artwork
Big Tuna
Kay Bromley, Maddy Chang, Iris Fung, Mason, Sophia + more
bioyarn handbag
a handbag made from bioyarn - a sustainable algae based alternative to traditional textile production involving plastics
Kanika Rao
blind contour
i blind countour drew people and things i did throughout this week
JLEE
coax
A lamp that only lights up when properly persuaded.
liz and bansini
confess for a confession
confess something to the system and the system will gift you a confession from a camper
Kanika Rao
Constellation Station
create your own constellations and write their myths or stories!
Sophia Diggs-Galligan, Marty, Heather Browning, Steven Keyes
Ctrl Alt Del
ai musings on death
Nnenne Ogbonnaya, Sitoë Thiam
Etched Metal
These metal pieces were created using DIY saltwater etching.
Charles Brandt
Everything TV™
Marty Boren, Danielle Baskin, Taylor Tabb, Kelly Neuner, Sophia Qin, Erin Cole, Jamie Brew, Ash Herr, JLEE, Bansini, Mason, et al
Fish Scales
Beaded Fish Meets Interactive Instrument
Kaylee Jung
Flop Mart
a mart of failed pop mart products
bansini, amanda, diane, charlie, connie ye, daniel, + more
~ florilegium ~
a garden of visuals and verses
Amina Green, Kelly Neuner, Jesse Wallace, Isa Pleno, chris giang, Sitoë Thiam, Nnenne Ogbonnaya, Valentina 廖
fonk
*fonk* *fonk* *fonk*
Alex Fiel, Hannah Lienhard, Sofia Chen, Tess Rinaldo
Grayscale Palette
As someone with one data science class' worth of Python skills, I vibe coded a tool to extract a color palette from a black and white photo.
Heather Browning
Hand Soap
Taylor Tabb
haptic garden
touch the embedded bioplastic forms to activate layered tones — your interaction shapes a living soundscape within moss, and live/preserved flora
chris giang, kelly neuner, ireen jeang, amina green
help
let me out
Peregrine, JLee, Mason, Hannah, Tess, Amanda, Myko, Bansini, Alex, David, and everyone else I forgot
Kamishibai Theater: Sumo Mice
Kamishibai was a popular form of storytelling in post-war Japan.
Charles Brandt
Kolam: Beyond The Floor
This kolam bridges wall and floor, adding new dimensions (literally) to a traditional South Indian art form.
Roopa Ramanujam, Sunaya Shivakumar
lotus pod
this is the surface of a lotus pod
mona, tess
MATERIAL HORSE
galloping through the planes
isabel li and ivan zhao (main pocs) and collaborators anna zhang, iris fung, david ye, sunaya, kelly neuner, emily bei cheng, kaylee jung, kanika rao!
meme generator
generate a meme
Kanika Rao
NO HORSES ALLOWED
There are no horses allowed here, except service horses.
Jesse Wallace
no touching
the sound of two hands clapping
Ash Herr, Charlie Stigler
orange no. 47
scribble out your frustration with these politican-shaped crayons
Hannah Lienhard, Alex Fiel, Bansini Doshi, Leia Chang
Papercraft
These animals were made with kirigami or cut paper; the sister art to origami. Washi ningyo or paper dolls were popular in pre-industrial Japan. Older sisters would often make them for their younger siblings.
Charles Brandt
Perception Paradox
You look at the clock to understand time — but you notice something's off ... is it the clock or you?
Ireen Jeang, Mackenzie Sharp
Random House Merch
Surprise merch designed for random houses, to make people say ".... huh??"
Daniel Knopf, Danielle Egan, Mackenzie Sharp, Bansini Doshi, Kay Bromley
S(h)ubspace
A composite portrait of every Shub willing to attend a party for Shubs.
