If, Then: Technology and Poetics

What’s Happening:
Winter/Spring 2025

This year, we are so excited to offer two tracks of programming. IF our monthly workshops show us what is possible, THEN what happens when we dedicate time and space together for demos and feedback on creative projects of our own?

IF: monthly workshops

✨ Craft Talk with J.R. Carpenter on A Handmade Web
January 17, 2025 @12PM Eastern
Watch the recording in our archive here

✨ If, Then x Ensemble Park Reading
February 21, 2025 @1PM Eastern
Watch the recording in our archive here

✨ Weirding the Web with Halim Madi
March 21, 2025 @1PM Eastern
Watch the recording in our archive here

✨ Mark Sample on Training a Small Language Model with RiTa
April 11, 2025 @1PM Eastern (rescheduled from Nov!)
Watch the recording in our archive here

✨ End of Year Open Mic!
May 23, 2025 @1PM Eastern
RSVP here

THEN: community + accountability + feedback

THEN is a 5-week commitment of 75-minute virtual weekly meetings, geared toward folks who want community, accountability, and feedback in their creative computational practices. We met on Zoom on Wednesdays at 5PM Eastern, from March 5 to April 2, 2025. If you have a project or practice that can benefit from check-ins, feedback, and working together in community, please join us next time! ✨

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If you’d like to check out what we did this past semester (or before!), head to our archive for more.

If, Then: Technology and Poetics is a collaborative, interdisciplinary working group and workshop series promoting inclusivity and skills-building in creative computation for artists, scholars, and teachers. Join us for monthly discussions, workshops, and events!

Contact Carly Schnitzler or Lillian-Yvonne Bertram for more info and to get involved