💧  Welcome to 2023 the online hub of Digital Love Languages, a 5 week class at Yale Graduate School of Art taught by Melanie Hoff.

💧  DDigital Love Languages is a class for reframing our relationship to computing in relation with others. Digital Love Languages is based on the premise that there is a world where all our software is made by people who love us and that we can contribute to building it. Digital Love Languages is an experiment in communion disguised as a class.

💧  In this class, we learn about things as a proxy to learn about other things. We learned about digital security to learn about intimacy. We learn about digital coding to learn how we’re socially coded. We learned about coded naming to learn about internal knowing. We learn about learning to learn about living.

💧  We engage with code as a craft capable of expressing a full range of feeling and desire while looking to the love letter as form, from the quill to the sext. Through a series of educational encounters, we build poetic structures for digital touching and practice a re-examination of personal and networked computing. This was a call to action for expanding computation’s capacity for fostering interdependence and feeling. This class will be a crash course in the building blocks of programming, web, and natural language processing using Python & Javascript in the browser.