Workshop

This Spring's series of four workshops focus on a diverse range of polymathic practices. Each one a unique synthesis of history, science, art, technology, and culture.

Students of all majors welcome.

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Current Semester

Spring 2026

Nov 30 2022

Procedural Audio & Music

When: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Where: Ahmanson Lab | Leavey Library, 3rd floor (LVL 301)
Event Type: Workshop

This workshop will introduce participants to procedural audio, the generation and composition of sound (and music) through programming. Students will learn digital signal processing and will build a simple synthesizer or song. No prior coding experience required!

Workshop image created with Dalle 2.

Nov 2 2022

Generative Art & Graphics

When: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Where: Ahmanson Lab | Leavey Library, 3rd floor (LVL 301)
Event Type: Workshop

This workshop will cover the basics of creating generative art and digital graphics. Participants will learn how to use Processing, a software library that enables artists and designers to create graphics and interactive applications quickly and playfully. No prior coding experience required!

Workshop image: "Folk Recursion" by Aaron Reuland (a_soluble_fish). CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

Sep 8 2022

Historical Maps & Machine Learning

When: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Where: Ahmanson Lab | Leavey Library, 3rd floor (LVL 301)
Event Type: Workshop

Please join us Thursday September 8, 2022 from 12 pm – 1 pm in Ahmanson Lab in Leavey Library the to learn about tools that can be used to transform historical maps into research data using machine learning. Katie McDonough from the Turing Institute and Valeria Vitale from the University of Sheffield will be presenting an overview on machine learning and map text annotation tools to explore the potential of this workflow to generate data and metadata for and from digitized historical maps. Use cases will focus on National Library of Scotland’s Ordnance Survey Maps and Library of Congress’s Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps and will include an example of using these tools for crowdsourcing.

Workshop image created with Dalle 2.