SFPC:The First Class

presentation for the final day of SFPC

Transcript

1. SFPC:The First Class at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center. November 22nd, 2013 Presented by Taeyoon Choi, Co-founder of SFPC
2. SFPC: The First Class This presentation is dedicated to the First Class of SFPC
3. I’d like to invite you to a day in SFPC in 33 Flatbush, Downtown Brooklyn.
4. We had four main teachers who are also co-founders of SFPC.
5. Zach
6. Jen
7. Amit
8. Taeyoon
9. Out of 60+ amazing applicants, we accepted 15 students from around the world as the first class.
10. Most classes were planned weekly, but schedule was variable upon needs of the students and availability of teachers. Myself and Zach were in school 4+ days/ week to help students and also take care of administration. Casey also helped with admin.
11. There were classes on coding and hacking. * Zach explaining how pixels work in a morning class
12. There is poetics in the nature of computation: the place where logic meets electricity, and math meets language, which we find beautiful. * Learning logic gates with low level electronics in Taeyoon’s class
13. Zach taught Input and Output and many other classes. Amit taught Learning Curve. Jen taught Math for Artists and Art for Mathists and organized Open Dinners. Taeyoon taught Drawings and circuits, and organized Art of walking.
14. We planned classes for experimenting with teaching and learning.
15. Jen’s Open Dinner was communal cooking and sharing food and thoughts with special guests.
16. Taeyoon’s Art of Walking was walking and reading
17. What mattered was sharing time to make situations,
18. writing code and reading essays.
19. After few weeks, we started to call homework as ‘Propositions’.
20. Most importantly, student lead workshops ruled.
21. A lot of time just talking
22. Debugging together
23. Explaining how pixels work Explaining how pixels work being attentive and present
24. and selflessly helping one another
25. Everyday we met our rockstars *30+ visiting artists
26. Bret Victor
27. Ramsey Nasser
28. Brian House
29. Adam Magyar
30. Takahiro Yamaguchi
31. Paola Antonelli
32. Jacob Tonski
33. Caitlin Morris
34. April 17th, 2013 Christine Sun Kim
35. Dan Phiffer
36. Kyle McDonald
37. Syd Lieberman
38. Golan Levin
39. Zach Gage
40. Brian Droitcour
41. Jürg Lehni
42. And so many more *full list on http:/ /sfpc.io/thefirstclass
43. and, everyday we found our new rockstars
44. Through small victories * Meet the students from SFPC:The First Class
45. Simona de Rosa
46. Jonathan Dahan
47. Ishac Bertran
48. Andy Clymer
49. Jon Wohl
50. Jason Levine
51. Moises Sanabria
52. Claire Lin
53. Jesse Wolpert
54. Le Wei
55. Tega Brain
56. Mini Kim
57. Motoi Shimizu
58. Rachel Uwa
59. Paul Chang
60. Casey Gollan *admin superpower
61. Yoobi *special guest
62. Just a few special moments to remember
63. Everything is amazing during
64. The Golden Hour
65. Open dinners
66. hosted by amazing chef Jen