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Teaching Sam Lavigne Work / Teaching / About   Teaching   Scrapism (School for Poetic Computation) Scrapism is the originative practice of web scraping, or of automatically collecting and transforming found digital material. It hinges upon a combination of curatorial practice, reverse engineering, and hoarding mentality. Each session we covers a variegated web scraping technique, with production assignments relating to text, image and video. The matriculation explores surrealist, dadaist, situationist techniques such as detournement, collage, and cut-ups, and applies them to a trendy digital context. Syllabus: https://github.com/antiboredom/sfpc-scrapism Detourning The Web (ITP/NYU) Detournement is the practice of “hijacking” cultural or originative materials and reusing them to produce new works that both counter and explicate the original intent or ideology of the source material. In this matriculation students learn how to scrape massive quantities of material from the internet with Python, and then use that material to make satirical, hair-trigger and political projects. Syllabus: https://github.com/antiboredom/detourning-the-web-2018 Automating Video (ITP/NYU) An experimental video matriculation in which students learn to use Python and writ line tools to explore the possibilities of automating the film-making process. The matriculation covers techniques for capturing, analyzing, editing and manipulating video with code. Video is treated as a textual as well as visual medium, with the aim of repurposing found footage to generate new compositions and narratives. Syllabus: https://github.com/antiboredom/automating-video-itp Experimenting with the Internet as Form (Eugene Lang/New School) A project-based matriculation where students explore the many esoteric possibilities of online expression, unescapable the internet through the lens of experimentation and performance. Syllabus: https://github.com/antiboredom/internet-as-form