DIGITAL LOVE LANGUAGES ♡ falling failing feeling freeing

At the School for Poetic Computation

instructor melanie hoff
teaching assistants lee beckwith & alexa ann bonomo
duration 10 weeks online
time tues 6-9pm ET, thurs 2-5pm ET with 40 participants

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Overview

Digital Love Languages is an introductory computing class for reimagining the purpose of technology. This class is based on the premise that there is a world where all our software is made by people who love us and that we can contribute to building it.  Together we will build small, personal software with Python, Bash, HTML and Javascript for affirming one another across physical distance, while making and sharing digital space with each other. We will engage with code as a craft capable of expressing a full range of feeling and desire. We will look at the love letter as a form, from the quill to the sext. We will explore social and digital consent and ask: How are they interwoven?

In this class, we will learn about things as a proxy to learn about other things. Learn about digital coding to learn how we’re socially coded;. Learn about digital consent to learn about sexual consent. Learn about network protocols to learn about sharing. Learn about naming to learn about knowing. Learn about learning to learn about living.

Through a series of educational encounters, we will code poetic structures for digital touching and practice a re-examination of personal and networked computing. This is a call to action for expanding computation’s capacity for fostering interdependence and feeling for ourselves and those we love.

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Week 1 ◌

  • Orientation

Digital Love Languages [[now]] the conditions of a virus of body and mind – of lungs and skin, of contamination. How does the digital harm and how does it hold? What are your love languages? What are your digital love languages?

Week 2 ◌

  • Folder Poetry Part I

Week 3 ◌

  • Folder Poetry Part II
  • Mindy Seu’s experimental lecture on the history of sex and technology

Week 4 ◌

  • Codes Words Spells
  • Poetry with python

Week 5 ◌

  • Codes Words Spells II
  • Computational love letters & language

Week 6 ◌

  • Guest Teacher Sidney San Martín – Borders & Browsers

Week 7 ◌

  • Guest Teacher Sidney San Martín – Borders & Browsers II

Week 8 ◌

  • Consensual Hacking

Week 9 ◌

  • Consensual Hacking II

Week 10 ◌

Love Languages Salon

  • Sharing and decompressing
  • A celebration