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In this ten-week summer program, you’ll explore the intersection of technology and art, activism, and community-building.

Artists, complete beginners, and experienced coders are all welcome to apply. There will be new opportunities for artists and designers to learn to use technology and gain coding skills and experienced coders will engage with their craft in new, creative ways!

Together we'll conceptualise and create socially-engaged artwork and stories in both old-fashioned ways and through using code, electronics, and more. From the whimsical, to the thoughful, to the subversive, this course is set up to take you on an introspective journey that inevitably leads to discovering the world around you. It could even change your life!

Individual and group explorations will challenge you to dig deeper  into the creative and expressive possibilities of new technologies,  digital tools, and sensors. (And while gaining a

foundation in coding  for interactive spaces or for the web!)

Most days will begin with a group check-in, followed by a hands-on  lecture, break for lunch, and then lab. There will be a weekly  electronics & sensors course, and guest artist visits, studio tours  and other events throughout.     

At the end of each week we'll participate in atypical  interventions, engaging with the public through humorous and profound  provocation and social experiments led by inquisitive guest artists and  lecturers intent on taking you off your computer and out into the  streets!     

This is not your average coding school. We encourage authentic  connection, both between the students themselves and with society at  large.     

Our goals are lofty. Above all, we'll learn from each other and  try to do good in the world, using art and technology in provocative and  fun ways! Wanna join us?