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Official account for the Code as a Liberal Art program in Eugene Lang College at The New School #CodeAtLang #CriticalCodeStudies
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codeatlang.bsky.social
Thanks, Shannon, for the shoutout!

We're thrilled to be able to offer this class & hope it might serve as a model for similar coding programs to offer students opportunities to be campus media makers, analogous to journalism programs & school newspapers!

#criticalcomputerscience #codeasaliberalart
shannonmattern.bsky.social Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Oct 3
My friend @rorshock.bsky.social — CS undergrad, humanities PhD — has built a brilliant prgm @ The New School: “Code as a Liberal Art” nurtures “code + computational thinking as tools for critical + creative inquiry,” and as forces for 👍+👎 social change. His spring Software Engineering class looks 🌟
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Software Engineering Applications Spring 2026 Code as a Liberal Art, Eugene Lang College, The New School This course gives students the opportunity to experience and critically examine the software e...
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October 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
codeatlang.bsky.social
We love seeing our faculty doing great things!

Congrats, Dan, on this bizarre and fascinating project
makeitdoathing.com Dan Moore @makeitdoathing.com · Nov 19
I'm thrilled to share my latest creation!

🎙️⚾️ #TheGreatAmericanPastime Endless AI-simulated baseball on the Infinite Baseball Radio Network. An exploration at the intersection of generative AI and storytelling.

Tune in: infinitebaseball.ai
#AI #Baseball #NetArt #GenAI
Infinite Baseball Radio Network
Welcome to the future of baseball broadcasting on the Infinite Baseball Radio Network!
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October 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
codeatlang.bsky.social
Reminder that this exciting event with @ken-goldberg.bsky.social is tomorrow!

Weds, 9/17, 6-7:30pm, Wollman Hall, 65 W 11th Street, 5th Floor

There's still time to register:
event.newschool.edu/ken-goldberg
September 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
codeatlang.bsky.social
We're thrilled to be welcoming Ken Goldberg (@ken-goldberg.bsky.social) to campus to talk about robots & AI for CALC v3.1

Weds, 9/17, 6-7:30pm, Wollman Hall, 65 W 11th Street, 5th Floor [Note new time]

Open to all; registration required; refreshments will be served
event.newschool.edu/ken-goldberg
September 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
codeatlang.bsky.social
The Code program is delighted to be hosting evolutionary biologist & technologist Tugçe Bilgin (tugcebilgin.net) on campus to talk about data & creativity!

Friday, Sept 5, 12pm
6 East 16th St, room 538

Open to all; registration required; refreshments will be served
event.newschool.edu/tugce-bilgin
September 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Computer scientist goes silent after FBI raid and purging from University website
Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
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March 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
codeatlang.bsky.social
Join us next week for Nick Montfort (@docmofo.bsky.social) sharing two recent books on generative AI: "Output" & "All the Way for the Win"

March 25, 5-6:30pm; Hirshon Suite, 55 W 13th St, 2nd floor

Open to all; registration required; refreshments will be served
event.newschool.edu/nick-montfort
Over a pale green background is a grayscale image from around the 1960s of a woman holding paper coming out of a large, old school computer printer, which is situated in front of a wall of books as if in a library. Overlaid above the image in the top-left corner in a pixelated font is "CaLC_ CODE AT LANG COLLOQUIUM". Below the image, in a pixelated font is "EXE AND TXT". Below that is: "On computational machinery & language Nick Montfort, Professor of Digital Media, MIT Tuesday, March 25 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Hirschon Suite, 55 W 13th St, 2nd floor
March 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
codeatlang.bsky.social
We're gearing up for Warren Sack's event tomorrow. Sure to be a fun & fascinating evening!

There's still time to register here:
event.newschool.edu/softwarearts

#softwarearts #codeasaliberalart
February 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
codeatlang.bsky.social
Next week CALC is thrilled to welcome Warren Sack who will share material from this recent book, The Software Arts, offering a history of software & craft.

Feb 19, 5-7pm; 79 Fifth Ave, room 538

All are welcome; registration required; refreshments will be served
event.newschool.edu/softwarearts
A pale orange background with a grayscale image of a row of looms in an old-fashioned textfile factory, collaged onto a modern day data center. Pixelated text overlaid reads "CaLC_ CODE AT LANG COLLOQUIUM V2.1". Below the image, a highly pixelated font reads "The Software Arts". And below that, "Warren Sack, Professor of Film + Digital Media; University of California, Santa Cruz". At the bottom of the image: "Wednesday, February 19, 5:00PM - 7:00PM, 79 Fifth Ave, oom 538". And finally in the lower-right corner, the logotype for "Code as a Liberal Art" in a monospace font with text at a 45 degree angle.
February 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
codeatlang.bsky.social
Looks great! We look forward to including this in our curricula

#criticalmaking #criticalcodestudies #codeasaliberalart
xinemata.bsky.social Xin Xin @xinemata.bsky.social · Jan 7
The Critical Coding Cookbook PDF Reader is now downloadable at criticalcode.recipes/downloads. The 276 pages of delicious reading includes hyperlinks to code examples and it’s printer-friendly 🍥

Special thanks to Munus Shih for turning the website into a book 🍢

#criticalmaking #openknowledge
January 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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atg-dbp.bsky.social
Everything seems like a conspiracy theory when you don't know how anything works.

*this comment came from someone else who decided to delete it.
December 15, 2024 at 12:44 AM
codeatlang.bsky.social
Fascinating & important work!
timnitgebru.bsky.social Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · Dec 16
Dear computer vision researchers, students & practitioners🔇🔇🔇

Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles.

PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...
Screenshot of Table of Contents (Part 1) Contents 1 Introduction 217 2 Positionality 221 3 Overview of Risks and Harms Associated with Computer Vision Systems and Proposed Mitigation Strategies 223 3.1 Representational Harms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 3.2 Quality-of-Service and Allocative Harms . . . . . . . . . . 229 3.3 Interpersonal Harms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 3.4 Societal Harms: System Destabilization and Exacerbating Inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 4 Frameworks and Principles for Computer Vision Researchers 266 4.1 Guidelines for Responsible Data and Model Development . 267 4.2 Measurement Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 4.3 Reflexivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 5 Reorientations of Computer Vision Research 276 5.1 Grounded in Historical Context and Considering Power Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 5.2 Small, Task Specific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 5.3 Community-Rooted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 Screenshot of Table of Contents (Part 2) 6 Systemic Change 285 6.1 Collective Action and Whistleblowing . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 6.2 Refusal/The Right not to Build Something . . . . . . . . . 287 6.3 Independent Funding Outside of Military and Multinational Corporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 7 Conclusion 291 References 293
January 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
codeatlang.bsky.social
Know anyone interested in teaching a 4-week, project-based mini-course on computer vision & facial recognition next year (fall 2025) in Code as a Liberal Art at The New School?

12 hours of instruction; 2-3 technical lessons & readings on race, representation & algorithmic bias

#criticalcodestudies
January 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM