Category: 2019

Time/Date: Jan 24, 7:30 PM – 9 PM

Room: Meeting Room

Instructor: Alden Rivendale Jones

Description

Orientation Meeting Thursday, January 24th 7:30PM

Welcome to The Ongoing Now Corporation. We are looking forward to having you start on Thursday, January 24th! For your first day we would like you to begin work at 730PM.

On your first day, please bring the following items with you:

1) Two forms of ID. If you do not bring any, identification will be provided for you.
2) An unsentimental discarded object formerly belonging either to you or to a stranger.
3) A pen or other common writing instrument. A pin capable of piercing the skin will not be necessary, as we have phased out blood signatures.
4) A smile! 🙂

Please do not hesitate to email me if you have any questions. We look forward to your first day at The Ongoing Now.

Regards,
Nada Nully | HR Consultant

Prerequisites

A name

5 Years+ Garbage Experience Preferred!

Time/Date: Jan 24, 7 PM – 8:30 PM

Room: Conference Room

Instructor: Caleb Savage

Description

Learn the basics of creaing a database-driven web application using MySQL and PHP

Prerequisites

Laptop with MAMP or XAMP installed. https://www.mamp.info/en/ https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html We can go over installation in class.

General programming experience in any language

Time/Date: Jan 24, 7 PM – 9 PM

Room: Room 20

Instructor: Jordan Rickman

Description

So your code works. But when you look at it again a month from now, will it make any sense to you? Can you tweak its behaviour without it blowing up? In this session, we’ll learn how to write *good* code – readable, reliable, reusable. I’ll share key principles and habits that will not only make your code better, but make you a better coder – able to build things with much less time and pain.

Prerequisites

Laptop.

Basic knowledge of any programming language. We’ll use JavaScript for the examples.

Time/Date: Jan 24, 6 PM – 7 PM

Room: Meeting Room

Instructor: Lillian Ritchie

Description

Come learn the basics of knitting! We will cover casting on and the basic knit stitch.

Prerequisites

We have some yarn and needles to loan but supplies are limited! If you want to start a project please BYO. Email me if you need suggestions for what size yarn and needles to get!

Time/Date: Jan 24, 4:30 PM – 6 PM

Room: Conference Room

Instructor: Dongphil Yoo

Description

Learn how to train Pix2Pix model with Spell and generate on the web with ml5.js

Prerequisites

Laptop, Spell.run account (with free $100 credits) https://www.spell.run/

Python / JavaScript / Terminal basics

Time/Date: Jan 24, 5 PM – 6:30 PM

Room: Room 50

Instructor: Matthew Ross

Description

Join us to learn the basics of Max MSP for video sampling and playback. We will go over the basic commands, concepts, and tools over the course of the session with the goal of creating a reusable Video Sampler. By the end of the session we will be able to do some fun video projection playback that you will be able to manipulate and control using a midi keyboard.

Prerequisites

Bring your laptop with MaxMSP installed if you want to follow along. Download some of your favorite videos from youtube that you want to use in your program

Time/Date: Jan 26, 7 PM – 9 PM

Room: Room 50

Instructor: Jenny Lim, HBO

Description

Final event: movie night!! (With popcorn and snacks!!) Jenny produced the 2018 HBO documentary “The Truth About Killer Robots,” which the Guardian dubbed “The year’s most terrifying documentary.” The movie touches on labor, surveillance and human intimacy. Hopefully we can discuss it a bit afterwards!

Time/Date: Jan 26, 6 PM – 7 PM

Room: Conference Room

Instructor: Lydia Jessup

Description

So you’ve connected to an API, found an open data portal or recieved a csv in your inbox. What next? In the real world, data are messy and need to be checked, prepared and cleaned before being analyzed, turned into a data visualization or fed into a machine learning algorithm. This workshop will cover the basics of the steps to go through in order to 1) get to know your raw data and 2) tidy your data. We’ll discuss what people want to do with data (machine learning, visualization, analysis, other??) and we’ll work through examples of how to get the data ready for that together. I’ll be going through these examples in R (the favorite statistical software among data scientists) but the concepts and steps can be applied to other statistical software or coding languages.

Prerequisites

Bring a laptop and dataset or project idea if you want, but I’ll have example data to use if you don’t have anything specific in mind!

Time/Date: Jan 26, 5 PM – 6 PM

Room: Room 50

Instructor: Nick Wallace

Description

Learn how to tie basic knots and hitches! A hands on workshop where attendees will learn basic knots and hitches (and their use cases) that are useful in a variety of scenarios. These will be primarily focused on knots/hitches for the outdoors (hiking, climbing, camping), but many will be applicable to rigging and/or everyday scenarios.

Time/Date: Jan 26, 5 PM – 7 PM

Room: Room 20

Instructor: Marcela Mancino

Description

This exploration invites us to refine our perception of space, others, and ourselves. Based on performing art techniques such as Viewpoints and Tuning Scores, and the tools proposed in Modus Operandi AND, it is a moment to train our senses to be in sync with the group, better understanding the potantialities of collaboration. We will briefly investigate possible ways of living together, and then we will put some of that in practice through collective movement exercises.

Prerequisites

This doesn’t have to be physically intense, but we’ll do some moving around. Please wear clothes that you’d feel comfortable doing weird stuff with.

The only requirement is generosity towards others and yourself.