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So You Want to Go to Plotter School?

In Issue No. 4 of Machine Arts, we explore the growing number of colleges and universities bringing computational art, creative coding, and machine drawing into the classroom.

From leading art and technology institutions like Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and RISD to programs at UCLA, the University of Kentucky, the University of Vermont, and beyond, we look at these programs and the phenomenal artists and educators who lead them.

An informal guide to where you can study machine arts, what you might learn, and the artists and educators leading the way.
Machine Arts, Issue No. 4, Summer 2026. A Bantam Tools publication.

Available now at bantamtools.com/magazine

$Join us this Wednesday evening at @printedmatterinc for RisoLAB Talks vol. 5 to celebrate the release of two new print projects created by the RisoLAB’s Summer 2026 Artists in Residence Travess Smalley and Kyle Canyon! Panayiotis Terzis will moderate a conversation between the artists from 6:00-7:00 pm, followed by drinks and a chance to meet the artists and buy their new editions. RSVP VIA LINK IN BIO!!! Wednesday, October 28th 5:30 pm Printed Matter, Inc. 231 11th Ave. New York, NY 10001 Gauche Neapolitain Girl by Kyle Canyon is a fast paced tale that dives into the thrilling life of a rising Hollywood character actress. She juggles her multi-hyphenated lifestyle, decorates her new postmodern environment, and tries her best to stay out of trouble. However, her tolerance will be pushed to the limit. There’s a bigger secret to our leading lady’s narrative, found between pages and behind folds. You just might have to read twice. The comic’s fractured story arc mimics the absurd montages and arthouse movie scenes it was inspired by. Think the last segment of Mulholland Drive, the tornado scene from The Wizard of Oz, or any of the iconic monologues from Tiffany Pollard during her reality TV confessionals. Kyle Canyon’s multidisciplinary work focuses on acts of repetition and ongoing sequences. The artist draws on methods of risograph printing and silkscreen, since these processes mirror the repetition and expressive abnormalities that come with rumination, the starting point of Canyons’ narratives. His pop-surreal style works in tandem with psychodramatic narratives to convey the nonlinear self-reflection that arises from this starting point. The work is a creative Frankenstein, combining notes from art history, pop-cultural fixations, and the artist’s personal life to form an array of complex narratives. The artist was born in Newport, RI, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY.$

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