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Author: melaniehoff

digitallove-spring2020.md

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-![Colorful and busy graphic of a heart. Patterns of broadcasting signal test, hand written letters, emoji of e-mails and love letters.](/static/img/codesocieties/digital-love-languages-6-withnames-grey.png)
+![](/static/img/codesocieties/digital-love-languages-6-withnames-grey.png)
 
 # Digital Love Languages: Codes of Affirmation
 
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 [Application](https://airtable.com/shr2q0neXIgi478Wa) is now open until June 1st, 2020
 
-Learn the fundamentals of Python and JavaScript, natural language processing, web and terminal in order to change your relationship with computers. Create a space for poetry, love letters and community by programming with codes of affirmation. 10 Weeks class for beginners at SFPC by Melanie Hoff
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 As our daily activities and closest relationships become increasingly bound up with corporate systems of surveillance and exploitation, let’s explore and cultivate code as a love language that can be gentle, healing, and intimate. How do we want to live in a post COVID-19 world, and what role do we want technology to play? Digital Love Languages: Codes of Affirmation is a class about building poetic tools for online communion through a re-introduction to computers. This class is also a call to action for expanding computation’s capacity for fostering interdependence and emotive expression.  
 
 Together we will build small and personal software for affirming one another across physical distance. Technology will be unpacked as a social process, not only a logic or material, regarding code as a craft and medium capable of expressing the full range of feeling and desire.
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 Let's gather for the creation of placemaking on the internet where sweetness and solidarity are valued and supported.
 
-![Photo of Melanie Hoff in YCAM, Japan smiling with students.](/static/img/codesocieties/melanie-teaching.jpeg)
-Photo: Naoki Takehisa. Courtesy of Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]
+![](/static/img/codesocieties/melanie-teaching.jpeg)
 
 # What will students learn?
 
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 [Melanie Hoff](https://melanie-hoff.com/) is an artist and educator examining the role technology plays in social organization and the reinforcing of hegemonic structures. Their work uncovers and re-scripts coded conventions of norms, interfaces, and sex, through software, installation, and new choreographies of exchange. They are a co-founder of Soft Surplus, (a collective space for making and learning near each other), the Cybernetics Library (an art and research collective offering resources for study and critique of socio-technological systems). They teach at NYU IDM, RISD, and the School for Poetic Computation, where they organize [Code Societies](http://sfpc.io/code-societies), a learning initiative about the social histories of technology and the expressive capacity of coding with care. They have presented their work internationally in spaces like the Tate Exchange London, the New Museum, the Queens Museum, The Internet Archive, Pioneer Works, and elsewhere.
 
-TA: TBD
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+TA: [Max Fowler](http://mfowler.info) is an artist and programmer living in Berlin. Their new media work explores the politics of connectivity and queering feed algorithms. They are currently a member of >top lab, and are one of the stewards of Sari-Sari, a community kitchen and art space. They are interested in helping to grow a collaborative network of healing community spaces, and in providing technical support for artists and activists
 
 This class is organized by Taeyoon Choi of the School for Poetic Computation.
 
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 This class is intended for beginners without much experience in coding. If you have experience with coding, we recommend other classes offered at SFPC.
 
-If you have questions about the class, please write [email protected] and for administrative questions, please write dll@sfpc.io.  
+If you have questions about the class, please write [email protected] and for administrative questions, please write info@sfpc.io.  
 
 
 [Application](https://airtable.com/shr2q0neXIgi478Wa) is now open until June 1st, 2020
 
 
-![A wide field of emojis in playful arrangement created in terminal](/static/img/codesocieties/terminal.png)
+![](/static/img/codesocieties/terminal.png)