If, Then: Technology and Poetics

What’s Happening—Fall 2024

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

✨ Spencer Chang on Designing a Communal Internet
September 27, 2024 @1PM Eastern
watch in our archive!

✨ Alicia Guo on Creating an Infinite Poem
October 11, 2024 @1PM Eastern
watch in our archive!

✨ Open Mic!
December 13, 2024 @1PM Eastern
watch in our archive!

✨ Craft Talk with J.R. Carpenter on A Handmade Web
January 17, 2025 @12PM Eastern
RSVP here

✨ If, Then x Ensemble Park Reading
February 21, 2025 @1PM Eastern
RSVP here

✨ Mark Sample on Training a Small Language Model with RiTA
~~November 22, 2024 @1PM Eastern~~
Rescheduled for April 11, 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 meet 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! Sign up here. ✨

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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