Alicia Solstice Hawkins will present on how speculative fiction offers subversive narratives that challenge oppressive worldviews, while reimagining powerful and liberatory counter-narratives. This will be followed by exercises on how participants can incorporate speculative fiction into their documentary or fiction film projects.

Workspace Resident Maggie Hazen will lead participants as they create their own stop motion animations, while learning fundamental artistic techniques in digital 2d animation and developing a new exciting visual language.

In this interactive workshop, Kristin McWharter will discuss the complex meanings within competitive game structures and then guide students in their own creation of a new sport. The workshop will end by playing the game and crowning the created sport's first champion! 

In this lecture and demonstration, Jaehoon Choi will demonstrate to participants through steps to make a FSR Sensor that can be used to create a range of sound production for sonic and other art performances.

Workspace Resident Léwuga Benson will guide participants through creative exercises that will explore the transformative powers of personal artifacts and the ways they can shape personal and community narratives.

In this laptops-open play-along workshop, Workspace Resident Everest Pipkin will discuss the histories and complexities of text encoding and lead students through software demos and creative exercises that explore the fuzzy edges of what a character "is"

Part performance lecture, part interactive imagining, participants will be given prompts to write and craft new players for the artists Football Practice simulation software.

Join us at Silo City for a special 16mm handmade film workshop with plants, led by filmmaker Kathryn Ramey!

In this one-time workshop by visiting filmmakers and Workspace Residents Ahmed T. Ragheb and Lily Ekimian Ragheb, the filmmakers will introduce and provide a space for participants to workshop their own essay films.

Squeaky Wheel presents a special performance based workshop with Workspace Resident Kyla Kegler (Buffalo, NY) based on her project Care-Core and that examines self-care, collective care, and somatic knowledge

In this special seminar with visiting artist Sue Ding (Los Angeles, CA), participants will gain a detailed understanding of different strategies for working with found footage, particularly that of popular media

In this special workshop, participants will learn about creative approaches and strategies for making experimental films using no-cost archival, found, and/or reappropriated materials.