Poetic Hardware - Open Screen Walk

Description

Participants of Poetic Hardware will each have 8 minutes to present including an audience response. Join us to celebrate student work from the first online SFPC Poetic Hardware Session. In Poetic Hardware we learn computational hardware as a way to engage with the physical world and broaden our creative practices. This 10-week online curriculum is supported by a custom electronics learning kit intended for beginners to learn about analog + digital electronics, a programmable micro-controller, sensors, and mechanisms through a lens of legibility and thoughtful exploration. Beginning with discrete electronic components such as resistors, LEDs, and transistors, and then moving to integrated circuits, Arduino, sensors, motors, mechanisms, and building physical things, our focus is on connecting with the physical nature, system, rules, and materiality of electronics + hardware. We address electronics as human-scale objects, which we can see, shape, and manipulate in a circuit. With an emphasis on legibility, we dissolve the microscopic abstractions and systems, which are usually obscured in conventional technology products and re-establish our relationship with technology. Through instructor-led tutorials, modular circuits, and creative hands-on prompts, we will create custom electronics with our hands and gain access to electronic production tools that are normally reserved for mass production. By the end of the course, expect to have a working familiarity with basic analog and digital electronics, and the confidence to begin to apply computational tools to our creative practices. The Poetic Hardware class is developed and taught by CW&T (Che-Wei Wang + Taylor Levy), Tiri Kananuruk and Sebastian Morales. Poster by Chien Lu