Shubha Jagannatha
Save Our Lower Right Inner
The International Society for Lower Right Inner Pant Leg Safety (ISLRIPLS) is an organization devoted to increasing the safety and wellbeing of lower right inner pant legs the world over. For the Summer 2025 issue of the Journal of the ISLRIPLS, we held an interdisciplinary symposium of experts in the field of stopping bike gears from eating pant legs, seeking to address a problem commonly known as the Gear Attack Crisis. In total, we created 10 prototype mitigations for the crisis, which include design-based, materials-based, fashion-based and religious-based solutions. Each entry includes a title, technical description and marketing tagline designed to encourage mass adoption. We encourage you to explore the prototypes and preview the bright future of lower right inner pant leg safety!
Hanji Xu, Jamie Brew, Dave Fawler. Pants donner: Valentina, Dave, Taylor
Save Timmy!
Timmy has fallen into the well!
Steven Keyes
Slide Whistle Drone
an acoustic drone instrument, move the sliders slowly to find palatable or spicy harmonies
Chris Guichet
Stained glass pixels
An interactive animated stained glass panel that explores the tension between technology, surveillance, and religion
Sophia Qin (MAIN POC); Mave Mendoza, Anna Zhang (CODE); Noah Aust (ANIMATION); Charles Brandt, Myko Huff, Erin Cole, Steven Keyes, Maya Stack, Dave Fowler (FABRICATION); Tyler Stoner (SOUND).
Sugar Coat
For when you need to sugar coat yourself, not just your words.
Maya Stack
tap dis tree
tap a tree. add a tree. steal a tree. lead someone on a scavenger hunt! share or exchange your favorite spot in SF.
Emily Bei Cheng, David Ye, Connie Liu
Team Dream
who wants to dream alone?
The Dream Team Team™: Alex Kauffmann, Anna Brewer, Athena Leong, Connie Ye, Lucas Gelfond
you can rest here
pojagi patchwork floor cushions to recharge and engage your surroundings
Sitoë Thiam
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workshops
| Workshop Title | Description | Instructor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Shitposting IRL | Learn how to make your printer other people's problem! We'll design flyers using marketing best practices to draw attention to silly things, then we will sprinkle these flyers throughout the streets of San Francisco. | Danielle Egan |
| Intro to Infrared Communication | We'll learn how to use an Arduino to send digital signals wirelessly across a room using infrared light. We'll play with some devices that use this technology (from TV remotes to laser tag), and have some open ended tinkering time for people to build their own creations. | Marty Boren |
| DIY Bioplastic and Bioresin | Create your own eco-friendly plastic for art, accessories, and more using ingredients from the grocery store! | Kelly Neuner |
| Papier-Mache Lantern Making | We'll be making simple paper lanterns using string, sticks, colored tissue paper, dried plants/flowers, and classic papier-mache techniques! You'll be able to hang your lantern or turn it into a table lamp when finished. Weird shapes encouraged if you are good (or bad) at making balloon animals. | Tess Rinaldo |
| Metal Etching by Hand | Let's make some art that's totally metal! In this workshop we will etch unique designs into metal belt buckles and business card holders. After this workshop, you will be able to create your own custom art by using inexpensive tools that can be found at a dollar store. | Charles Brandt |
| Poetic Comics & Interactive Publishing! | I've been making short interactive websites and abstract comic zines that interplay word and image to evoke emotion for a while. I want to give a workshop behind the theory of poetic comics and sequential image making, with different strategies broken down and then how that translates in print and media forms. At the end of the workshop we'll have some time to make a mini poetic comic on either web (I will make a scaffold template) or paper and do a shareout! | Connie Liu |
| Lenticulars 101 | Self explanatory. Learn the software and get to make your own. | Mackenzie Sharp |
| Ink & Zest Tattooing | We'll learn more about how tattooing works with a little demo using just needles, and also a machine. Then we move to experiment with tattooing various citrus using the stick and poke method! | Sunaya Shivakumar |
| Running AI Models on Tiny Computers | We're going to learn how to put big models on little devices to give them voices, points of view, and artistic abilities. Plants that talk back to you, a typewriter that autocompletes, and a magic eight ball that predicts something different every time you consult it are all just a Raspberry Pi away! | Alex Kauffmann |
