▢ ◻ APPLICATIONS OPEN! ◻ ▢
New and returning classes this Summer at SFPC! Our classes this season invite us to use the tools at our disposal to create with care, creativity, and a critical perspective.
Apply by April 27 at sfpc.study
Promotional banner in coral and white reading: "School for Poetic Computation presents Summer 2026, IRL & URL, June-August." Arrow labels list offerings: "Prom & Graduation," "Online Classes," "Public Talks," "In-Person Workshops," and "Future Schools @ the National Academy of Design.”
Big things are happening at SFPC this Summer!
Join us online & in-person for: ✾ Online classes ✽ In-person workshops ✾ Free public talks ✽ Prom & graduation ✾ and our Future Schools Residency at the National Academy of Design!
Browse the full program at sfpc.study
A picture of the earth from space with a question mark over it.
There are still some seats available in my @sfpc.study 2-day workshop: "How To Find What You Are Looking For". We'll be looking manual and automated investigative techniques. No programming experience needed. It'll be a blast! Sign up here:
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Made a short game about corporate bullshit, emotional labor, and gender dynamics for @aprilsoetarman.bsky.social's class at @sfpc.study 😌 cattsmall.com/slack-game
Flyer announcing the School for Poetic Computation’s Poetic Promenade. There’s blurry symbols of flowers and music notes in orange and blue. The text reads, from top to bottom: SAVE THE DATE / JUNE 2026 / School for Poetic Computation’s Poetic Promenade / A prom. A graduation. A celebration of lifelong learning. / Tickets on sale this April.
Save the date! Poetic Promenade is SFPC’s first large-scale community fundraiser: a two-day celebration that reimagines prom and graduation through art, code, and collective care.
∗ June 20 & 21 at Roulette, Brooklyn. Invitations, tickets, and full details coming soon!
I'm co-teaching a 2-day in-person workshop at @sfpc.study: "How To Find What You Are Looking For". sfpc.study/sessions/spr...
"How can data collection be leveraged for liberatory, poetic, or critical ends? How can artists make use of techniques deployed by private investigators?"
Thumbnails on a black background depict diverse scenes, including digital audio files, outdoor settings, radio transmitters on tables, and hands using radio receivers and transmitters.
Is there a way to engage critically with radio technologies? The students of Radio Radius, taught by Miguel Gajdos & Bryant Wells learned about the creative possibilities of this technology.
>>> Read the class log: sfpc.study/blog/radio-r...
New project out as part of the latest issue of The HTML Review 🐍
Kp'ọjọ kp'ọjọ is an interactive folktale that unveils itself as you learn words in Itsẹkiri. kpojo.world/story
𓊆 ・ Browse the Imperfect Pictures Class Anthology!・ 𓊇
This website is the class anthology and archive, collecting projects created by students in ɪᴍᴘᴇʀꜰᴇᴄᴛ ᴘɪᴄᴛᴜʀᴇꜱ across sessions.
☞ projects.sfpc.study/imperfect-pi...
HTTPoetics Showcase flyer. Text reads: School for Poetic Computation presents: HTTPOETICS SHOWCASE / March 22 / 2pm ET / Live on Twitch / + Anthology Launch
RSVP: HTTPoetics Showcase
Join us online next Sunday, March 22 at 2pm ET for a series of presentations and performances from the students of HTTPoetics + a new anthology launch!
Taught by Todd Anderson
❧ Live on Twitch - RSVP: withfriends.events/event/zKhERa...
Poster for a workshop titled “Counterveillance” at the School for Poetic Computation, taught by American Artist at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, set in a blue, grainy type on a pink background inside an octagonal frame with small geometric surveillance-like icons.
Portrait of American Artist framed in an octagonal border on a pink background, showing them seated and looking toward the camera in a blue sweater and white collared shirt, with decorative squiggled icons and the words “AMERICAN ARTIST,” “Teacher,” and “Counterveillance” around the frame.
Join us at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (NYC) for a critical workshop exploring surveillance, memory, and affirmative types of looking with American Artist.
Offered alongside the art exhibit LOVER LOVE by Shu Lea Cheang (Apr 3, 2026-Jan 3, 2027).
Sign up: sfpc.study/sessions/spr...
Neon green and pink poster for a School for Poetic Computation workshop titled "Consensual Hacking," featuring bold distorted lettering, two gloved hands reaching toward each other in the center, and text reading "Taught by Melanie Hoff at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, April 6, 6–9 PM, NYC.”
Neon pink and green portrait graphic of Melanie Hoff framed in a glowing oval, with the words "Melanie Hoff" at the top and "Teacher Consensual Hacking Teacher" around the edges.
Join us at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (NYC) for a workshop exploring trust and technology through digital and social consent with @melanieh0ff.bsky.social.
Offered alongside the art exhibit LOVER LOVE by Shu Lea Cheang (Apr 3, 2026-Jan 3, 2027).
Sign up: sfpc.study/sessions/spr...
Horizontal neon yellow and blue starburst poster reading "Spring Workshops 2026" in the center, with "In-person," "School for Poetic Computation," "April," and "NYC" spaced around the star-shaped border.
Gather in-person with the School for Poetic Computation for one- & two-day workshops that bring our study into shared space!
✿ Consensual Hacking w/ Melanie Hoff
◻︎ Counterveillance w/ American Artist
✴︎ How to Find What You’re Looking For w/ Sam Lavigne & Maura Brewer
Sign up: sfpc.study
𝄪 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?
sfpc.study/sessions/spr...
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.
sfpc.study/sessions/spr...
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! ▀▄▀▄
sfpc.study/sessions/spr...
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 💙
sfpc.study/sessions/spr...
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.
sfpc.study/sessions/spr...
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
sfpc.study/sessions/spr...
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
sfpc.study/sessions/spr...
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
sfpc.study/sessions/spr...
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
