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SFPC spring 2014

Taeyoon Choi
May 12, 2014
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SFPC spring 2014

for SFPC's final event on May 4th.

Taeyoon Choi

May 12, 2014
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  1. School for Poetic Computation
    Spring session, May 4th, 2014
    Taeyoon Choi

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  2. We are a really small school.

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  3. 2014 Spring
    4 teachers,
    1 administrator,
    4 guest teachers
    10~ guest speakers
    ______________
    15 students

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  4. This time, we ran the school for two weeks.
    It was fast and compressed compared to ten
    weeks term last fall.
    Short time frame allowed participants who
    otherwise could not have experienced sfpc.

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  5. Curriculum
    • Zach and Taeyoon teaching on daily basis
    • Jonathan and Tega teaching workshops and
    and also offering individual support
    • Guest teachers are curated into the theme

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  6. Zach
    Lieberman
    Teacher, SFPC co-founder

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  7. Taeyoon Choi
    Teacher, SFPC co-founder

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  8. Tega Brain
    Teacher, SFPC Alumni

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  9. Jonathan
    Dahan
    Teacher, SFPC Alumni

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  10. Casey Gollan
    Administrator

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  11. Moises Sanabria
    Art 404
    Web design and archive

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  12. Day 1~3: Basics of Computation
    Day 4~7: Exploration of Tools
    Day 8~10: Code + Poetry
    Full schedule: https:/
    /github.com/SFPC/spring2014

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  13. We are getting better at organizing events, setting up clear
    expectations, aggregating knowledge.
    We are also able to teach more efficiently because we
    understand other teacher’s material.

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  14. Tuition for two weeks was $1000/student, which
    is directly proportional to our ten weeks
    program.
    This meant we had tighter budget to run school.
    We don't want a different business model, we
    like the model we have. How can we make it
    sustainable?

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  15. We collected everyone’s questions on the first day

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  16. Classes ran from 1 to 3 hours.

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  17. ◦ Masa Kawamura and Qanta Shimizu
    Hands on workshop

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  18. We had Propositions instead of assignments.

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  19. Kyle McDonald & Lauren McCarthy
    Social Hacking
    We had classes on special topics.

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  20. Kaho Abe
    Wearable Game control

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  21. Gabriella Levine
    Biomimetic design

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  22. Becky Stearn
    Lunch time with special guests

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  23. Lev Manovich
    Literature, Models, Algorithms

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  24. Sean McIntyre
    Mesh network
    Sometimes impromptu workshop started at 9:30PM

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  25. Kenneth Goldsmith
    Special guest for final event

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  26. 2014 Spring
    Participants

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  27. Alexander Porter

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  28. Nathan Koch

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  29. Lee Tusman

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  30. Zak Greene

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  31. Shobun Baile

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  32. Oscar Schwartz

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  33. Hiroyaki Yamane

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  34. Ryota Okawa
    YOYO

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  35. Firm Reed
    Tothong

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  36. Scott Leinweber

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  37. Ida Benedetto

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  38. Daniel Wilson

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  39. Hyojung Seo

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  40. Diana Sánchez Barrios

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  41. Alex Zandi

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  42. We are planning another full semester starting in September,
    2014 in New York.
    We are thinking about better access to more diverse
    community. Please contact us if you have an idea to make
    SFPC more balanced.
    We are searching for financial support from the community
    and corporations in hope to make the school more
    affordable.
    Email for more information and comments.
    [email protected]

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  43. We thank all of our alumni for continued support, visiting
    speakers and teachers for generously sharing their energy
    and knowledge.
    Lev Manovich
    Becky Sterne
    Jer Thorp, Ben Rubin , OCR
    Masashi Kawamura, Qanta Shimizu, PARTY
    Kenneth Goldsmith
    We also thank Gary Chou of Orbital, the amazing space we
    used for two weeks in 155 Rivington street.

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  44. Final event
    more pictures
    https:/
    /www.flickr.com/photos/11327371@N06/sets/72157644593603494/

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