School
for
Poetic
Computation
Drawing data by hand is a way to attune our eyes to the hidden and so-plain-as-to-be-unseen dimensions of our world. In this course we will 'sketch' data as a way to engage with data concerning us, our communities, and the greater world. We might plot our fears, map our neighborhoods, graph our love lives, and chart the impact of our experiences. We will focus on the handmade, quirky, human-scale data that we can gather, clean, manage, and visualize without expert use of technology. As we develop our personal practices, we also enter the murky world of data as a text. Data is entangled in a knot-work of relationships. Work involving data cannot be divorced from the way that data is collected, stored, manipulated, bought, sold, and stolen by organizations, governments, and other entities. Experimenting with data as a tool for artistic curiosity and understanding necessitates asking questions about the materiality of data, its uses in surveillance, the positions of subject and collector, and all the glories and dangers of classification.
Participants will be asked to draw. This may feel unfamiliar or scary. However, if you can draw a line, circle and/or triangle, you meet the prerequisites.
Participants are expected to spend around two hours every week outside of class doing readings and assignments consisting of data-sketching, reflection, or light research.
This class may be for you if you:
This class may NOT be for you if you:
Applications open until Applications closed on November 17, 2024.
You can expect to hear back from us about the status of your application on December 3, 2024. Please email us at admissions@sfpc.study with any questions you have.
For 5 classes, it costs $750 + processing fees, for a one-time payment. We also offer payment plans. Participants can schedule weekly or monthly payments of the same amount. First and last payments must be made before the start and end of class. *Processing fees apply for each payment.
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