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A platform for learning and experimentation, by and for artists. Chicago-based and online. Coming soon.

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You’re invited to join Chicago Processing Community Day 2026 on October 11th from 2-6pm in Pilsen at Mana Contemporary.

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What does it mean to convene a Processing community, and an art in technology more broadly, in Chicago? Instead of focusing on the technical know-how of creative code through workshops and tutorials, we envision PCD as a convening for collective imagining. What is the state of the art in Chicago, in an inflection point of accelerating technological development and artistic transformation? On the occasion of Processing’s 25th anniversary, we invite you to join a group of artists, educators, technologists, designers, and other practitioners to consider this question through a facilitated workshop and discussion.

Guided by the themes of Emergence and Improvisation, the event will bring together participants from across creative communities in Chicago for discussions, exchange, and community building. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to share their computational artworks or ongoing projects made using tools such as p5.js. Our ambition is to bring together groups and practitioners with different institutional affiliations, aesthetic approaches, and technical backgrounds to envision what a robust and well-supported computational art community might look like in Chicago.

Tentative timetable
2-4:30pm Facilitated Collaborative Workshop on the past, present, and future of art, technology, and culture in Chicago.
4:30 -5:30pm Light Meal + Pecha Kucha style lightning talks (please RSVP on form to participate!
5:30-6:00pm Conversation and Exchange

RSVP at link in bio 🔗!

Processing Community Day Chicago 2026 is organized by Maddie Brucker @peripheral____ , Grace Grace Grace @diagrammatic.media , and Cassie Tarakajian @hellothisiscass , and hosted by Peripheral Study @peripheral_study and CCAM, the Center for Concrete and Abstract Machines @ccam_chicago by @peripheral_study

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You’re invited to join Chicago Processing Community Day 2026 on October 11th from 2-6pm in Pilsen at Mana Contemporary.

RSVP at link in bio!

What does it mean to convene a Processing community, and an art in technology more broadly, in Chicago? Instead of focusing on the technical know-how of creative code through workshops and tutorials, we envision PCD as a convening for collective imagining. What is the state of the art in Chicago, in an inflection point of accelerating technological development and artistic transformation? On the occasion of Processing’s 25th anniversary, we invite you to join a group of artists, educators, technologists, designers, and other practitioners to consider this question through a facilitated workshop and discussion.

Guided by the themes of Emergence and Improvisation, the event will bring together participants from across creative communities in Chicago for discussions, exchange, and community building. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to share their computational artworks or ongoing projects made using tools such as p5.js. Our ambition is to bring together groups and practitioners with different institutional affiliations, aesthetic approaches, and technical backgrounds to envision what a robust and well-supported computational art community might look like in Chicago.

Tentative timetable
2-4:30pm Facilitated Collaborative Workshop on the past, present, and future of art, technology, and culture in Chicago.
4:30 -5:30pm Light Meal + Pecha Kucha style lightning talks (please RSVP on form to participate!
5:30-6:00pm Conversation and Exchange

RSVP at link in bio 🔗!

Processing Community Day Chicago 2026 is organized by Maddie Brucker @peripheral____ , Grace Grace Grace @diagrammatic.media , and Cassie Tarakajian @hellothisiscass , and hosted by Peripheral Study @peripheral_study and CCAM, the Center for Concrete and Abstract Machines @ccam_chicago taken in Mana Contemporary by @peripheral_study

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PS x @ccam_chicago x @almanac_gallery presents -

Deconstructing the Image, a creative coding workshop taught by @peripheral____

July 2nd 6-8pm
Hosted at @mouseartsandletters
Register in bio

See you there ✨

#creativecoding #p5js #algorithmicart #chicagoartists by @peripheral_study

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4 months ago

New newsletter up, talking identity, form, and genre through the lens of an obscure 1998 anthropological text. What is a figured world? How do we form seemingly coherent selves across time and place? Link in bio for more, and as always, subscribe to get newsletters delivered straight to your inbox. by @peripheral_study

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What does it mean to remain on the outskirts of a group, a setting, an institution? For the first newsletter, I wrote about the term "peripheral" and the theories of learning and social practice originating in the work of the social anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, probing what the term might do for us as an ethic of practice. Link in bio, and make sure to subscribe to receive future newsletters. by @peripheral_study

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6 months ago

What forms of learning, working, and knowing do we need in this moment? Peripheral Study is a pedagogical experiment in learning from the margins, a structure for relational knowledge-making at the fringes of disciplines, outside of institutional hierarchies. More coming soon. by @peripheral_study

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7 months ago