Code&Share[52+53]: Let's suck at websites together #1 + #2
Saturday 25th of January, 13-17
Saturday 1st of February, 13-17
@Kunsthal Aarhus, J. M. Mørks Gade 13, 8000 Aarhus
Workshop lead: Anders Visti
This workshop series is for anyone who wants to build their own online site. We're stripping away site-builders, frameworks and content management systems to make it simpler for new coders to build their own online presence, exactly how they want.
We will talk about the differences between the early and the current internet, and why it still makes a lot of sense to build your own online site. The workshops introduces the basic technologies of the web, teaches participants to program websites and offers a way for participants to host a site, free of charge. You can join the individual workshops separately, but the workshop assumes participants are there for both workshops. No programming experience is required and it's free of charge. Bring your laptop. We have snacks and drinks.Free signups: workshop #1 and workshop #2
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Code&Share[54]: "Decentralised AI Imaging"
Saturday 22nd of February, 13-17
@Kunsthal Aarhus, J. M. Mørks Gade 13, 8000 Aarhus
Workshop lead: Nicolas Malevé
These recent years have been characterized by a strong movement of recentralization towards platforms (Srnicek et al., 2018) and a nearly total monopoly over the infrastructure of large scale computation. This is also true for flagship products of image generation software such as Dall-e or Adobe Firefly. However, the relentless work of communities of developers, enthusiasts and activists has helped create a nascent alternative made of disparate pieces of software, material resources, documentation, forums and counter-lobbies. If during a long period, to inspect state of the art AI models one required the permission of software giants under restrictive conditions, the situation is now changing as the alliance between a large series of smaller actors has reached a critical threshold. The Stable Diffusion ecosystem is a paradigmatic example.
During this session, we will explore the various agents, software, interfaces and datasets that sustain Stable Diffusion as well as the communities involved in the project. Through several small experiments we will test how scripts, models and interfaces can help play with the pipeline of image generation and transform it.
No programming experience is required and it's free of charge. Bring your laptop. We have snacks and drinks.