃏 Interrogating Computational Approaches to Art

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Scholarships available!

Today is the LAST day to apply to our Fall classes! Apply by 11:59pm ET

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༻ Browse the full program at: sfpc.study/sessions/fal...

Poster with a deep purple background and chalk-style drawing of satellites, power lines, mountains, solar panels, and tech equipment forming an imaginative network. The course is titled “Solidarity Infrastructures” and taught by Meghna Mahadevan and Max Fowler with Io Hushpuppie. Description reads: “Build infrastructure outside a techno-capitalist worldview.”

Text on a dreamy purple and yellow background describes the class exploring topics like the slow web, organic internet, data sovereignty, minimal computing, and anti-computing. It highlights how community tech and cultural organizing intersect. The text emphasizes collective values and ecological grounding over traditional high/low-tech dichotomies. At the bottom, there's an oval photo of a person using a wood-burning tool on a craft board with trees in the background.

How do we cultivate infrastructures of solidarity with each other?

Join us in September to explore grassroots ways of building independent tools outside techno-capitalism in Solidarity Infrastructures, taught online by Meghna Mahadevan, @notplants.bsky.social & hushpuppie io

༻ Apply @ sfpc.study

Poster in luminous green featuring a tilted screenshot of a Google Doc being edited. The title is in gothic script. Course is taught by Yeli Arenyeka with Lee Nok'si Livingston and Sim Hafferty. The description reads: “Unpack the unspoken assumptions, histories, & ethics behind computational art.”

Poster with blurred green-yellow background. Text in a decorative font asks questions about critiquing poetic computation, ethics, and meaning-making. Mentions using literature, philosophy, ethics, and HCI to develop frameworks for analyzing computational art. At the bottom, a stylized, grainy oval illustration shows colorful shapes and connected elements representing digital interfaces.

What is a poetic computation work made of? What are its materials?

Join us this September to discuss what's behind computational art in Interrogating Computational Approaches to Art, a 5-week class taught online by Yelly Arenyeka with Lee Nok’si Livingston and Sim.

༻ Apply @ sfpc.study

Poster with a bright magenta color scheme featuring dozens of quirky, hand-drawn cartoon faces and characters in a grid. The title reads “100 Games Later” in a stylized gothic font. It’s taught by Blake Andrews & Cameron Granger. The text encourages students to “Make dozens of games. Make them fast. Make them weird.”

Class graphic with pink and purple tones. The class description is focused on making "tiny games" using tools like Construct 3, Ren’Py, and RPG Maker. The text emphasizes creating experimental, weird, or broken games and learning about hobbyist game scenes like Glorious Trainwrecks and NewGrounds. The bottom includes a cartoon character in a yellow shirt shouting “I Love Earth,” with exaggerated arms raised.

What happens when you make games faster than you can second-guess them?

Join us this September for 100 Games Later, an online class taught by Blake Andrews, where you'll make games with engines like Construct 3 and Ren’Py, while studying genre tropes and platform histories.

༻ Apply @ sfpc.study

Poster showing a distorted video game character customization screen focused on changing the character's teeth. The title uses a playful font. Taught by Herdimas Anggara with Weitong Sun and Rasim Bayramov. The description says: “Use default platforms as sites for play, parody & performance.”

Class flyer with a warm gradient background. The flyer describes a class that explores creatively misusing Google Workspace tools (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms) to intentionally break or subvert their functionality. Methods include literal obedience to rules, scripted sabotage, and ritualized clicking. Students will also use Google Apps Script to create humorous effects, rewrite version history, and misuse features like autofill. The text includes playful typography emphasizing phrases like "misuse features," "sabotage," and "Google Apps Script." At the bottom, there is an oval image of a computer desktop filled with icons for Google Docs and Adobe Illustrator files.

Are you disillusioned with your digital workspace? Interested in exploring silly ideas using serious tools?

Join us for an online 7-week class taught by Herdimas Anggara, where we'll use Google Workspace weekly and push it to the edge of breakdown through various tactics.

༻ Apply @ sfpc.study

Poster with a blue and iridescent theme showing a photo of a textured urban sidewalk with tactile paving and street markings. Title is in a gothic typeface. Taught by Devin Kaif Kenny and Maybe Tucker. The course explores “sampling as a creative and political act in music.”

A graphic flyer for a class on authorship and subversion in sound-based media. The text describes exploring sampling, copyright, and AI in music. A circular image at the bottom shows a person performing with digital visuals around them.

Are you curious about sampling, appropriation and remixing? Looking to experiment with sound in a group of creators?

