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School for Poetic Computation
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Experimental school supporting study in art, code, hardware + critical theory. A place for unlearning and learning.

Applications open for Winter 2026 ⇣⇣

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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 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.
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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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 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.
November 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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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...
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.
November 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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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 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.
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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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...
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.
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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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 HTTPoetics with video games, decorated with pixellated motifs
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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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 Decoding Tendencies in Live Coding with video games, decorated with pixellated motifs
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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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 Machine Language with video games, decorated with pixellated motifs
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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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...
Flyer for the class Narrative Constellations with video games, decorated with pixellated motifs
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Join us this Winter for an all-levels writing class that explores how poetry and radical, experimental forms of expression can help us remain present amid ongoing global violations against life.

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November 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Join us this January for a beginner-friendly class where you’ll use game mechanics as poetic devices to tell stories and explore ideas through play! Gain skills in coding and design that extend far beyond games themselves.

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October 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Announcing WINTER 2026 at SFPC! ࣪ ˖⿻

This winter, six beloved classes return as sanctuaries where technical & conceptual tools meet poetic inquiry—making space for reflection, creation, & subversion amid the violences of relentless technological acceleration

Read more + apply by Nov 17 @ sfpc.study
Winter 2026 flyer. There’s a black background with yellow and blue pixellated elements. The classes listed are: Machine Learning / Narrative Constellations / Decoding Tendencies in Live Coding / HTTPoetics / Expressive Design with Video Games / Spectacle, Presence and Poetry.
October 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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‧₊˚ 모┊SFPC Alumni Profiles is an interview series featuring alumni practicing poetic computation into their communities and work┊모 ˚₊ ‧

Daniela Guerrero aka NINA NINA is a Mexican artist and musician using art, the body, and technology as media for liberation.

→ sfpc.study/blog/nina-nina
There’s a photo of Daniela Guerrero aka NINA NINA: she stands in front of the camera, with serious and defiant look. She’s wearing heavy eye make up with red tears streaming down her face. On top of the photo, there’s the quote: Maybe I’m just hacking myself into freedom. Plaquette of Tecno-Coatza, a sonic fiction and technoshamanic experiment, depicting fragments of Olmec iconography. There’s four symbols on top in blue, and one in black, bigger, in the center, of Quetzalocatl.
October 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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A shared language based on street practices that liberated blocks, neighborhoods, and minds. Journey through the digital route traced by Lukaza Branfman Verissimo & Sarah Al-Yahya where they stop once for each week the class spent together.

𓇢 sfpc.study/blog/collect...
Participants in a Zoom call hold a viewfinder made out of paper with a cutout shape to the camera.
October 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Blurry, pixelated, or otherwise flawed, images like this circulate daily on the Internet. In Imperfect Pictures, we took them as they were: meaningful because they carry history.

“I prefer my images with issues,” a class recap written by Kayla Drzewicki & Will Allstetter: sfpc.study/blog/images-...
September 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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How do we make ourselves receptive to gifts? How do we create a continuous cycle of giving?

🎁 Read the letter that Elan Ullendorff and Spencer Chang wrote for their students of Gift Interfaces, where they immersed themselves in gift-giving cultures: sfpc.study/blog/gift-in...
September 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Join us online next Sunday, September 28 at 2pm ET for a series of presentations and performances from the students of HTTPoetics + anthology launch!

Taught by Todd Anderson w/ Tyler Yin and Kayla Drzewicki

❧ RSVP: withfriends.events/event/O1DDBC...
Showcase flyer. The background has blurry, pixellated depictions of clouds and fire. On top of them, there's noisy-textured text that reads: School for Poetic Computation presents: HTTPoetics Showcase // September 28 2pm ET / Live on Twitch / + Anthology Launch!
September 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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We had so much fun at NewGame+ last Saturday! An interactive pop-up electronic cafe where we showcased games made by SFPC students at the Museum of the Moving Image.

❧ Photos by Taryn Segal
Two people sit side by side at a CRT computer. One uses the mouse while smiling, and the other, wearing headphones, looks attentively at the screen. Two people sit at a desk using an old Dell CRT monitor. One wears headphones and laughs, while the other smiles at the screen. A child sits at a CRT computer playing a game, wearing headphones, while another child stands nearby watching. Other people can be seen in the background.
September 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Read about the speculative worlds that students of Code Societies imagined when prompted to imagine a liberatory learning society: sfpc.study/blog/code-so...

