My Computer and I Watch Each Other (Digital Embodiment Poetics)

What does it mean to be seen (and misunderstood) by a computer?

In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore how body gestures can generate poetic texts, visual fragments, and ambient responses using p5.js and MediaPipe. We’ll subvert systems designed for surveillance, control, and legibility - instead reclaiming them as tools for play, poetics, and expressive misinterpretation.

Rather than producing clean or accurate interfaces, participants will build gesture-driven sketches that mishear, drift, and glitch. Grounded in glitch feminism and theories of digital embodiment, this workshop treats machine misrecognition as fertile ground for expression and resistance.

Participants will leave with a browser-based interactive artwork, a beginner-friendly grasp of creative coding, and a deeper understanding of how their presence is sensed, fragmented, or abstracted by machine vision—and how to turn that into art.

No prior coding experience is needed. Just bring a webcam, a laptop, and a willingness to be unreadable.

This workshop is presented as part of Vector Festival 2025.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Tara Rose Morris is a mixed desi new media artist based in Tkaronto, Canada. She uses technology to create live performances, immersive installations, and artifacts that propose fantastical worlds of embodiment, imagination, and mirage. She is particularly interested into the “invisible interstices that lie between the frames” (McLaren, n.d.), taking frames to mean not just keyframes but also bodies, identities, contexts, datapoints, structures and interstices to mean not just inbetweens but also connections, abstractions, memory, latent space, translations, flickers. She sees technology as a threshold to spaces that refuse these “frames”, allowing us access into liminal ontologies that allow us to connect more deeply with self and with each other.

She has shown various video and VR standalone works, including with Gray Area, SXSW XR, VIFF Signals, Superchief Gallery, and NFT NOW. She has developed real-time visual projections for InterAccess, Zora, and Superchief Gallery. She has been an artist in residence with AVAX and Nebraska Art Farm and she is currently a member of NEW INC Y11, focusing on art and code.

She has a BA in Media Studies from Pomona College and an MSc in Fiction and Entertainment from SCIArc.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

MEMBER PRICING
InterAccess Annual Studio Members receive a 40% discount on all workshops. To activate Studio Member pricing, click "Use ticket access code" at checkout and enter your Member discount code.

EQUITY ACCESS PRICING
To reduce financial barriers, a pay-what-you-can (PWYC) discount is available for any community members that self-identify as part of an equity-seeking group, which includes (but is not limited to) disabled, Black, Indigenous, students, and newcomers. This discount is also available to those earning less than a living wage. To request an Equity Access code, please email education@interaccess.org.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION
We are located on the second floor of the building, which is accessible by two flights of stairs or an elevator. The front entrance has an automatic push door and is accessible by ramp or a short flight of stairs. Inside, all InterAccess facilities are on the same level, including a single-user accessible washroom.

CANCELLATION AND RESCHEDULING POLICY
Please email education@interaccess.org to request a refund. We are unable to guarantee attendee cancellations or refunds less than 1 week prior to a workshop or event. InterAccess reserves the right to cancel or reschedule this workshop if necessary.