Then join us this September for a 10-week class about authorship and subversion in sound-based media, taught online by Devin Kaif Kenny w/ Maybe Tucker

༻ Apply @ sfpc.study

Fall 2025 Announcement Graphic. Text reads: FALL 2025 / School for Poetic Computation. / Poetics & Protocols of Sampling / 100 Games Later / OOPS! Off-Purpose Software / Interrogating Computational Approaches to Art / Solidarity Infrastructures

Announcing FALL 2025 at SFPC! 🃏♦️🃏

This season we're channeling the trickster energy, with classes that approach computation as a site of poetic misbehavior and political possibilities. What can happen if we misuse tools & question authorship?

༻ Read the full program + apply at sfpc.study

Credits: 1) Working Knowledge Opening Party view. Concourse (2025) by Lynne Yun in collaboration with The Bronx Museum’s Teen Council, courtesy of the artist. Image courtesy of The Bronx Museum. Photo by Argenis Apolinario.

Lynne Yun stands in front of the typeface she created, smiling. The typeface is adhered to the wall, in black.

Head to the Bronx Museum this summer to check out 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞, a typeface designed by SFPC alum Lynne Yun!

Inspired by the museum’s Teen Council members, and the neighborhood, Lynne aimed the capture the spirit the Bronx’s Grand Concourse in letterforms.

→ On view until August 17!

A screenshot of Andrew Boylan’s console game the Spirit of Music, which shows an offering of an Ascii smoothie to the spirit.

How might we inhabit the internet now, when the commercialization of culture seems relentless & unnavigable? @teehehe.bsky.social‬ wrote a blog post about reclaiming the web browser as a space of playfulness + their Winter class w/ @everest.bsky.social‬

sfpc.study/blog/the-pla...

An attendee is showing work on a screen behind him. There are multiple images of Gaza, and a heat map projected over it.

An attendee holds a microphone, behind her there’s dithered stars projected.

We had so much fun at Open Projector Night at the Common Press in London! We really enjoyed the work you shared — from randomness and computer vision in the context of Palestine, encrypted love letters, spirals, & a performance on work in the enshittification era.

See you again in the future!

Paige Fulton reflected on how sketching data by hand takes the seriousness away from the subject and frees up new angles: “So begins the messy world of talking about data, trying to make sense of what is given”.

𓊆~ Read the full blog post: sfpc.study/blog/drawing... ~ 𓊇

Consensual Hacking Poster graphic

There’s a text file window with text that reads: feeling sleepy and maybe a bit emotionally-spent. thinking about love while in the process of grieving in the end of a relationship is quite an interesting thing. sometimes i wish i was in a better headspace for this class but i suppose that heartbreak in a way is still a form of love… so funny how writing my stream of consciousness just feels like i am journaling except i am just in somebody else’s computer using it as a diary almost…

Explore digital and sexual consent through hacking in this hands-on weekend intensive happening in Brooklyn! Taught by Melanie Hoff with Lee Beckwith

Learn secure networking protocols and connect with new folks ˎˊ˗🔌

🍃Read more: sfpc.study/sessions/sum...

7/12 - Becoming Hypertext: The performance of the browser, the browser as performance by School for Poetic Computation Get tickets and support School for Poetic Computation by becoming a member

To make Becoming Hypertext more accessible, a small number of reduced-cost tickets will be released tomorrow @ 1pm ET. Solidarity tickets ($250) are for people with limited disposable income, & Full Scholarship tickets are for people facing deeper financial hardship.

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Last chance! Sale ends tonight at midnight — save $100 when you buy your workshop tickets now.

🐣 Sign up for Becoming Hypertext: withfriends.co/event/226932...
🦜 Sign up for Consensual Hacking: withfriends.co/event/231705...

In late March, @spencer.place and I wrapped up our Gift Interfaces class at @sfpc-study.bsky.social. On our last day, we threw a gift wrapping party. Then we opened them together. The resulting website represents the archive of our work together:

gifting-interfaces.pages.dev

Screenshots of one of the two sections of class, showing grids of smiling faces in Zoom’s gallery view, including several peace signs.

Screenshots of one of the two sections of class, showing grids of smiling faces in Zoom’s gallery view, including several peace signs.

⋆˙◌ Reconnecting with ancestral and family histories:

Relational Reconstructions was a class taught by Jeffrey Yoo Warren + Dri Chiu Tattersfield, where students explored ways of reconnecting with ancestral histories.

Read more about their work: sfpc.study/blog/gluemak...

Becoming Hypertext promotional graphic. The central image has many windows open with pink and green half-toned images of a person and of hands in different angles.