| Nonlinear Poetics: Painting with Text | memory, queerness, and knowledge are consumed and created in a nonlinear fashion. poetry, in itself, is an investigation in nonlinearity. however, whereas traditional poetry is obsessed with structure (and lack thereof), how do we push the medium of poetry to further interrogate ourselves as individuals and our lives? this will be a generative workshop, where we will read a selection of work at the edge of poetry, pulling samples from some of the following: dear memory - victoria chang ghost of - diana khoi nguyen the best we could do - c thi nguyen the arrival - shaun tan florence - annapurna studios citizen - caludia rankine ward toward - cindy jyoung ok travesty generator - lillian yvonne bertram someone took they tongues - douglas kearney debths - susan howe plans for sentences - renee gladman while this list is lengthy, it looks at poetics as a method of painting with text, image, and illustration. the piece, florence, moves outside this mode, as a potential extension of shaun tan’s work, to understand how a piece can be a poem without any words. to be queer, to remember, is to intrinsically interrogate one memory’s at an angle, and this workshop hopes to reckon with that through different mediums. there will be four selected pieces which will result in a 10 minute discussion, a 10 minute generative writing period after each, specifically using a method brought . there will be a 5 minute period between each section to split into breakout rooms to share with each other, if they so wish, or commune with others of like minded obsessions. at the end, there will be a broader group share for 15 minutes with a 5 min wrap up for the two hour period. | Ivan Zhao |
| Basics of Knotting and Tapestry | We're relearning those basic knots you were taught and promptly forgot as a kid. Then we're making art with them! Let's experiment with different materials and compositions to make mini macrame tapestries that don't look like they're straight out of a 70's home decor catalog (unless that's what you're going for) | Sitoë Thiam |
| Intro to Contemporary Stained Glass | Learn stained glass with me! We'll learn the copper foil method of stained glass and create beautiful artworks that shine in the light. We'll learn how to cut glass into shape, grind the glass, and solder the glass to create ornaments or panels (depending on the time). | Sophia Qin |
| Intro to Silicone Casting / Soft Robotics | We'll learn how to cast and mold silicone and try out some of our own 3D printed molds to see how form influences activation (pneumatics!). Come make robots with a "softer" side :) Note: will be messy. | Sofia Chen & Hannah Lienhard |
| Designing 3D-Printed Vermeil Jewelery | Tired of boring, basic Mejuri jewelry? Learn how to design your own custom rings! In this workshop, we’ll model investment-castable rings using OnShape, prototype them for form and fit with a 3D printer, and (optionally) send them out to be wax 3D-printed and investment-cast in gold-plated silver — all for around $50–$100. | Harrison Lin |
| Bioyarn: Making Yarn out of Organic Material | Join me in making Bioyarn or AlgiKnits. Bioyarn/AlgiKnits is sustainable textile innovation created from algae, or kelp, and is an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional fiber and textile materials. Bring a piece of clothing to rework using your Bio-yarn! | Kanika Rao |
| Bug Taxidermy | Participants will learn how to pin insect/arachnid specimens for display! There will also be live specimens on display! | Valentina Lyau |
| gnireenignE (Reverse Engineering) | Sometimes, the NEW thing you're designing needs to fit on an EXISTING thing. That's where you need 'Reverse Engineering'. We'll get an overview of some different tools (3D scanning, calipers, 2D scanning...) to measure existing objects, then create modifications and replacement parts. Fix mistakes in original designs, make upgrades and new interactions... | Alex Fiel |
| Animated Monsters! with Adobe Character Animator | Draw / sculpt monsters and use Adobe Character Animator and After Effects to bring them to life | Noah Aust |
| Ball Making! Hand-sew a Soccer Ball | Learn how to hand-sew your own soccer ball from scratch using a simple pattern and basic stitching techniques. No experience needed! | Maddy Chang |
