We’re excited to announce the second class of students of Code Societies Winter 2019, a 3-week session, and welcome them into our community. This session will cover how different platforms and processes structure social organization and reinforce existing systems of power.
This session will be taught by Allison Parrish, American Artist, Fluct(Sigrid Lauren & Monica Mirabile), Everest Pipkin, Ingrid Burrington, Taeyoon Choi, Nora Khan, Dan Taeyoung, Melanie Hoff, and the artist collective BuFu The syllabus for their classes can be found here.
Code Societies is organized by Melanie Hoff, with teaching assistance from Nabil Hassein and Ying Quan Tan and session advisor Taeyoon Choi.
Here is a little bit about our students below. You can meet them in person at our final showcase on January 26th. Stay tuned on Twitter for announcements, or sign up for our newsletter for updates.
Emily Saltz
Emily is an interaction designer and researcher currently at Bloomberg LP. Before that, she studied linguistics and worked as a content strategist for a speech recognition platform for podcasts and radio, Pop Up Archive. She thinks a lot about the politics of natural language technologies and how to make technology infrastructure humane and accessible.
@saltzshaker | Github | saltzshaker
AC Gillette
AC is a writer, artist and software developer living in Oakland, California. When they’re not helping turn biological bits into human usable interfaces, they enjoy writing poetry and learning how to generate new and novel forms.
emma rae norton
emma “doodybrains” rae norton is a programmer and artist researching what the internet looks like. she is currently a graduate student at nyu’s itp and has a life goal of getting all of her friends off facebook.
Carlos Alfonzo
Carlos Alfonzo is an artist and designer based in Brooklyn. His personal practice is led by an interest in wordless expressions of emotional personhood as well as the absurd. Through seemingly obtuse juxtapositions, his work seeks to interrogate the difference in derived narratives between artist and viewer.
Ingrid Lange
Ingrid Lange is a designer and researcher based in Cambridge, MA. She’s interested in how humans and algorithms learn (together and independently), as well as the ethics and implications of AI.
Jacob Liechty
Jacob is a game designer and curriculum researcher based in the United States. He hopes for a sustainable equilibrium between technological incentives and creative communities, and believes the means to arrive home are at hand.
Songqiao “Sonny” Li
Sonny Li is a developer / polyglot based in Brooklyn, NY. A former sadboy, having taught the classroom and interacted with younger minds, he became more optimistic about the future and vowed to make an impact in the TechEd space. He is currently leveling up the curriculum at Codecademy.
@sonnynomnom | Github | sonnynomnom
Matt O’Hagan
Heyo! I studied computer science and am currently a designer at Plaid out in San Francisco. I’m interested in and would love to chat about any of the following; used book stores and the aesthetic value of books, creative research, risograph printing, zines, archiving and the web, typewriter art, digital proximity and shared context, generative art, community building, online artifacts, bridging the gap between art in galleries and art in our everyday life, online publications, or nostalgia.
@micdropmatt | Github | mattohagan
Deni Chen
Deni is a social policy researcher and statistical programmer. She is interested in the social implications of digital technology, privacy, research and policy.
Tushar Goyal
Financial consultant turned creative coder who’s interested in exploring visual art and music through a computational lens.
Nicole Cheng
They are an artist currently exploring the relationship of cyborg bodies to fragmented landscapes through placemaking and objects. Join them in building resilience in this climate catastrophe.
Karin
Karin run the global developer marketing for Google’s augmented and virtual reality products and is based in Brooklyn, NY. Before that role she led the marketing for Firebase, Google’s mobile development platform, for two years and before that she has been leading Google’s brand in Israel, where she’s originally from. Except work, Karin like to paint, listen to podcasts and curious about people’s interaction & loneliness.
Iris Qu
User experience engineer working at the junction of geopolitics and tech, finding dynamic representations for complex problems
Jarret Bryan
Jarret Bryan is an NYC based Web Developer and Technologist. He graduated from Brown University in 2014 with a degree in Science & Technology Studies. He’s particularly interested in exploring the ways that technology informs and transforms our everyday.
Yasmeen Khaja
Yasmeen is from Kuwait, and will never stop learning.
Nadja Oertelt
Nadja Oertelt is a cofounder of the science publication Massive and is a media producer in scientific, documentary and quantitative spaces. She has a background in neuroscience and tries to create scientific agency as part of her multi-platform projects. She lives and works in NYC.
Victoria Campbell
Victoria Campbell is an artist, researcher, and playwright invested in ideology as a medium.
Mimi Doan
Student/Software Engineer/Cyborg interested in non-canonical futures.
To apply to an upcoming session Code Paper Scissors, Monday February 4th — Sunday February 17th, 201 9please check http://sfpc.io/codepaper