Consensual Hacking promotional graphic. The central image has one folder open with the file’s name being a-computer-is, and inside two folders named ‘a-gun’ and ‘a-way-to-love’

2-day workshops in Brooklyn for poets, programmers, + people in between.

Make net art pieces & learn how to perform them in Becoming Hypertext (July 12-13) or connect over secure networks through the terminal while exploring >consent in Consensual Hacking (July 26-27). Sign-ups open!

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6/28 - Seeking Mavis Beacon: Outdoor Screening by School for Poetic Computation Get tickets and support School for Poetic Computation by becoming a member

You’re invited to a free outdoor screening of Seeking Mavis Beacon, co-directed by SFPC alumni Jazmin Jones and Olivia Mckayla Ross! ♡ Join us on Saturday, June 28, from 7-10pm @ Herbert Von King Park in Bed-Stuy.

🔗 RSVP: withfriends.co/event/23484503

Portrait of Nneka Sobers standing in front of a projected screen. The copy says "Nneka Sobers imagines civic technologies rooted in intimacy and resistance

Photo of a microcontroller connected to an LED screen and an acrylic sheet with people's hands on top of it

Nneka Sobers is an urban designer and civic technologist, currently working as Deputy Director of NYC’s Innovation Team, where she builds tools and experiences to help everyday people shape city systems.

‧₊˚ 🔗┊Read more: sfpc.study/blog/nneka-s...

Photo of attendees playing a game in a computer screen

Photo of the back of an attendee playing a game in a laptop. The game appears to be in a corporate setting, within a 3d environment.

Screenshot of the High on Websites spreadsheet party

Screenshot of the High on Websites spreadsheet party

Thank you for coming to hang out with us at LARPA last month! 🧑🏽‍💻👩🏿‍💻👨🏾‍💻👩🏻‍💻🧑🏼‍💻 Guests were explored all kinds of weird and wonderful browser games made by students of The Browser is Already a Game Engine, taught by Everest Pipkin with Tee Topor.

Let’s go online together at DEMO2025! SFPC will be presenting a new version of Electronic Cafe for Poetic Computation featuring work from “Gifting Interfaces,” “Digital Love Languages,” and “Solidarity Infrastructures,” and more!

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June 4-22 @ 180 Maiden Lane, NYC. Free & open to all!

WORKING KNOWLEDGE: Shared Imaginings, New Futures - The Bronx Museum

Take a summer field trip to Bronx Museum to visit Working Knowledge, a group exhibition of knowledge as a process, featuring work by SFPC teachers and alumni!

bronxmuseum.org/exhibition/w...

Descriptions of landmarks 1-4 on the pigeon tour of Amsterdam. Two of the landmarks, a house and a national monument, have photographs rendered in various shades of pink.

Excerpts from a pigeon’s travel guide to Amsterdam, created by student Krish Raghav. This image features a map of different landmarks in Amsterdam. The landmarks are aligned in a straight line that evokes a subway map, and small drawn illustrations “pop out” of each pinpoint on the map. As navigational aids, various constellations and tiny suns are floating in the background. There is a small arrow pointing left to denote North in the top right corner.

POV: You're a pigeon and you're in Amsterdam. What do you do?

Use this travel guide created by Krish Raghav! An experiment on the shapes a story for Narrative Constellations.

Photo of a small-scale scene inside of a model train. Two empty seats, a table, and a small lamp.

If you're in Riga, visit SFPC teacher Viktor Timofeev’s exhibition at the Latvian National Museum of Art. Deeply tied to Viktor’s explorations, which include video games and worldmaking, the exhibited works address otherness, and incomprehensibility. “Other Passengers” is open through June 14.

A Kickstarter campaign, a recipe, a cease & desist letter, a review, an Airbnb listing, a changelog, a series of calendar invites... what other shapes can a story take?

Lee Beckwith shares about the 2nd iteration of Narrative Constellations, taught by April Soetarman: sfpc.study/blog/stories...

We’re hiring a Program Coordinator at SFPC!

If you’re organized, collaborative, and enthusiastic about art, technology, and alternative education, we’d love to hear from you. This is a full-time (4 days/week) role based in New York.

🔗 Read the full job description here: sfpc.study/blog/program...

Admission emails for the Summer 2025 classes have been sent! Please check your spam folder if you haven’t received one yet.

Open Projector Flyer

SFPC is visiting London and YOU’RE invited to join us for an Open Projector! ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆
Come in, plug in and share a poem, essay, talk, or idea in progress for 5 mins!

✏︎ Hosted by @toddwords.bsky.social in the @thecommonpress.bsky.social at Shoreditch

✐ RSVP: withfriends.co/event/23367219