𝄪 Students of Decoding Tendencies in Live Coding experimented with making their own notational systems inspired by a variety of things including the Andean quipu, braid diagrams, hex codes, and more!
𝄢 Read more about what they made & thought → sfpc.study/blog/decodin...
Flyer for the School for Poetic Computation Spring 2026 session. Bold white text reading "Applications extended!" is centered on a gray metallic ticket-shaped frame against a black background with intersecting gray lines. Colorful 3D decorative elements — a pink and yellow starburst, a purple four-pointed star, a blue sphere, a cyan swirl, a green spiky shape, and a yellow X — are scattered around the composition. The top left reads "Spring 2026" and the top right shows the SFPC logo. The bottom displays "Apply @ SFPC.study" and "Online (Zoom)."
[APPLICATIONS EXTENDED] You can still apply for these four spring classes at the School for Poetic Computation:
🪀 Time & Its Manifestations
💚 Rhythmanalytics
☘️ The Wh✻re Singularity
❇️ Disturbing Code
Apply by Friday at 11:59pm ET: sfpc.study/sessions/spr...
Today is the LAST DAY to apply for Spring classes at the School for Poetic Computation!
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Want to explore creative coding without needing to “get it right”? Are you drawn to systems thinking, speculative tools, or visual storytelling?
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A purple background with gray diagonal lines radiating outward like a web or grid. In the center, a dark gray metallic panel with beveled edges displays the question "How does technology shape rhythm?" in large white bold text.
Become a music writer and a producer in this class that operates as a simulated artist-critic ecosystem.
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Pink slide with geometric line pattern background and SFPC logo in top left corner. A gray metallic-framed box in the center contains the question "Do games take or make time?" in bold white text. Footer reads "Time and Its Manifestations" in a retro pixel font style.
▀▄▀▄ Play video games, discuss them with other people and make your own! ▀▄▀▄
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Promotional poster for The Whore Singularity: School for Poetic Computation class. Title in pixelated blue text; subtitle “Online sex worker rights movement histories, pornographic presents, and whoretopias.” Taught by Tina Horn with Jaye Elizabeth Elijah. Duration options 10 weeks / 5 weeks. Buttons: Apply @ sfpc.study, Spring 2026, Online (Zoom). Central image: grainy black-and-white scene of two figures in a clinical/office setting with an eye chart on the wall, framed like a retro TV screen. Light blue-gray background with scanlines and floating course-outline fragments.
Come learn about this history and explore ways to contribute to a cybersex utopia 💙
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Retro-futuristic poster for the class "FORM / FLOW / FEEL" from the School for Poetic Computation. Gray metallic background with neon green title and a central monitor graphic showing concentric circles and a crosshair. Course details include: 5 weeks, description "Visualizing inner and outer systems, from emotion to environment," instructors Mattaniah Aytenfsu and Lara McConnaughy, apply at SFPC.STUDY, Spring 2026, online (Zoom).
Explore diagrams, patterns, and other ways of displaying and making sense of data as expressive tools in Form/Flow/Feel, a 5-week class where students will create their own generative visual systems using p5.js and personal or scientific data.
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Flyer for "Disturbing Code", a class from School for Poetic Computation. Features a retro-futuristic design with dark gray background and yellow glitchy text. Central image shows a monochrome photograph of a small agricultural vehicle spraying dust/particles, displayed within a stylized retro TV monitor frame. Course details include: 10-week duration, taught by Theo Ellin Ballew with Neeti Sivakumar and Dré Jacome, theme of "COMPUTATIONAL POLITICAL ACTION". Application button links to SFPC.STUDY, Spring 2026, online via Zoom. Background includes faint repeating text of course curriculum outline.
DDoS attacks, data poisoning, DIY servers, radical archiving, & more: code in this class disturbs and is disturbed.
🟢 Taught by @theo-on-silver.bsky.social, Neeti Sivakumar & @drejacome.bsky.social
🟢 Apply by Feb 9 @ 11:59pm ET
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A promotional graphic for the Rhythmanalytics course by School for Poetic Computation. Features the course title "RHYTHMANALYTICS" in large purple gradient text with glowing wave effects.
Get into the mindset of a producer and music critic this Spring in Rhythmanalytics, an experimental theory class on platform capitalism.
🟢 Taught by DeForrest Brown, Jr. & Jaylyn Quinn Glasper
🟢 Apply by Feb 9 @ 11:59pm ET
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School for Poetic Computation presents Time and its Manifestations course poster. Retro-futuristic design with a simulated CRT monitor screen showing abstract pixelated graphics and distorted human figure. Course details include 5-week duration selected, taught by Lawra Suits Clark with Karina Popp, Spring 2026, online via Zoom.
Join us for this class about time mechanics in games!
