School for Poetic Computation

✎⋆⑅˚₊ APPLICATIONS OPEN! ⋆⑅˚₊ New classes this Fall at the School for Poetic Computation! This season's classes invite us to connect with the transformative power of experimentation. Apply by Fri, Aug 7 at 11:59pm ET 🔗 sfpc.study/sessions/fal...

What if datasets were small enough to care for? Inspired by J.R. Carpenter’s The Handmade Web, students of Aarati Akkapeddi were invited to situate their approaches to the dataset through personally assembled materials. ➧ Read the blog post: sfpc.study/blog/within-...

What does it mean to understand land not as a backdrop to memory, but as an active participant in it? Jade Rhodes wrote about teaching Indigenous Cartography & GIS with Yvonne Mpwo last summer. ☞ Read the full blog post: sfpc.study/blog/kinship...

Carry your books, your zines, your tinkering tools, your rock collection, anything that inspires you to keep learning. Every purchase helps someone take an SFPC class! 💝 $40 | Pre-orders close Monday, Nov 9 at 11:59pm ET. US shipping only. → sfpc.study/store/lifelo...

GIS grew out of land surveying, resource extraction, and state surveillance, and Yvonne Mpwo asks: is it ideologically incompatible with Indigenous cartography, or can it be turned to different ends? ☞ Read the full blog post: sfpc.study/blog/what-th...

Shop the Lifelong Learning Stationery Pack and help someone take a class! Kit includes: Always Already Graduating Rosette Button, Liquid Crystal Pen, Lifelong Learning A6 Notebook & Sticker Pack + What is Poetic Computation? Zine. 💝 $20 | Pre-orders close Mon, Nov 9 sfpc.study/store

So much of technology now is pushing towards things being faster, more productive, and more scalable. In Building Benches for the Web, students made smaller and more intentional spaces online. 🔗 - Read Spencer Chang & Munus Shih's conversation about it: sfpc.study/blog/a-place...

I am taking this to fall back in love with the computer and it's working

What happens when you can see the rules that define the systems you’re inside of? Mattaniah Aytenfsu wrote about Form/Flow/Feel, the class she taught last spring about visualizing systems to create visual languages. → sfpc.study/blog/form-fl...

How does our relationship with music change when nearly all of it in recorded history is at our fingertips? Jaylyn Quinn wrote about the questions students explored around music in the era of gen. AI in Rhythmanalytics, a class taught by DeForrest Brown Jr. sfpc.study/blog/rhythma...

Get some SFPC goods and help someone participate in a class! Our Summer 2026 merch pre-order is now open, with proceeds going towards our Community Scholarship Fund. Pre-orders close Mon, Nov 9 at 11:59pm ET. US shipping only. → sfpc.study/store

How can we document work that is ephemeral in nature, using materials that are constantly in flux, transmute, or transform? Alexa Ann Bonomo and Ivan Zhao reflect on the class and share student work in this blog post: sfpc.study/blog/the-sma...

We’ve wrapped up our residency at the National Academy of Design as part of the Future Schools exhibition! Deep gratitude to the teachers who shared their practices and shaped these programs; to every student, artist, organizer, and guest who studied and experimented alongside us. More coming soon!

SPOILER ALERT: When playing OnlyBans, no matter what paths you take to get there, you finish in a group chat full of sex workers of the content creator variety... 🔵 Read the full blog post written by Jaye Elizabeth Elijah: sfpc.study/blog/the-who...

In Expressive Design with Video Games, students learned how to use game mechanics as poetic devices to tell stories. Read more about the games they made in this blog post written by Blake Andrews. 🟢 Taught by Lawra Suits Clark sfpc.study/blog/express...

What's the difference between what we observe in the world and what machines observe and perceive? Sherri Wasserman, Omayeli Arenyeka, and Jaylyn Quinn explored these questions during Machine Language last Spring. 🔗 - 🟢 Read the full blog post: sfpc.study/blog/machine...

Last spring, Gabrielle Octavia Rucker taught Spectacle, Presence, and Poetry, a class where students explored poetry that resists spectacle. Margot Armbruster walks through the class and shares about the collective consciousness that emerged: sfpc.study/blog/spectac...

