SFPC 2025 'Poetics and Protocols of Sampling' Final Projects

Features: This digital repository features a diverse collection of experimental works emerging from the School For Poetic Computation’s "Poetics and Protocols of Sampling" workshop. The site serves as a curated archive of interactive browser-based projects, audiovisual experiments, and conceptual code-art, all unified by the theme of recontextualizing existing media through algorithmic sampling. The platform provides direct access to source materials, interactive prototypes, and technical documentation, highlighting the intersection of critical theory and creative coding.

History: The site was established to document the culmination of a specialized intensive at the SFPC, an artist-run school dedicated to the exploration of computation as a medium. The workshop aimed to deconstruct the "protocol" of sampling—traditionally a musical technique—and expand it into a broader methodology for digital art, data manipulation, and cultural critique in the year 2025.

Use cases: Users can explore the site to discover innovative approaches to generative art and digital archiving. It serves as an educational resource for students and technologists interested in how sampling can be used to reframe cultural history. Additionally, it functions as a portfolio space for artists to demonstrate how raw data and existing media can be transformed into new, interactive aesthetic experiences.