FERAL PROGRAMMING is a hybrid class + working group exploring programming as a personal, social, and artistic practice—unstuck from its material history in military, surveillance, and finance tech, and decoupled from its professionalized costume. Structured as an “Introduction to Programming,” it welcomes participants with no programming experience, as well as those looking to relearn from a new perspective.

From the outset, we will collaboratively build a subjective mythology of code writing — entangling a subjective re-reading of programming history with our own experiences with programming-like activities. This will serve as our foundation for learning to code, shaping a “Programming 101” style course through our own collective history and mythology. The class will balance pragmatic, usable programming skills, with theoretical tools to protect our mythology and enchantments in unfriendly territory.

Class projects will focus on personal rituals, creative experiments, and code base art — open to artists and non-artists alike, opportunities to intertwine with your creative practice but also no expectation to “make art.” For beginners, this is a chance to learn programming outside professional frameworks, evaluating expertise and goals on personal and collective terms. For those with experience, it offers a space to strategically un/re-learn what they know, engaging with programming as a collective, experimental practice rather than a tool for professional gain or alienated labor.

FERAL PROGRAMMING was taught for the first time, spring 2025 90mil art school in Berlin. Future iterations of the class will occur later in 2025.