ALT A graphic of our 2023 fellow mentors. A headshot of Neema Githere, Luisa Pereira, Sierra Gilliam, LaJuné McMillian, Mathura M. Govindarajan, Kemi Ukadike, Xin Xin, and Adrian Jones are in circles from top left to bottom right. In the middle of the circles is a logo of the Processing Foundation, with “Processing Foundation” written in a circle around the logo. The graphic reads, “Processing Foundation Fellowship 2023” in purple on both left and right edges of the graphic, with a lime background. The headshot images rest on top of a purple and orange sunset background.

ALT A graphic of our 2023 fellow, Liam Baum. A headshot image of our fellow is in the middle, their name in purple against a lime background circumscribes their image. Liam Baum’s headshot is of a man wearing glasses. The photo is digitally altered by changing the colors to green, blue and maroon and the top and bottom of the head is slightly offset by a diagonal line. Around their name is a circular text reading, “Processing Foundation Fellow 2023”. The headshot image and text rests on top of a purple and orange sunset background, with 4 lime flowers decorating each corner of the image.

ALT A project description of Liam Baum’s project, ‘p5.Sound Library Curriculum Development’. It reads, “This project is a continuation to existing p5.Sound Library curriculum developed by previous Processing Teaching Fellows that will explore other areas of the sound library which offer interactive music making opportunities. This curriculum aims to teach about computer science concepts by making projects focused on using different musical characteristics.” Their profile photo, name, project title, and social media handles (Instagram and Twitter @mrbombmusic) are at the top of the description. The image and texts sit on top of a purple-orange sunset background, with the text, “Processing Foundation Fellowships 2023” in purple with a lime background at left and right sides of the graphic. The project description is followed by a Processing Foundation logo.

ALT Liam Baum’s bio. It reads, “Liam Baum (he/him) is a musician, educator and creative coder. He is a music teacher at BELL Academy, a public middle school in Bayside, Queens. He recently got his NY State Teaching Certification in Computer Science from Hunter College. Liam is constantly exploring how technology can be used for the purpose of creative artistic expression both in his classroom and personal artistic endeavors. This has led him to collaborate with CS4All in the NYC Department of Education to assist building curriculum for creative coding with the p5.js Sound Library and to become a teacher ambassador for Makey Makey. He enjoys merging his passions for music, teaching, and coding by making video tutorials and leading workshops around the NYC area. He also occasionally performs live coded music under the name, ‘Mister Bomb’. Liam is a strong believer in the importance of artistic communities as a way to foster his own creative growth and in turn, contribute to teaching [...]

ALT An image that represents Liam Baum’s fellowship project. It is an image of a p5.js sketch with javascript code on the left, a one and a half octave piano keyboard in the middle and a red polygon on a dark gray background on the top right with 6 horizontal sliders and 4 buttons below with various numbers in between them. Their name, project title, and social media handles (Instagram and Twitter @mrbombmusic) are at the bottom of the image. The image and texts sit on top of a purple-orange sunset background, with the text, “Processing Foundation Fellowships 2023” in purple with a lime background at left and right sides of the graphic. The text is followed by a Processing Foundation logo.

ALT A graphic of our 2023 fellow, Nhan Phan. A headshot image of our fellow is in the middle, their name in purple against a lime background circumscribes their image. Nhan, a young Vietnamese artist, with a mohawk, wearing a blue corduroy shirt, sitting in front of a map of the sea of Vietnam. Around their name is a circular text reading, “Processing Foundation Fellow 2023”. The headshot image and text rests on top of a purple and orange sunset background, with 4 lime flowers decorating each corner of the image.

ALT A project description of Nhan Phan’s project, ‘CodeSurfing’. It reads, “CodeSurfing (CLB Lướt Code) is a backyard-science club for Vietnamese to study machine learning through p5.js. The club connects Ho Chi Minh City creative community with local young students to make impactful designs for the coastal environment of Vietnam.” Their profile photo, name, project title, and instagram handle (@nhaninsummer) are at the top of the description. The image and texts sit on top of a purple-orange sunset background, with the text, “Processing Foundation Fellowships 2023” in purple with a lime background at left and right sides of the graphic. The project description is followed by a Processing Foundation logo.

ALT Nhan Phan’s bio. It reads, “Nhan Phan is an artist and educator based in Ho Chi Minh City. He views photography as a documentation of time gone by, which holds not just the visual but also the essence of the world he lives in. The obsession over archiving images later expanded with his training in machine learning. Through analysis, feature learning, and generative algorithms, Nhan's latest work explores how the realm of bygone image archives influences the way we revisit our past, understand our present, and pivot our future. After his undergraduate study in Ritsumeikan University (Japan), Nhan started his teaching journey at CoderSchool, where he designed and taught the computer vision module within a machine learning bootcamp. Since 2022, Nhan has focused on teaching for the creative community. His class introduces machine learning to Vietnamese artists, designers, writers in a more friendly, visual and application-toward way. Working with Van Lang University as well as [...]

ALT An image that represents Nhan Phan’s fellowship project. It is an image of a young student sharing her work with Nhan and a fellow teacher. All laugh while looking at the screen. Their name, project title, and instagram handle (@nhaninsummer) are at the bottom of the image. The image and texts sit on top of a purple-orange sunset background, with the text, “Processing Foundation Fellowships 2023” in purple with a lime background at left and right sides of the graphic. The text is followed by a Processing Foundation logo.