In today’s era of gen A.I. omnipotence, making a website by hand is an act of love that goes against the grain, much like keeping a memory alive in a world that quickly moves on. Read the blog post by Tyler Yin & Kayla Drzewicki about HTTPoetics: sfpc.study/blog/sites-f...

The students and teachers of Summer 2026 are bringing their work out of the classroom and into the gallery. Come wander as we activate our electronic cafe with new art and goodies. ▭ Fri, Aug 21 | 6-8PM 📍 National Academy of Design, 519 W 26th St, Fl 2 RSVP: pools.events/event/OSzUno...

‧₊˚ 모┊SFPC Alumni Profiles is an interview series featuring alumni practicing poetic computation into their communities and work┊모 ˚₊ ‧ Tiger Dingsun is thinking about the power and reach of language, through and outside design. Read more: sfpc.study/blog/tiger-d...

✎⋆⑅ Applications extended ˚₊ We’ve extended applications for Tools for Creativity, Shaders for the Rest of Us, Surveillance Culture and Sound Maps, The Digital Will, Power & Ground, and The Erotics of Debt. ✎ Apply by Fri, Aug 14 at 11:59pm ET: sfpc.study/share/applyfall2026

✎⋆⑅˚₊ LAST CHANCE TO APPLY ⋆⑅˚₊ Today is the last day to apply for Fall classes at SFPC! Apply by 11:59pm ET. Scholarships available! ☞ sfpc.study/share/applyfall2026

I'm teaching an online class on how to make 100 video games in a short amount of time w/ Cameron Granger for @sfpc.study

Learn how to create web-based zines using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript alongside accessible digital publishing tools in Zine Making for the Web, with Neta Bomani. ˚₊ 10 classes - online ˚₊ Scholarships available! Apply: sfpc.study/sessions/fal...

Embrace constraints and build a sustainableapproach to filmmaking outside traditional industry models in Hacking Indie Filmmaking with Chester Toye. ˚₊ 5 classes - online ˚₊ Scholarships available! Apply: sfpc.study/sessions/fal...

Tell stories through movement and gesture, one frame at a time with charcoal, ink, sand, and paper cutouts in Experimental Animated Documentary, with Case Jernigan. ˚₊ 10 classes - online ˚₊ Scholarships available! Apply: sfpc.study/sessions/fal...

Really excited to teach a shaders class at @sfpc.study this fall! For visual oriented folks without a maths background that want to explore making art with code **Signups til Aug 10th ** scolarships available. Join me and @jonbrodsky.bsky.social at sfpc.study/sessions/fal... Poster: @identikitten

Create your own digital estate, reclaim your data, and contemplate the posthumous digital self throughthrough contemporary death customs and critical methodologies in The Digital Will with Eileen Ahn & Ada Zhou. ˚₊ 10 classes - online ˚₊ Scholarships available! Apply: sfpc.study/sessions/fal...

Create your own digital estate, reclaim your data, and contemplate the posthumous digital self throughthrough contemporary death customs and critical methodologies in The Digital Will with Eileen Ahn & Ada Zhou. ˚₊ 10 classes - online ˚₊ Scholarships available! Apply: sfpc.study/sessions/fal...

Disrupt colonial power structures in Power and Ground, a class that asks how we can create technology toward community autonomy, taught by Meghna Mahadevan. ˚₊ 10 classes - online ˚₊ Scholarships available! Apply: sfpc.study/sessions/fal...

Can websites be poems? This 2-day workshop led by Chia Amisola turns the web into a stage, exploring the performative aspects of browsing. 📅 Aug 7–8 (Fri 1–6pm, Sat 1–4pm) 📍 National Academy of Design, 519 W 26th St, Floor 2 Sign up: sfpc.study/sessions/fut...

Get your hands dirty using new digital tools while discussing how and why they work. Then put your understanding into practice and make your own creative tools in Tools for Creativity taught by v buckenham. ˚₊ 5 classes - online ˚₊ Scholarships available! Apply: sfpc.study/sessions/fal...

