This document summarizes the history and founding of the School for Poetic Computation by Taeyoon. It describes organizing various workshops starting in 2008 on building circuits, software, and hardware. Taeyoon then began teaching at Parsons School of Design in 2009 and with The Public School NYC, focusing on art, activism, and constraints of institutional education. Taeyoon and Zach Lieberman then started meeting in 2013 to plan the School for Poetic Computation, calling for students that July and holding their first class in Fall 2013.

1. School for Poetic Computation
Opening Day
10.16.2013

2. Hi I’m Taeyoon.

3. I build circuits.
Magnetic, electronic and poetic circuits

4. with Transistors, Capacitors and Resistors

5. building circuit is like building tiny cities

6. Sculpting with signals

7. Making memories

8. Adding and subtracting numbers

9. software fiction and hardware noir
Input=Output
Signal=Circuit

10. things get complex very soon
(making shift register with D-type flip flops)

11. this is a good place to be.

12. July, 2008
Interactivos? Eyebeam
a bit of personal history leading up to sfpc

13. I organized Interactivos? with Zach Lieberman,
Frederic Kirchner and Medialab Prado team at
Eyebeam.

14. spontaneous collaboration

15. and spending time together

16. September, 2008
OFLAB, Ars Electronica

17. We built a lab
in an art festival
visitors could
submit an idea in
the first floor

18. second floor was full of hackers realizing public’s
dream over night.

19. Top floor hand lounge area to relax and enjoy art

20. a place for everyone

21. making something strange.

22. Doing something silly is good.

23. building community and friendship
is more important than code.

24. Spring, 2009
Zach also invited me to teach at Design and Technology
Department, Parsons School of Design with him.

25. For few years, I organized free classes
with The Public School New York,
making art and becoming inspired by Occupy movement
to practice activism in daily life.

26. Student debt, unfair access to education and technology, and
commoditization of social practice in art...
There are many constraints teaching in institutions.
What is the school we would like to see?

27. April 12nd, 2013
Zach announced sfpc!

28. April 17th, 2013
Kitchen Table Coders, Bushwick
and we started having meetings.

29. June 17th, 2013
We called for student on the Internet.

30. July 5th, 2013
Zach’s Keynote at
Eyeo Festival, MN

31. Some drawings I made for the talk but were not used.

35. July 21st, 2013

36. July 21st, 2013
Amit
Jen
Zach
Taeyoon

37. August 11th, 2013
Teachers meeting

38. September 7th, 2013
Cleaning our space at 33 Flatbush Ave,
Brooklyn NY

39. September 7th, 2013
Thank you our friends!

40. The First class of sfpc
Fall, 2013