Studios
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each studio, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
Twelve studios, each one working mechanism at a time — a pointer signal, a constraint, a decay, a second hand on the same instrument — building toward the single idea the semester closes on: 无法而法，乃为至法, the method of no method is the perfect method.
First marks
The first studio — what to have working before you arrive, and the smallest possible instrument you'll build once you do
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
First review
The second studio, where the mark made in week 1 meets a hand that isn't yours for the first time
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
Gesture as data
Reading more out of a pointer than its position — speed, dwell, and what those signals should change
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
One constraint
Choosing a single rule to enforce, and watching it do more work than a whole list of features would
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
Feedback and decay
Giving the instrument a state that keeps moving on its own, so it's a small system and not just a picture machine
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Crit: First Instrument
The studio where First Instrument is due and shown, and the shift from building for yourself to building for a stranger's hands
Week 6 · 29 March 2027
Many hands
Folding mouse, touch and keyboard into one path through the code, instead of a separate branch for each
Week 7 · 5 April 2027
Pattern and seed
Giving a hand a control to choose among a family of variations, deliberate rather than accidental, instead of one fixed result
Week 8 · 12 April 2027
Failure as material
Choosing a place for the instrument to fail on purpose, and defending that choice against "isn't that just a bug"
Week 9 · 19 April 2027
From stroke to system
Scaling one instrument into a small series — output that varies without you touching the code between runs
Week 10 · 26 April 2027
Staging the work
Preparing an instrument to run unattended for a stranger, with none of the context you'd normally supply out loud
Week 11 · 3 May 2027
The method of no method
The final crit — exhibition pieces shown together, and the semester's throughline named out loud for the first time
Week 12 · 10 May 2027