Extremely Standardised Fun

Why are file formats? Are they real? what???

Let’s learn what file formats really are, where they came from, and why they make us suffer. We will start with an intro to Permacomputing, and how speculative art projects could save engineering!

Then, we will learn just enough computer science to be dangerous. With these new skills, we can explore the surprisingly philosophical worlds of bytebeats, generative image-making, and Unicode-art. By the end, you will wonder why you ever relied on software to do things for you, and uninstall chatGPT forever!!! This workshop requires no prior coding experience or awareness of one’s latent creative abilities. Bring a laptop, and we will install python together. Anything runs python, you’ll be fine!

Mat Hill is a creative coder who loves learning things. The less useful the better.