Schedule and Workshop Descriptions
Most workshops will run on Saturdays: February 27 and March 6, and if you can't make these live discussions, you can access recordings later. A limited number of workshops will occur during the hackathon (March 9-10). Please select your workshops during the registration process, and you will receive a confirmation email with further instructions within 3 days.
| WORKSHOP | DATE | TIME |
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| Intro to Data Analysis with Python Pandas This workshop will help researchers with no prior programming experience learn Python Pandas to analyze research data. Attendees will learn how to open data files in Python, complete basic data manipulation tasks and save their work without compromising the original data. |
February 27 | 12pm |
| Making art with code in the web Join me as we explore creating visual art in the web! This workshop will cover information about how to make interactive vibrant visualizations from code written with the creative coding gold standard p5.js . Goals are to provide participants with tools to make exciting visuals on the web for their hackathon projects or just to satisfy their inner artists. No installs or experience needed, just bring a laptop and dive in! |
February 27 | 2pm |
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Intro to Arduino Participants will pick up kits at the UAL Main Library prior to the workshop |
February 27 | 12pm |
| Intro to Augmented Reality with Spark AR Take a selfie with a toon! Join us as we learn about Spark AR and how to create an augmented reality experience you can share on Facebook and Insta! No prior experience necessary. You will need a phone/tablet, computer, Spark AR installed, and a Facebook account. https://sparkar.facebook.com/ar-studio/ |
February 27 | 12pm |
| Building Mobile Apps in React Native | March 6 | 12pm |
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Zines and Communities: Honoring Relationships and Positionalities Join Indigenous Honeys for a digital zinemaking workshop! In this |
March 6 | 12pm |
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Mini Sumo Bot Build and Competition Participants build and program a mini sumo robot kit and then Build on Saturday, March 6, compete in the double elimination contest Participants will pick up kits at the UAL Main Library prior to the workshop. |
March 6 | 1-3pm |
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Collaborating online: Lessons from a Successful Team Based on the experiences of an interdisciplinary software design and research team |
March 6 | 1pm |
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Introduction to 3D Printing This workshop will guide attendees through the basics of 3D modeling and |
March 6 | 2pm |
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Threading Water: create a tapestry using weaving techniques Users will assemble their laser-cut loom and use the yarn provided to create |
March 6 | 2pm |
March 8, 4-6pm
We are excited to welcome you all in a special event kickoff and celebration of International Women's Day with an inspiring discussion about this year's theme, Mutual Aid. Keynote speaker Adela Licona presents Art as Coalitional Gesture & Information as Moving Matter.
This conversation introduces TENDER R/AGE :: RABIA TIERNA, an online and traveling installation of art and information addressing the separation of families at the US/Mexico border and the caging of children. It began as a crowdsourcing call to friends informed by a feminist coalitional politics. Its coalitional impetus coalesces around its collective cry for no cages. Living on occupied territory and being born and raised in the borderlands, TENDER R/AGE :: RABIA TIERNA, acknowledges the long tradition in the US of separating families – chosen and biological. The project also recognizes how the US has led the way in producing, and continues to produce, the Migration Industrial Complex (MIC), its profit-driven economies, technologies, detentions, and surveillances. For years I have been working on the idea of the US as a regime of distortion where fear and insecurity are cultivated through state rhetorics, policy, and the media to criminalize, pathologize, and thereby distort whole populations. I envisioned this project as a call for seeing and looking anew and for informed collective action with outrage, compassion, and sustained connections.
Adela C. Licona is the founder and lead consultant at The Art of Change Agency, a coaching and consulting agency supporting critical voices and creative visions for sustainable practice, structural change, and social transformation. She is an Associate Professor Emeritus, English, at the University of Arizona, where she served as founding member and Vice Chair of the Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory graduate minor and was affiliated faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies, Institute for LGBT Studies, Institute of the Environment, and Mexican American Studies. Adela is a writer and photographer who is Editor Emeritus of Feminist Formations and who serves on the advisory/editorial boards for Feminist Formations, the Primavera Foundation, Art+Feminism, and BorderLinks, a border immersion and popular educational project in Tucson, Arizona.
March 9-10, 9am-5pm
During our two UA Reading Days we will convene to work on projects with one another. Team formation will happen on Tuesday morning, and workshops will continue throughout the day.
We are excited to welcome our partner event Art+Feminism into the Hackaton events this year, as well as workshops from the UA WICS (Women in Computer Science).
| WORKSHOP | DATE | TIME |
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| Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon: Mutual Aid Workshop How can editing Wikipedia become an act of mutual aid and care? Panelists from CATalyst Studios, the Center for Creative Photography, the Public History Collaborative, and the Poetry Center will reflect on collaborative Wikipedia editing practices that uplift artistic communities and correct historical erasures. |
March 9 | 9am-10am |
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Orientation Session; Team Formation and Resource connections |
March 9 | 10am-11am |
| Making art with code in the web Join me as we explore creating visual art in the web! This workshop will cover information about how to make interactive vibrant visualizations from code written with the creative coding gold standard p5.js . Goals are to provide participants with tools to make exciting visuals on the web for their hackathon projects or just to satisfy their inner artists. No installs or experience needed, just bring a laptop and dive in! |
March 9 | 2pm-4pm |
| Communal Wikipedia Editing Join us for an informal, social, and collaborative hour of editing Wikipedia articles pertaining to underrepresented artists and communities. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate, with a special welcome to womxn, non-binary, and femme people. |
March 9 | 3pm-4pm |
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Social Hour and Connection |
March 9 | 4pm-5pm |
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Orientation Session and Check-in: Team Formation and Resource connections |
March 10 | 9am-10am |
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Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon: Reliable, Verifiable, and Neutral: how to search for valid Wikipedia sources |
March 10 | 10-11am |
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Imposter Syndrome |
March 10 | 1pm |
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Intro to Python Level 2 Already have experience in another programming language? |
March 10 | 3pm |
| Communal Wikipedia Editing Join us for an informal, social, and collaborative hour of editing Wikipedia articles pertaining to underrepresented artists and communities. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate, with a special welcome to womxn, non-binary, and femme people. |
March 10 | 3pm |
March 13, 12pm-2pm
Teams will pitch their final projects and we will celebrate the creative ingenious members of our community. Anyone who works on a project and pitches during the finale is eligible for a prize.
Thanks to our organizing team for planning and coordinating this event!