UAL:Creative Computing Institute function setup () {define p5.js} Workshop

The community workshop welcomes participation and contribution from artists, researchers, educators, hobbyists, and software developers who are actively engaged with p5.js. This workshop is an opportunity to engage in a collaborative discussion centered around redefining p5.js.

function setup() { define p5.js } aims to foster a dialogue about the current state of open-source projects and examine the role of contributors in shaping these projects. How can we contribute to the future of open-source projects through collective action, and how do we embody community values in FLOSS projects? Using these questions as the framework, the workshop will serve as the space and starting point for a critical dialogue.

As part of the overall project to enhance existing p5.js documentation organization and accessibility, this workshop will focus on p5.js and facilitate a discussion on p5.js's role in creative arts, education, and community engagement. Through participatory approaches, the workshop aims to initiate a discourse to understand the impact of p5.js on the community. By deconstructing existing definitions and focuses, as well as the project's community statement, the goal is to collectively re-create definition(s) for p5.js and make substantive contributions towards shaping the future of the community.

Anybody is welcome but a beginner-level experience with p5.js is encouraged.

Places for the workshop is limited to 15 spaces.Participants, will receive a small gratuity for their time and participation in the form of a gift-card.

14:00 - Welcome and Workshop Introduction

14:15 - Communities and p5.js

14:30 - Discussion: Significance of p5.js

15:00 - Group Activity: Exploring keywords

15:30 - Defining p5.js

16:30 - Follow-up discussion and wrap-up

This subproject is organised by Koundinya Dhulipalla and Winnie Soon, with the contribution of Yasmine Boudiaf and Jazmin Morris for the workshop facilitation. It is supported by p5.js, The Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) and UAL Creative Computing Institute.

Winnie Soon is a Hong Kong-born artist coder and researcher interested in the cultural implications of digital infrastructure that addresses wider power asymmetries, engaging with themes such as Free and Open Source Culture, Coding Otherwise, artistic/technical manuals, digital censorship and minor technology. With works appearing in museums, galleries, festivals, distributed networks, papers and alternative written forms, including co-authored books titled Boundary Images (2023), Fix My Code (2021), and Aesthetic Programming (2020). Winnie is the co-editor of the Software Studies Book Series (MIT Press), Co-PI of the research project Digital Activism and co-research lead, British Digital Art, British Art Network. They are Course Leader at the Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London, and also Associate Professor (on leave) at Aarhus University and visiting researcher at the Centre of the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI), London South Bank University.

www.siusoon.net

Jazmin Morris is a Creative Computing Artist and Educator based in London. Her personal practice and research explore representation and inclusivity within technology. She uses free and open-source tools to create digital experiences that highlight issues surrounding gender, race and power; focusing on the complexities of simulating culture and identity. Jazmin is a socially engaged artist, often collaborating with communities to provide workshops and tutorials, including Tech Yard - a community initiative that she founded to spread creative computing knowledge. Jazmin is a lecturer at UAL Creative Computing Institute and the Lead Computation Tutor on the Graphic Communication Design course at Central Saint Martins. She still fantasises over web.1 and Super Mario 64.

https://linktr.ee/jmmorris

Yasmine Boudiaf is an Algerian creative technologist and researcher based in London and was recognised as one of '100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2022'. Her projects interrogate the impact of new technologies on cultural life - exploring cultural (dis)connections across time and geography using AI and anti-colonial methodologies

https://yasmine-boudiaf.com/

Koundinya Dhulipalla is a Telugu artist and technologist based in London. They use tool-building as a method to explore computational poetics and the cultural impact of contemporary software systems. They are an associate lecturer at UAL Creative Computing Institute, and a visiting lecturer at University of Roehampton.

https://koundinya.website/

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts,, 5th Floor Creative Computing Institute, London, United Kingdom