| Touch Sensitive Plants | Learn how to turn your household plants into interactive touch sensors that control LED lights! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore capacitive sensors, microcontrollers, and physical computing techniques to transform your plants into an interactive device. Any level of coding and physical computing skills are welcome! Leave this workshop with your own touch sensitive plants! | Ireen Jeang |
| Let's Paint! Watercolors & Acrylics | Let's sit in a park, enjoy the sun and paint! I am happy to teach watercolors or acrylics. No experience necessary, just an appreciation for the sun and curiosity about painting. I'll also bring a small still-life setup, for those who prefer to paint indoor things while sitting outside. As a secret third option, you can bring an art print you like (or a picture of it) and we can make a miniature copy of it ;-) | Connie Ye |
| Dataset Potluck | Bring a "dataset" - a collection of many items/events/entities of the same kind represented digitally or physically. We'll use techniques from data science and NLP to index the data and then use this miniature archive to make compositions like collages, ransom notes and karaoke song parodies. | Jamie Brew |
| Analog Synthesizers | Well dip our toes into the world of analog (musical) synthesizers. First we’ll talk about how op amps work, then use op amps to design a circuit that makes white noise. Then we’ll also make low pass and high pass filters to tame the white noise. We’ll solder the circuits together and walk away with our own filtered white noise machines. | Chris Guichet |
| Sew Your Own Faraday Bag | Learn how to construct a sling bag that puts your devices on do not disturb mode — analog fashion. You’ll learn basic sewing skills and construct your own Faraday bag lined with signal-blocking fabric. Details/skills: - bag design (sewing template provided) - basic sewing (hand or machine) - signal blocking 101 | Tiffany Yau |
| 8bit✰Besties Digital Poems | Utilizing digital poem making, impressive camera work and Unity assets we'll chronicle our lives in a 2d style game and with consent trade our memories with our friends like we did with Pokémon Play It CD-ROMs ! | Nnenne Ogbonnaya |
| Laser Cutting Acrylic Earrings | Intro to using the CO2 laser cutter at MadSci (but also obvi this is dependent on if it is working and if I can get some time ahead of fidget camp to test it) by making your own pair of acrylic laser cut earrings. Learn how to prepare a file and use the laser cutter for acrylic cutting. | Iris Fung |
| Deep Dive Into Fun Old Tech | I started to collecting a bunch of old funky electronics (including an old working machintosh), can make a share of it all and we should all play with it and do something with it! Meet at front door, then we'll walk to mosaic. | Liz Dorman |
| Fun with Electric Shocks | Learn how to add surprising but harmless electric shocks to your projects, using teeny tiny high voltage (low current) generators. Maybe your next video game gives electric shocks when you get hit in the game. Maybe you use it to train yourself to floss more often. The ideas are unlimited once give in to the voltage. | Ian Charnas |
| Prototyping Games in TouchDesigner | Use irl inputs (ex: break-beams, microphones, water detection sensors) and outputs (ex: motors, audio, lights) integrated with TouchDesigner to create immersive games using Arduinos! We will experiment with the data from our sensors and explore the creative ways they can be used as controllers in our games! | Mave Mendoza |
| Kink Engineering Essentials 101 or Lasers and Leather 202 | Come explore the exciting world of custom kink creations! This workshop introduces you to 3D printing, programming, and crafting specifically for kink. We’ll cover key safety practices, take a look at the basics of teledildonic toys, and wrap with a Q&A to tackle all your curious and kinky questions. Whether you’re a maker, a masochist (If you’ve done art builds, you’re both, sorry I don't make the rules), or just kink-curious, you’ll walk away with inspiration and know-how. Note: This workshop is ages 18+. Lasers and Leather 202: Electric MooMoo Boogaloo Last year, we only etched the surface of the laser and leather magic. This time, we’re giving it the spotlight it deserves! In this standalone workshop, you’ll learn the basics of leatherworking with lasers—from materials, burnishing, sewing, to engraving and cutting. Explore all the cool things you can do when you laser pewpew moomoo boogaloo! And if that wasn’t exciting enough, one lucky attendee is going home with their own laser engraver! | Diane Rodriguez |