ALT A graphic of our 2023 fellows, Bobby Joe Smith III and Nat Decker. Bobby Joe’s portrait is in black and white, he is looking directly at the camera in a plain white shirt. Nat’s headshot is of a white non-binary person with choppy short dark brown hair parted in the middle. They have on dark lipstick and a thick metal chain necklace. There are glowing white hearts and sparkles over the photo from an instagram filter. A headshot image of our fellows is in the middle, their names in purple against a lime background circumscribes their image. Around their names is a circular text reading, “Processing Foundation Fellow 2023”. The headshot image and text rests on top of a purple and orange sunset background, with 4 lime flowers decorating each corner of the image.

ALT A project description of Bobby Joe Smith III and Nat Decker’s project, ‘Sketching Access’. It reads, “Grounded in the coalitionary and liberatory power of access work, this project proposes the development of a new Processing Foundation Access Fellowship. In order to nurture a sustained and expansive organizational commitment to accessibility, foundational research will be collected as a community resource and to support future fellows.” Their profile photos, names, project title, and social media handles (Instagram @bobbyjoesmithIII @crip_fantasy Twitter @bobbyjoesmithIII) are at the top of the description. The image and texts sit on top of a purple-orange sunset background, with the text, “Processing Foundation Fellowships 2023” in purple with a lime background at left and right sides of the graphic. The project description is followed by a Processing Foundation logo.

ALT Bobby Joe Smith III’s bio. It reads, “Bobby Joe Smith III is a Black and Lakota (Hunkpapa and Oohenumpa) graphic designer and media artist. Design, computation, performance, writing, and lens-based image-making are mediums of expression and inquiry he turns to often. His creative practice is rooted in the ongoing decolonial and abolitionist movements led by Indigenous communities on Turtle Island and across the Black diaspora. His research draws from the decolonial, abolitionist, and post-apocalyptic strategies of Black and Indigenous people to construct a poetic vernacular of "unsettling grammars"—gestures, methodologies, and utterances that deviate, disrupt, and dismantle settler-colonial systems. By rearticulating these ""unsettling grammars"" through the disciplines of media art and design, Bobby Joe seeks to reveal vectors leading toward decolonial futures and generate work that resonates with the people and movements that comprise his community. He holds an MFA in Media Arts[...]

ALT Nat Decker’s bio. It reads, “Nat Decker (they/them) is a Chicago born Los Angeles based artist interpreting the intimacies of queer and disabled lived experience as provocation toward collective care and liberation. Creating between digital and material mediums, they identify the computer as an assistive tool affording a more accessible practice. Often from bed, they use digital 3D software to trace serpentine connections between the body and technology, reimagining fantastical mobility devices as cultural celebration and agitation of conventional desirability politics. This cyclically informs their work with sculpture, creating non-functional mobility devices as aesthetic scrutiny and frictional commentary on designations of usefulness. Nat is also an access worker, consulting on accessibility for organizations such as p5.js, New Art City, Creative Growth, the LA Spoonie Collective, and for various projects at the University of California, Los Angeles. In June 2022 they graduated[...]

ALT A graphic of our 2023 fellow, Joanne Amarisa. A headshot image of our fellow is in the middle, their name in purple against a lime background circumscribes their image. Joanne is smiling over her shoulder, standing against a white wall decorated with ornamental plates placed above her head. She has dark, shoulder-length hair, and is wearing a pair of glasses and a white kebaya top. Around their name is a circular text reading, “Processing Foundation Fellow 2023”. The headshot image and text rests on top of a purple and orange sunset background, with 4 lime flowers decorating each corner of the image.

ALT A project description of Joanne Amarisa’s project, ‘The Data Garden Project’. It reads, “The Data Garden Project is a growing resource and learning community for young women who want to build their first data visualization artworks using Processing and p5.js. Our mission is to build a resource for educators of diverse linguistic & cultural backgrounds to introduce creative coding and data storytelling to their classrooms and communities.”. Their profile photo, name, project title, and instagram handle (@thedatagardenproject) are at the top of the description. The image and texts sit on top of a purple-orange sunset background, with the text, “Processing Foundation Fellowships 2023” in purple with a lime background at left and right sides of the graphic. The project description is followed by a Processing Foundation logo.

ALT Joanne Amarisa’s bio. It reads, “Joanne (Jo) Amarisa is a designer and writer from Indonesia, based in Melbourne, Australia. She currently works a 9-to-5 at a strategic design agency, but outside office hours, you can find her writing a newsletter, tutoring workshops at RMIT University, or leading and facilitating the Data Garden Project. She works with 8 incredible women through the DGP (Mei, Septia, Echa, Sara, Arshi, Amber, Almas, and Joelle) — with multi-disciplinary backgrounds spanning across graphic design, teaching, writing, research, and community building.

ALT An image that represents Joanne Amarisa’s fellowship project. It is an image of a collage showcasing the Data Garden Project's work. Top left to bottom right: A group photo of workshop attendees, a pair of students creating colourful shapes on p5.js, a collaborative Miro of a data viz workshop, a couple of slides used in a Data Garden workshop, a group of members smiling at the end of a Discord study space, progress sketches and examples of students' data visualization project work. Their name, project title, and instagram handle (@thedatagardenproject) are at the bottom of the image. The image and texts sit on top of a purple-orange sunset background, with the text, “Processing Foundation Fellowships 2023” in purple with a lime background at left and right sides of the graphic. The text is followed by a Processing Foundation logo.

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