- Two-Week Session, Monday July 10th - Saturday July 22nd
- @ SFPC, 155 Bank street, West Village, NYC
- 7pm - 9:30pm, Evening Classes
SFPC's Summer Intensive: Code Narratives will explore the practice of generative writing using Python. We will start by collecting source texts as the fuel for our generators, and learn how to parse them for the parts we want most using language processing techniques. Once we have our source material, we will experiment with our writing machines in a variety of narrative forms like screenplays, twitter bots, and multimedia works. Students will create several small generative text projects over the course of the session and finish with a prototype of something larger, with opportunities to show work to the larger SFPC community toward the end. No coding experience required, all levels welcome.
- Experimental Creative Writing with Natural Language Processing // Allison Parrish // Syllabus
- Anything Unique Is at Risk of Vanishing // Alexander Provan // Syllabus
- Predictive Text Machines // Ross Goodwin // Syllabus
- Generating with Text: Text as Input // Hannah Davis // Syllabus
- Allison Parrish (3 Classes) - procedural writer, programmer, Faculty at NYU ITP, creator of countless text-based projects including The Ephemerides, Our Arrival and the word game Rewordable
- Todd Anderson (Lead Organizer, On-Site Support) - digital poet and web artist, author of Hotwriting, a collection of playable digital poems
- Ross Goodwin (2 Classes)- creator of the AI screenwriter of Sunspring and It's No Game
- Alexander Provan (1 Class) - writer/artist/publisher, editor of Triple Canopy
- Hannah Davis (1 Class) - programmer/data scientist/musician, creator of Transprose, a literature-to-music translation project
- Zach Lieberman (Lecture) - SFPC co-founder, OpenFrameworks co-creator
- Taeyoon Choi (1 Class) - SFPC co-founder, artist
- More teachers and speakers to be announced!
Classes are held in the evenings Monday-Friday from 7-9:30pm and the session will culminate in a party on the afternoon of Saturday July 22nd, where students can invite their friends and present their favorite generative projects.
Students will have full access to the space for the two weeks of the session to work on projects between classes and mentors wil be readily available for technical, conceptual, and artistic guidance. Read our Participate page for more information.
- Come to all classes and thoughtfully engage with your classmates and teachers.
- We are looking for autodidacts from all backgrounds who are curious, generous and open.
- We welcome students with a broad array of technical experiences–no coding experience is required, but a basic comfort level with technology is preferred.
- B.Y.O.Laptop (Mac / PC / Linux)
We are located in 155 Bank street, in the courtyard of the Westbeth Artists Community in the West Village, New York City.
Feel free to contact lead organizer Todd Anderson (toddwords@gmail.com) with any questions about the Code Narratives session, or info@sfpc.io for any general questions about the school.