Programs

The School for Poetic Computation is changing. This summer, we are making a temporary space together in a COCOON. We invite you into our collective studies as we work towards an experimental curriculum that can grow and transform over time. We will learn to unlearn with others in order to change the conditions of learning itself. We are making new schooling formations that facilitate the oscillation between teacher and student. Not yet flying, we invite you to wrap yourselves in the warm, gooey muck of becoming in the shedding over and over again.

What does this chrysalis body space do for us as learners? What can it help us unlearn? What protection does it give? What vulnerability does it keep? And, if we're faithful to the image of the COCOON, what is it we're surfacing around ourselves? Are we in the COCOON together? Do we each make our own after we depart?

COCOON is organized by Zainab Aliyu ('Zai'), Todd Anderson, Neta Bomani, Emma Rae Bruml, Melanie Hoff, Galen Macdonald, American Artist, Luke Demarest, Celine Wong Katzman, Natalie Freed, Nabil Hassein, Zach Lieberman, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Jie Qi, and Chang Yuchen.

Our 119 summer participants joined us in exploring the history and poetics of math, critical approaches to biometric surveillance, the craft of reading and writing, being loving and loved online and the augmenting of reality.

Programs

Sundays, July 11th to August 8th (5 classes) 4 to 7pm ET · Online (Zoom) · $750

AncestryandMe by American Artist and Zainab Aliyu

Tuesdays July 13 to August 10 (5 classes) 1 to 4pm ET · Online (Zoom) · $750

Getting Situated in Augmented Reality by Zach Lieberman and Edgardo Avilés-López

Wednesdays, July 21 to August 18 (5 classes) 6:30pm to 9:30pm ET · Online (Zoom) · $750

Learning to Love Mathematics: History, Theory, Practice, Poetics by Nabil Hassein and Sean Catangui

Thursdays July 29th to August 26th (5 classes) 6pm to 9pm ET · In Person @Prime Produce NYC · $750

Digital Love Languages: Sensory Commons by Melanie Hoff and Olivia McKayla Ross

Wednesdays and Fridays, July 28 to August 11, 2021 (5 workshops) 2 to 5pm EST · Online (Zoom) · $750

Reading, writing & compiling by Neta Bomani, Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Jie Qi, Natalie Freed, Chang Yuchen

This website is inspired by the cyclical transformation of silk worm cocoons and the silk blankets of tent caterpillars collectively secreting.
It was designed, developed and is maintained by Zainab Aliyu and Todd Anderson, with the support of Emma Rae Bruml, Melanie Hoff, Galen Macdonald and Neta Bomani. Cocoon brainstorming and image sources can be found here.
Our website is fully keyboard accessible for non-mouse users. Read about our organization's recent history here. Learn more about scholarships here.

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