This is something I am really proud to announce (a few weeks late, but still wonderful) — I’ve been working with a group of friends/peers/role models to launch new classes at the School for Poetic Computation, and they are here! The group of collaborators co-leading this school are so intent and persistent on making this a place to learn computation where computation isn’t the point, a place to unlearn how to be “good at computers”. A place where code is inseparable from the history that brought us these tools, the geographies that they produce, the many hands they pass through, and the liberatory futures that we can have a hand in bringing about. I am really confused thinking about how I came to be so fascinated with making art and poetry through and with machines, sometimes I don’t know why it’s important to me, or I lose track of purpose by getting sucked into a spiral of “good engineering”... I’m thankful for
@mchapoarchive ,
@rojakgirl ,
@melanieh0ff ,
@beatsbyzai ,
@ivorytower_headass ,
@toddwords ,
@doodybrains , and so many other friends for being so persistent in divining ways to study and share these questions together. I’ve been reading John Ashbury: be sure it is to take place in the matrix of our everyday thoughts and fantasies, our wonderment at how we got from there to here. Follow the link in my bio to check out our beautiful website— plus, there are still three classes with open applications! Thank you also to
@miluandashou for serendipitously sending me a picture of a Urodid Moth cocoon (slide two) and giving me the motivation to finally make this post 🙃and slide three is the tiniest baby grasshopper on my cucumber plant 🌱