| Leaf-Skeleton Bookmarks | Make bookmarks from leaf skeleton by finding fresh leaves from our environment and melting away fleshy bits and retain the stem bits and dye them with beautiful colors. | Mingzhu He (Ming) |
| Architectural Sketching | Practice techniques of architectural sketching, a great tool for bringing ideas forth from your mind, through your hand, and out into the real world. Learn tips and tricks for sketching in perspective and axonometric views, creating visual hierarchy, and crafting a good composition. Bring a pen or two, a sketchbook and come do some real-world observational sketching. | Kay Bromley |
| Intro to Circuit Design | Design a circuit board in minutes! In this workshop, we'll learn how circuit boards are made and how to design them using KiCad. Please install KiCad 9 on your own laptop. | Steven Keyes |
| Kolam for Everyone! | Come play with pattern, color, and texture in this joyful remix of the traditional South Indian art of Kolam. Using colored sand, rice, chalk, and other playful materials, we’ll create vibrant—and even mathematical—designs on paper or fabric. No experience needed, just a love for color, precision, and a willingness to get a little messy. | Roopa Ramanujam |
| Audio Artifacts with Cassettes | Get hands-on the magic of recording audio on tape, learn some history, and then bridge the gap to modern day recording tools. Use a vintage-restored cassette walkman to record your sonic creation. (I've already put this experiment into action and found it cathartic for people). | Sarah Bush |
| Creating Activist Art for Social Media | I'll share how I go about creating activist art for Instagram that provides information, inspires action, and causes a stir. Then, we'll each work on making a post about a social issue that matters to us. | Taylor Steinbeck |
| Making a Vtuber Out of Any 2D Image | have u ever wanted to become an anime girl? or other 2D image? in a sort of uncanny valley kind of way? learn how to bring any 2D image to life with your face... (this is a workshop on how to rig 2D images for face-tracking animation using Live2D-- attached a sample i did with the GNU Linux GNU head mascot) | Mona Wang |
| Make Your Own Escape Room | In this workshop, we’re going to lock some unsuspecting friends in a room and see if they can figure out how to escape. We might also design some cool puzzles, silly clues, and dramatic lore to go along with it... but mostly, it’s about the locking-people-in-a-room thing. | Bansini Doshi |
| EL Wire Jacket Lab | Come make a glowing/flashing jacket with EL wire! We'll stitch flexible light-up effects onto clothing (hit up Goodwill beforehand to start your fit). https://alexzirbel.notion.site/EL-wire-workshop-1c9afcd8afe480d2a6a7f37b5ba717c8?pvs=74 | Alex Zirbel |
| Woodworking 101 + Cutting-Board Making | We cut some boards and learn the basics in woodworking while making a cutting board! An easy enough one day project giving a great introduction to the basics of woodworking. Participants can get as custom as they like with their board in Dave's fully equiped woodshop! | Dave Fowler |
| Intro to OpenSCAD (Programmatic 3D Modeling) | We'll learn to program 3D objects in OpenSCAD, very approachable for people who know how to code but are intimidated by learning a full CAD program. (just thinking this might actually be useful to ppl doing 3d printing n stuff; I can't say I'm an expert or anything but I use OpenSCAD from time to time when I need to make something quick) | Azlen Elza & Lucas Gelfond |
| Make Your Own Moss & Flower Island | we will be creating our own moss island/moss bed flower arrangements. i'll bring an assortment of dried flowers, fresh flowers, foliage and moss. i'll direct everyone through cutting out, soaking, and filling provided containers/trays with flower foam which will then be covered in a bed of moss. participants will be able to pick out their own assortment of flowers & greens to arrange | Chris Giang |
| Overview of Natural San Francisco | We'll look at SF's geologic history, some native plants and animals, and find out how select neighborhoods turned into what they are now. There will be some rock samples, some old maps, and other fun stuff to investigate about SF's past. | Mason Zoyt |
| Touch Sensitive Paintings | We can use conductive paint and/or fabric and make fun interactive works of art on a mini canvas! | Tru Narla |