🟢 Taught by Lawra Clark & Karina Popp
🟢 Apply by Feb 9 @ 11:59pm ET
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School for Poetic Computation Spring 2026 program announcement. Retro-futuristic digital interface with metallic grey panels displaying six course titles: The Whore Singularity, Disturbing Code, Form / Flow / Feel, Rhythm analytics, Time & Its Manifestations, and Digital Decay & Afterlives. Features glossy 3D decorative shapes in red, yellow, blue, purple, and turquoise. Includes apply button and online format indicator.
🟢☘️💚 Announcing SPRING 2026 at SFPC! 🟢☘️💚
Our Spring 2026 classes to the past to bring into the present what we want for the internet: a place that holds room for taste, play, and self-expression beyond commodification.
Read more + apply by Feb 9 @ sfpc.study
‧₊˚ 모┊SFPC Alumni Profiles is an interview series featuring alumni practicing poetic computation into their communities and work┊모 ˚₊ ‧
Victoria Muthiani is an interdisciplinary artist and musician using rap as an act of sovereignty and a tool for healing.
→ sfpc.study/blog/victoria-muthiani
Image from Hiba Ali's lecture-performance
By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Participants and projects
Hiba Ali
'Sounding the Ocean: Spiral Networks of Remembrance and Elation' is a lecture-performance that introduces an exploratory, research-based video game environment.
► transmediale.de/en/event/sou...
How do we read works of poetic computation? What do we anchor our interpretations of the work to? What parameters should we use to critique this type of work?
༻ Yeli Arenyeka, Sim & Lee Beckwith explore these questions here: sfpc.study/blog/somewha...
One week in the life of an office worker… will the worker dominate the spreadsheets, or will they dominate him?
Go to sfpc.study/blog/oops to find out
A person is using a desktop computer with a mouse. Their expression is of surprise and interest. There’s people behind this person also looking at the computer with slight amusement. They are in a crowded room.
Hundreds of games were played at the 100 Games Later Showcase last Monday, Nov 17 @ Boshi's Place, as part of Game Design Days organized by the NYU Game Center.
Thank you all for coming, see you soon!
Photos by Nicholas Green
Come visit us at Press Play and get some poetic computation goodies ‧₊˚ 모 Mousepads, zines and our NEW editions: a Sex Ed reader & the AncestryandMe dna processing kit!
Saturday & Sunday, December 13–14, 12-7pm at Pioneer Works
‣ RSVP: pioneerworks.org/programs/pre...
A cork bulletin board filled with overlapping flyers and stickers. Near the center is a bright green flyer from the School for Poetic Computation, pinned with a metal thumbtack. The flyer includes small illustrations of people and the word “Power.” To the left is a small sticker of a cartoon cat giving a thumbs-up. Other black-and-white flyers partially frame the scene, one with hand-drawn text and another featuring a QR code. The overall impression is a busy, eclectic community board.
A street mailbox with flyers taped on it. There is a bright green flyer from the School for Poetic Computation. Other black-and-white flyers partially frame the scene.
Books are tightly packed on a wooden shelf, their spines creating a dense row of bold titles. Visible among them are Genesis with a bright blue spine, Henry Kissinger’s Artificial Intelligence, Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger in black, User Friendly in white, and Trafficking Data with a dark, circuit-patterned cover. A few small green paper slips peek out from between the books.
Have you spotted SFPC around NYC? ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆
Thanks to our volunteer squad, SFPC flyers were distributed around NYC around libraries, cafés, and street corners!
Photos by Eileen Ramos, Lu Gillespie, Yifei Liu, and Neta Bomani. Thank you for helping us spread the word <3
Text reads: Taught by Todd Anderson, a digital poet, software artist and educator. He has been making experimental software art for over 10 years including the live interactive poetry project Hotwriting, the Chrome Extension ARG 'An Experience', the performance-inside-the-browser extension HitchHiker, and multiple plays and performances.
Text reads: With Kayla Drzewicki, an artist and educator based in Queens. She makes websites, screensavers, and stages performances within the desktop environment. Previously, she was a programmer and designer for QuaranTV, a 24/7 public access livestream. Currently, she is program assistant at Rhizome.
Text reads: And Tyler Yin, an artist, designer, and technologist based in Brooklyn. His practice weaves text, image, and code together into browser poems and publications. He writes instructions for both human and computer interpretation, as the blurry distinctions between user and software continue to unravel.
Do you feel like the internet isn’t fun anymore? Want to spend more time on websites not affiliated with massive corporations?
Then this is the class for you! Join us for HTTPoetics, taught by @toddwords.bsky.social >>> sfpc.study/sessions/win...
Text reads: Taught by April Soetarman, an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and writer who creates public art, immersive installations, games, and weird side projects. Her site-responsive works play with the language of everyday objects and speculative institutions to explore complex human emotions.
