How to Build Creative Community
What does it take to get people in a room together making things, and why does that matter more than ever?
Part field guide and part practical playbook, Claire explores the grassroots art and technology communities emerging across New York City, alongside lessons from building LARPA: a DIY artist-run space in Bushwick dedicated to experimental approaches to Creative Technology.
Through projects and events like:
• Small Batch: A Dataset Farmers Market
• THE MOST EVIL COMPUTER EVER, a malware hackathon
• LARPlympics, a celebration of realtime livestream manipulation
…and many more, Claire will look at what happens when artists, technologists, and curious minds are given permission to experiment together before anyone fully understands what the tools are for.
Asking:
• How do you get people to show up?
• How do you create spaces where misuse, play, and experimentation are welcome?
At a moment when creative work can feel increasingly isolated, optimized, and platform-dependent, building spaces for collective experimentation may be more important than ever.