making tiny computational poems and poetic websites w/ Helen Shewolfe Tseng

​What does it mean to code poetically? How might the browser be a site for poetic engagement? Join us to explore tiny poetic websites, and the many ways that poets engage digital and computational processes to play with language and creative expression. Together, we will browse the growing world of computational poetry projects and publications, and discuss the handmade web, low-tech websites, sizecoding as aesthetic and ideological constraint, and more. In the hands-on portion of the workshop, participants will be guided through some processes for writing their own computational poems.

​Bring a laptop, pre-installed with a code editor with localhost capabilities. Prior experience with HTML, CSS, and Javascript are recommended, but not required.

​Helen Shewolfe Tseng is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, wildlife naturalist, and occasional computational poet based in San Francisco. In 2024, Helen joined the editorial collective for Taper, a browser-based literary magazine for computational poetry under 2KB (2048 bytes). https://shewolfe.co https://instagram.com/wolfchirp