Text reads: With Lee 소라 Beckwith, sometimes an educator but always a learner. They currently teach high schoolers computer science, math, and creative writing on Lenape land (Bronx, NY). Their recent research centers on rethinking classroom power dynamics through curriculum negotiation.
Text reads: And Cameron A. Granger, an artist from Cleveland, Ohio, and Sandra’s son. A Ohio enthusiast, he makes work about the power structures that shape our cities, and how we make our lives therein. He’s an alumni of Euclid Public Schools.
Are you someone who enjoys stories and games, and wants to explore different ways they can be crafted?
Then join us for Narrative Constellations! A class taught by April Soetarman >>> sfpc.study/sessions/win...
Text reads: Taught by Roxanne Harris “alsoknownasrox”, a new media artist-researcher and musician-programmer based in Los Angeles. Her work invites audiences to engage the creative process as it unfolds, embracing vulnerability and exploring speculative futures through algorithmic transparency.
Text reads: With Eric Lee, (a.k.a. “easterner”) a multidisciplinary artist from London/Hong Kong, now based in New York. He is an active performer and organizer in the livecode.nyc collective, and a co-organizer of the Creative Code Art global online community. He has performed/shown his work at Public Records, Harvestworks, and Zerospace in NYC, Gray Area in SF, Iklectik in London, and NEO Shibuya in Tokyo.
Want to experiment with radical poetic concepts? Are you having a hard time keeping articulating how you are feeling from day to day, leading to major dissociation?
Join us and cultivate an analog journaling practice with Gabrielle Octavia Rucker and Margot Armbruster >>> sfpc.study/sessions/win...
Taught by Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, a poetic practitioner, writer, editor and teaching artist from the Great Lakes. Their work reflects on the complexities of inheriting not only only the unfinished business of past generations but also the silent, often overlooked burdens, such as languages and histories lost to colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade.
With Margot Armbruster, a writer, editor, educator, and SFPC alum. Margot has worked as a researcher, writer, community organizer, and musician at The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, the National Humanities Center, Yale University Press, SFPC, and elsewhere.
Want to experiment with radical poetic concepts? Are you having a hard time articulating how you are feeling from day to day, leading to major dissociation?
Join us and cultivate an analog journaling practice with Gabrielle Octavia Rucker and Margot Armbruster >>> sfpc.study/sessions/win...
Taught by Sherri Wasserman, a multidisciplinary collaborator who makes things for print, digital, and architectural/environmental spaces, creating content-rich exhibitions, installations, publications, websites, knowledge management and communications systems, and mobile apps for wide-ranging audiences.
Text reads: With Omayeli Arenyeka, a Nigerian artist, writer, and technologist. She primarily makes things that live on the internet. She is interested in the creative and critical possibilities of the web and data: its potentials for personal expression, solidarity and fostering disillusionment.
And Jaylyn Quinn Glasper, an interdisciplinary artist who follows their creative impulses wherever they lead. Her explorations span filmmaking, food, 3D modeling, writing, and design. Jaylyn was a contributing artist to the Open Source Afro Hair Library, a project dedicated to improving representation of Afro-textured hair in video gaming.
Do you want to imagine alternatives to our current technology landscapes? Do you want to apply a critical lens to our relationships to technology?
Get a closer look at computation, assembly, & hardware with Sherri Wasserman >>> sfpc.study/sessions/win...
a schreenshot of 100 games later class game jam page on itch
look at these cool games my classmates have made at @sfpc.study! I might need to edit a trailer for the showcase
itch.io/jam/100-game...
Come play a lot of experimental games at Boshi's Place next monday!
RSVP here: withfriends.events/event/aQFzVs...
Flyer for the class HTTPoetics with video games, decorated with pixellated motifs
Join us for HTTPoetics, a class where you’ll learn how to build playful websites from scratch using HTML, CSS, and Javascript, while you uncover hidden histories of internet art. No coding experience required!
Apply by Nov 17: sfpc.study/sessions/win...
Flyer for the class Decoding Tendencies in Live Coding with video games, decorated with pixellated motifs
Join us for Decoding Tendencies in Live Coding, a class where algorithms become a tool for improvisation and performance. Through exploration with coding and notation systems, you’ll find a new expressive medium.
Apply by Nov 17: sfpc.study/sessions/win...
Flyer for the class Machine Language with video games, decorated with pixellated motifs
Join us for an all-levels, tech-agnostic class that explores how we communicate to and through machines, combining readings, guest lectures, discussions, reflections, and experiments.
Apply by Nov 17 sfpc.study/sessions/win...
Flyer for the class Narrative Constellations with video games, decorated with pixellated motifs
Join us for Narrative Constellations, a class for artists and writers interested in exploring storytelling and choice across different mediums through creative writing, interactive narratives, and game design.
Apply by Nov 17: sfpc.study/sessions/win...
