SFPC The First Day

School for Poetic ComputationOpening Day

10.16.2013

Hi I’m Taeyoon.

I build circuits. Magnetic, electronic and poetic circuits

with Transistors, Capacitors and Resistors

building circuit is like building tiny cities

Sculpting with signals

Making memories

Adding and subtracting numbers

Input=OutputSignal=Circuit

software fiction and hardware noir

things get complex very soon(making shift register with D-type flip flops)

this is a good place to be.

July, 2008

Interactivos? Eyebeam

a bit of personal history leading up to sfpc

I organized Interactivos? with Zach Lieberman, Frederic Kirchner and Medialab Prado team at

Eyebeam.

spontaneous collaboration

and spending time together

September, 2008

OFLAB, Ars Electronica

We built a lab in an art festival

visitors could submit an idea in

the first floor

second floor was full of hackers realizing public’s dream over night.

Top floor hand lounge area to relax and enjoy art

a place for everyone

making something strange.

Doing something silly is good.

building community and friendship is more important than code.

Spring, 2009

Zach also invited me to teach at Design and Technology Department, Parsons School of Design with him.

For few years, I organized free classes with The Public School New York,

making art and becoming inspired by Occupy movement to practice activism in daily life.

There are many constraints teaching in institutions. What is the school we would like to see?

Student debt, unfair access to education and technology, and commoditization of social practice in art...

April 12nd, 2013 Zach announced sfpc!

April 17th, 2013

Kitchen Table Coders, Bushwick

and we started having meetings.

June 17th, 2013

We called for student on the Internet.

July 5th, 2013

Eyeo Festival, MN

Zach’s Keynote at

Some drawings I made for the talk but were not used.

July 21st, 2013

July 21st, 2013

Amit Amit Jen Zach Taeyoon

August 11th, 2013

Teachers meeting

September 7th, 2013

Cleaning our space at 33 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn NY

September 7th, 2013

Thank you our friends!

The First class of sfpc Fall, 2013