Workshops

Learn the basics of how you can incorporate biology into your practice. We'll be looking into organism design, prototyping, and more!

An Introduction to developing interactive augmented realty filters in Spark AR

Learn the basics of FDM and MSLA 3D printing and processing.

Buttons and buzzers, microphones and motors: connect some common (and some uncommon!) inputs and outputs to interact in the real world ✨

Learn how to transform physical objects into digital replicas!

Learn the ins and outs of Blockchain Technology and NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens).

Join Casey Koyczan for a virtual reality workshop as he takes participants through the basics of creating in Tilt Brush.

Using a tarot-inspired format to map your own journey to tech tools that match your values, and to strategize your next steps as an individual or as a group.

Discuss and learn how to create and share your own contra-normative AR cosmetics look in an approachable hands-on workshop.

Explore various ways of sending data between Ableton Live and TouchDesigner with Karl Skene! The techniques learned can be used for live performance, music videos, and interactive a/v installations.

Quickly and easily build your own DJ edits and remixes using Serato Studio, a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) developed for DJs.

Take a crash course in Ableton with Toronto-based producer, DJ, pianist, and radio host Ciel!

Find out all the different ways you can utilize and design performance work for online spaces, including Zoom, Instagram Live, and YouTube!

Learn to share your message through the interconnected mediums of radio, live streaming and podcasting in this Audacity-based workshop with DJ, curator and radio host Roshanie!

Part feminist theory, part artist talk, and part technical workshop—this session with Cat Haines explores how we can use Minecraft resource packs to transform our social and material realities to create new bodily possibilities.

Taking seriously the idea of server as “place”, Ender Gallery curators Cat Bluemke, Jonathan Carroll, and Sarah Friend tour the expansive procedurally generated world of Minecraft, moving from the digital, front-end biomes to the backend of the Minecraft server.

Learn the basics of how a facial recognition system works by using Python in Google Colaboratory! Discussions will consider digital surveillance and biometric data, as well as what might constitute a toolkit for public awareness and citizen resistance to facial recognition technologies.

Spekwork leads a session on figure and still life drawing techniques through the free platform VRChat, examining both form and substance through art historical and technologist perspectives.

How can maps guide us beyond the binary models of virtual/material, IRL/URL, and public/private? Taking an embodied queer approach to mapping, this two-part workshop will explore the sometimes incongruous (but always generative) relationships between digital mapping software, embodied place-making, and free form mapping methods like cognitive or community mapping. Participants will be introduced to Google MyMaps, Google Earth, and QGIS, in tandem with indoor/outdoor activities exploring physical space and grassroots data collection.

Explore how info-sharing platforms reflect community values and put these ideas into practice by creating an experimental wiki website!