SFPC is an alternative school for art and technology. We are striving to create a model of education based on collaboration between faculty and students. By participating you will be actively shaping an emerging culture of open source and transparent education.
This fall we bring five classes which ask: How do practices of genetic sampling and biotechnology enact the logistics of surveillance under the guise of public policy? What role do zines play in subcultures? What does data reveal about the world if we engage with it on a human-scale? How can code and automation help us see and manipulate large collections of videos in new ways? How can emerging web technologies inspire new, and more connected musical experiences? From approaching data on a human scale through biomonitoring or tracking our daily experiences, to experimenting with zine formats, browsing through video archives with machine learning techniques, and creating new interactive musical experiences, we’re ready to follow the path lit by the brightest moon of the year, come and gather for the harvest!
The school was co-founded in by Zach Lieberman, Taeyoon Choi, Amit Pitaru, and Jen Lowe in 2013, with Casey Gollan working on administration. The School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) is an experimental school in New York founded in 2013. School supports interdisciplinary study in art, code, hardware and critical theory. It is a place for unlearning and learning. Programs challenge the capitalistic, heteronormative and patriarchal canon of social and computer sciences. Participants are treated as collaborators and we formally encourage the power they have to determine their experience and education. The special culture of our institution is one grounded on communal care and solidarity across social differences.
The school is a platform for people who are Black, Indigenous, of color, trans, gender non-conforming, queer, disabled, survivors, living with and/or from low-income backgrounds, and oppressed to feel empowered that their ideas are important, necessary and central.