field:work Drawing With Code

​An afternoon translating the oldest art-school exercise... sitting in front of a still life and drawing what you see, but with code.

​We'll set up an arrangement of physical objects in the Lab, then spend the session writing code-based responses to it. Instead of pencil and paper, you'll have a tool that we've created for you. The question becomes: how can we see the world through algorithms? What does this medium abstract or exaggerate? What kind of picture emerges when a scene is described in loops, coordinates, and rules rather than lines?

​The workshop is less about producing polished images and more about treating computation as a way of seeing.

​Bring a laptop. Beginner-friendly. Starter code and objects provided.

​Part of Workshops & Explorations, field:work's monthly series exploring creative coding, generative systems, and computation as an artistic medium.