∗∗ Code Societies: Cybernetic Sculpture was a class taught by @melanieh0ff.bsky.social with Lee Beckwith last Spring
A screenshot of a terminal with a black background and pink monospace font. There are two ASCII illustrations of books, containing the phrases “we are also teachers” and “we are also students.” Below the books, there is the following text: “We learn by sharing knowledge, by keeping an open mind, by knowing we know nothing but also everything. We must never forget we are students first. We believe in the dance between giving and taking, inhaling and exhaling.” At the bottom is a list of folders and files: “you_are_the_seed”, “i”, “love”, “you”, “dig_up_roots”, “altar.sh”, and “altar.txt”.
September 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Games are not neutral — players often find cultural hegemony butting up against Blackness and other oppressed identities. Jaylyn Quinn wrote about the mechanics of speculation and more after teaching Damage Overflow Value.

∗∗ Read the blog post: sfpc.study/blog/damage-...
A photo of a paper fortune teller is displayed on an Are.na webpage. It is titled “Immigration Fortune Teller, Events,” with the caption “I decided to represent the different outcomes for immigrants coming into the US for various reasons using a fortune teller. My students (re)taught me how to make one and I was always charmed at how we as kids delighted at the interplay of different “endings” you could get based on things like the length of your name or how old you are. I used common mechanics like coin flipping to dictate how many times players must “roll” and get certain outcomes, which I write on the outer and inner panels.” To the left, in a Zoom meeting window, is Austin Pineda, a brown skinned person with long dark hair and round glasses, the creator of the fortune teller.
September 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Kengchakaj Kengkarnka is a musician and artist working with improvised music, electronics, analog synthesizers, and live coding. He is one half of elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ, a collaborative practice with Fame Nitcha Tothong.

‧₊˚ 🔗┊Read more: sfpc.study/blog/kengcha...
A stylized portrait of a person with long hair, bathed in neon red, pink, and teal lighting.
September 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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We are very happy to welcome Ahana Ganguly (they/them) to the SFPC team as the new Program Coordinator!

Ahana will be managing administrative workflows, coordinating with teachers and staff, and ensuring programs run smoothly at all stages.
A photo of a person with brown skin, black short hair, wearing a brown shirt. The sun is hitting their face and their gesture is that of a squint combined with a smile. There’s graphic elements overlaid on top: circles, squares and stars. There’s text that reads: Ahana Ganguly / Program Coordinator. The page shows a complex web of black lines connecting white text boxes containing passages about cavities, tooth decay, drilling, and food. Some keywords like "decay," "drill," "teacup," "cavity," and "food" are highlighted in green. A crocheted square laid on grass, with a pattern of abstract green and blue shapes on a black background. The words "VERY STRONG" are stitched in large red letters, with "VERY" at the bottom left and "STRONG" at the top right.
August 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Join us at the Museum of the Moving Image on Saturday, September 6 for NewGame+, an interactive showcase and pop-up electronic cafe! Play and explore games made by students (11-6pm) & learn more in our panel discussion (3-4:15pm).

movingimage.org/event/new-ga...
Flyer for NewGame+: Imagined Worlds from The School for Poetic Computation. The background is textured, it has tones of purple and pink. It contains an image of a rendered, video game building. It has the text: Saturday, September 6 / Free Entry / 11-6pm Pop-Up Electronic Cafe / 3-4:15pm Panel Discussion. The flyer has the same motifs and textures than the ones mentioned in the last slide. There is the following text: Panel Discussion 3-4:15pm. Featured in the slide are the panelists: Todd Anderson, April Soetarman, Viktor Timofeev and Cameron Granger
August 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Poetry? Memes? Dreams? All of these are "equipment for living" - the things that fill our lives with meaning. Rosalie Yu & Charles Berret wrote about this concept and how they explored it last fall: sfpc.study/blog/equipme...
A 3D world created in Unity. It’s a temple on a mountaintop where the user progresses through a series of poetic archways toward a rotating altar at the center. Screenshot of a Zoom call with multiple participants visible at the top. The shared screen shows a handmade page titled 'How to Remember Your Dreams' with colorful illustrations and handwritten text, alongside notebooks and textured materials arranged on a desk.
August 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Invisible ink, key cryptography, hosting, probing state surveillance mechanisms, and other acts of care... read the Advanced Secret Keepers dispatch written by Seldom Chen, where she reflects on privacy and intimacy in the context of her class: sfpc.study/blog/advance...
There’s two images side to side. On the left, there’s a diagram with two connecting cubes, which depicts Ursula K Le Guin’s “Telling is Listening” machine model. Then, a hand drawn model inserts a phone in the middle, with the caption: secondary / digital oralities. A hand written note below reads: some combo of encryption + steganography intimacy, trust. A pokemon card for Goblin Wardriver
August 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM