Ikebana (生け花) flower arrangement rest-shop is a gentle, hands-on experience in Japanese flower arranging, guided by mindfulness and intentionality. You’ll take home your own Ikebana flower arrangement, along with a flower frog (kenzan).

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We’ll walk through the core building blocks called Operators, where we will focus on the ones used to handle images and video (aka TOPs). After the introduction, there is time to experiment and begin your own small project. You’re welcome to bring images or video to play with, but it’s not required. Prior coding experience can be helpful, but it’s not required — just bring your own laptop with TouchDesigner installed (free for non-commercial use).

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The process culminated in a collective work, Enter the Cloud — a shared dystopian exploration of how the digital landscapes of the future are simultaneously inspiring, seducing and extractive, and how we as humans can navigate them with awareness and responsibility.

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This is a separatist coding club for people who fall somewhere on the queer spectrum, in order to create a social space different from what you might find at work or at school. No level of coding skills required, newbies very welcome! But please note that the organizers are not facilitating a coding class. Everyone is bringing their own projects. Questions, helping each other and chit chat is encouraged. Drop by for an hour or the whole day. We will provide snacks, bring your own laptop.

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