Break down seemingly complex code into malleable bits using a live shader editor in Shaders for the Rest of Us, taught by Fernando Ramallo. ˚₊ 10 classes - online ˚₊ Scholarships available! Apply: sfpc.study/sessions/fal...

Roleplay as an investigative observer by making site specific field recordings & photographs in personal attempts at surveilling the spaces around you in Surveillance Culture and Sound Maps taught by Nichole Shinn. ˚₊ 5 classes - online ˚₊ Scholarships available! Apply: sfpc.study/sessions/fal...

Explore the poetic pleasure of monetary systems in The Erotics of Debt, an experimental theory and creative writing class taught by L.A. Warman w/ Maybe Tucker. ˚₊ 5 classes - online ˚₊ Scholarships available! Apply: sfpc.study/sessions/fal...

Join us for a free, public talk by @melanieh0ff.bsky.social exploring language, connection, and intimacy across systems, focusing on consent and relational technologies. Sat, July 18, 1-4pm | National Academy of Design (519 West 26th Street, Floor 2) RSVP: pools.events/event/ahNbaM8n

✾ OPEN PROJECTOR NIGHT ✾ Tue, July 21 ▫︎ plug into the projector & share something for 5 min! A playful twist on open mics. ▫︎ Doors + sign-ups: 6pm ET | Starts: 6:30pm ▫︎ Hosted by @toddwords (@wordhack) 📍 National Academy of Design, 519 W 26th St, Fl 2 🔗 RSVP: pools.events/event/8CHlMLbK

how else might the web be social? really enjoying this @sfpc.study session on building benches for the web with @spencer.place & @munusshih.bsky.social! ✨🪭🪑🌌💜 sfpc.study/sessions/sum...

love being part of this @sfpc.study session on the browser as game engine with @everest.bsky.social 💻🫧🌌🌕✨

first day of the second "the browser is already a game engine" class with sfpc. excited for the next 10 weeks of talking and thinking deeply about online games

[SIGN-UPS OPEN] Are you curious about the ethical & emotional dimensions of technology, trust, pleasure, and control? Join us for this 1-day workshop led by Melanie Hoff! ▬ Saturday, July 1-4pm 📍 National Academy of Design (519 West 26th Street, Floor 2) sfpc.study/sessions/fut...

Poetic Prom's right around the corner! ⁺₊ Masks encouraged + provided by The Health Stellium & Come Forever ☼ Purified air provided by Artists in Resistance NYC ⁺₊ Harm reduction provided by Party Safe Medics ♡ Get your tickets: sfpc.study/poetic-promenade

⁺₊☼ POETIC PROM COMMUNITY ACCESS TICKET RELEASE ⁺₊☼⁺ Cost can make gathering difficult. For the next 48 hrs, we’re opening a limited release of community-priced tickets so more of the people who shape SFPC can join us at Poetic Promenade. ♡ Limited tickets available: sfpc.study/share/community-tix

Started my Stealing Back The Archive class today! I am so happy to be a student again, even if it's only for 4 weeks. @sfpc.study

the creation of this piece is based on the method I've learned at @sfpc.study last year. the whole process was done in one week and it went like an improv rather than ordinary game development. please check out how far we took off and laugh it off our silly slide-comedy-show

Open Computer Lab happens every Tuesday this summer: walk in & explore through retro CRT monitors. Experimental software, mini games, folder poems, net art, and more! ▫︎ Tuesdays, June 23–August 11, 1–6pm 📍 National Academy of Design (NYC) - No sign up required!

How do extraction and erasure shape time, land, and memory? Join @yvonnempwo for Chronopolitics of Extraction, a free, public talk on mapping as a political and relational practice. ▫︎ Saturday, June 13, 1:30-3:00pm 📍 National Academy of Design (NYC) RSVP: pools.events/event/foBADBLV

Chia Amisola will join us for Poetic Promenade on June 20 & 21 at Roulette, NYC with generative live-coded visuals sponsored by are.na. Come witness code become poetry in celebration of a community where learning is an ongoing, shared practice. Tickets available at sfpc.study/poetic-promenade