Workshops

Upcoming Workshop

Tool Training: Laser Cutter

This hands-on training session will introduce members to the laser cutter available in the InterAccess studio.

Upcoming Workshop

sonic cartography: tracing the sounds of everyday life

For anyone curious about sound, field recording, or the city as a listening environment. No audio experience required.

Upcoming Workshop

Tool Training: Electronics

This hands-on training session will introduce members to the electronics available in the InterAccess studio.

Upcoming Workshop

Digital Mirrors: Creating Interactive Projections for Artists and Dancers

For artists looking to design motion-interactive projections and explore inter-arts collaboration with dancers.

Upcoming Workshop

Tool Training: CNC Router

This hands-on training session will introduce members to the CNC router available in the InterAccess studio.

Upcoming Workshop

Tool Training: Mill & Lathe

This hands-on training session will introduce members to the milling machine and lathe available in the InterAccess studio.

Upcoming Workshop

Self As Dataset: Animating the Body with Machine Learning

For artists interested in AI and animation who want more authorship and control over their data than browser-based tools allow, without needing high-performance GPU systems or advanced technical background.

Past Workshops

VF26 | Buzz Bites

Play with experimental connection techniques and work-in-progress breakout boards for use with pancake-style vibrating motors. Both hard and soft circuit approaches will be introduced – soldering, sewing, and working with conductive fabric tape.

VF26 | unraveling the algorithm

Join in collective finger-weaving to unravel the computer through its textile origins. As we fuss and fumble with our creations, we will reflect on their design, the algorithms around us, and the power we have to change them.

VF26 | All You Can Seal: Making Inflatables with a 3D Printer

Repurpose a Bambu FDM printer to produce custom-shaped inflatable structures without additional equipment or hardware modification.

3D Scanning: Creating Assets for Storytelling & Community

A spotlight on the Sari-Sari Xchange Assetory, a storytelling-led virtual asset library prototype created with and for the Asian diaspora.

Intro to Electronics for Artists (Weekend Intensive)

Back by popular demand! Learn the basics of electricity and build simple digital circuits with CMOS chips, transistors and LEDs.

Play in Taiji: Making and Playing Daoist Cosmos Cyborgs

Learn Zhan Zhuang (standing meditation), engage in body-mapping exercises, and design and play meditative games.

Synthetic Worlds: Making Images & Video with Generative AI

Demystify generative AI by learning how image and video models actually work, then use them to create your own visual worlds.

Tool Training: Mill & Lathe

This hands-on training session will introduce members to the milling machine and lathe available in the InterAccess studio.

"Inside-in": Biosensor Butoh

"Inside-In": Biosensor Butoh is an eco/cyber-feminist somatic movement journey.

Reactive Space: Interactive Installations with TouchDesigner

Learn to build interactive art installations using TouchDesigner, the industry-standard visual programming platform for real-time media.

Tool Training: 3D Printing (SLA)

This hands-on training session will introduce members to the MSLA (Resin) 3D Printing process available in the InterAccess studio.

Internet Canvas: Creative Coding with the Browser

Code your own net art using the web as both medium and canvas.

Tool Training: 3D Printing (FDM)

This hands-on training session will introduce members to the FDM 3D Printing processes available in the InterAccess studio.

Tool Training: CNC Router

This hands-on training session will introduce members to the CNC router available in the InterAccess studio.

Tool Training: Laser Cutter

This hands-on training session will introduce members to the laser cutter available in the InterAccess studio.

Tool Introduction: Getting to Know Our New Ceramic 3D Printer

This hands-on introductory session will invite members to get to know the new Eazao Zero Clay Printer available in the InterAccess studio.

Creepy Creatures: Build a Face Tracking Robot

Learn the basics of face tracking, feedback loops, and mechanical actuation using MediaPipe and Arduino to build a mini sculpture that turns to follow you.

Weaving With Wires: Weaving and Embroidery Techniques within Digital Practices

Learn weaving basics and explore how to work textile approaches into new media practices, with the studio table loom and individual hand-held looms.

More-than-Human Resonance: Interactive Bio-Data Sonification

Join artist Tosca Terán to experience biodata streaming through modular synthesizers from plants and fungal mycelium, to create a more-than-human derived soundscape.

Tool Training: Electronics

This hands-on training session will introduce members to the electronics available in the InterAccess studio.