electrodex*

Art, code, hardware, critical theory

Self-directed retreat for programmers

Residencies and fellowships for artists working with tech

Platform for art and advanced tech, NYC + Athens

Digital media arts center

Fabrication and emerging tech for artists

Artist-run browsing library, open events monthly

Video art and media education space, Brooklyn

School of Radical Attention

VC events and community programs

Creative tech gallery and salons, 151 Powell St, San Francisco

Community coworking, Chinatown + Greenpoint

@telepathy.nyc

Arts, media, and community programming in Downtown Brooklyn

Artist collective and residency in Long Island City, since 1994

Global art and technology community, founded by SeoulArts and La MaMa

Creative technology studio and development shop

Community arts center in the East Village

Fashion and wearable tech fabrication hub, closed; old domain is now spam

The home base

Games, play, and interactive media

Weekly meetup open to all

Small group of ITP alumni

John-Henry Thompson's Brooklyn project

Extended reality practitioners

Hacker collective in Boerum Hill

All-volunteer hackerspace, open Tues + Thurs

Community fabrication lab

Welding, blacksmithing, ceramics, CNC, waterjet at Brooklyn Army Terminal

Community computer space

Hosts Synth Library NYC

Friend studio next to Hex House

Community repair

Community repair

Volunteer-run makerspace in Bushwick

Ceramics, print, metalwork, and public art fab in Gowanus

17,000 sq ft glass studio in Brooklyn: blowing, neon, flameworking

Artist-owned glass studio with hourly rentals and classes

Jewelry and metalsmithing classes and studio access

Woodworking, metalworking, welding, knife making workshops in Industry City

Community clay studio with 24/7 membership, South Slope

Ceramics studio, residency, and gallery

Pottery studio and classes at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

World's first community biology lab, Sunset Park Brooklyn

Bioart space at the Brooklyn Army Terminal

Classes, residency, community

Textile-focused studio

Artist-run US residency for e-textile practitioners

Hannah Perner-Wilson and Mika Satomi's e-textile reference wiki

All Yarns Are Beautiful, open source machine knitting

Community synth library hosted at Hex House

Digital media arts center with deep roots in sound art

Audio and immersive events

Monthly events for live coders

Browser-based live coding video synth by Olivia Jack

Live coding environment for music and patterns

Code-based music creation for all

Open source visual programming for audio and more

Visual programming for music, audio, and media

Web audio framework for interactive music

Monthly show at Wonderville exploring language and code

Indie arcade bar and event space

Monthly Touch Designer meetup

Comfy UI and Touch Designer meetups

Trans-centered gamer party

Design group meetup

NEW INC's annual art, design, and tech festival at the New Museum

Quarterly zine + monthly midtown meetings

Hackers On Planet Earth, annual NYC conference

Hacker collective, open craft nights

Leftist community center, dinner every Sunday

Periodic events (@uaad.art)

Brooklyn art space for artist projects in public

Volunteer-run tech meetup and community in Astoria, Queens

Modern Geocities revival

New media art hub since 1996

Online art and zine community

Marketplace for creative works

Human-centered tech VC

Laurel Schwulst and Elliott Cost's celebration of handwritten HTML

Laurel Schwulst's art and design learning initiative, NYC

Community for p5.js and Processing sketches

Collaborative mood-boarding for the internet-conscious

Creative coding library for the web

Friendly machine learning for the web

Stewards of Processing and p5.js

Open source C++ toolkit for creative coding

Open source hardware, tutorials, and community

Electronics and maker education

Open Source Hardware Association

Notebooks for data visualization and creative code

Generative text grammar tool by Kate Compton

NYC institution for artists' books and zines, Chelsea

Risograph printing studio and community

Risograph educational facility with classes and open studio

Community archive of cultural materials from social movements

Zine library, radio, and public access TV, archive now in Chinatown

Publishing and curatorial initiative + Brooklyn Art Book Fair

Independent zine and comics shop in Williamsburg

Radical library and community space in Bushwick

Comics and zine shop in Williamsburg

Worker-owned print shop and publisher in Brooklyn

Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

Annual community festival in NYC dedicated to offline presence and anti-surveillance organizing

Crowdsourced map of automated license plate readers

Unplugging from surveillance tech

Unionizing tech workers

Helping NYers access tech and information

Annual festival + museum, Linz Austria

Annual, Hamburg

Amsterdam

Research + publishing, Berlin / Turin / Venice

SF-based, classes online

France

Annual indie games festival, Kyoto

Music and Gaming Festival

Cleveland Heights, OH

One of the world's first hackerspaces, crashed space station mythology, Berlin 1995

Influential Viennese hackerspace, helped inspire the US hackerspace movement

SF hackerspace, sister to NYC Resistor

Residencies, Berkeley

Co-op makerspace in NOPA, SF

Meetups, Netherlands

Co-working, Amsterdam

SF ITPCamp-esque

Demos & Chill, SF show-and-tell series

Digital naturalism conference

Annual conference

Singapore

Bookshop and workshop space for hacking, free culture, and zines, Philadelphia

Monthly indie game talks, Amsterdam

Global network of fabrication labs

Membership-based DIY tech, textiles, and creative community space, Montréal

Digital culture centre with 360 Satosphère dome, residencies, and research

Gallery, studio, and education for art and technology in Toronto, est. 1983

Concordia research institute for arts, culture, and technology

Canada's largest art and design university, Toronto

Art and design university in Vancouver

Annual Toronto festival for digital games and interactive art

Artist-run centre for electronic and digital arts in Montréal

Artist-run centre for contemporary art in Montréal

Toronto artist-run makerspace and collaborative lab

Browser-based coding, community hosting, shut down 2025

NYC event space, Discord still lives

Chiptune concerts at Babycastles, 2007–2017

Internet craft market, 2012–2023

Creative coding festival in Minneapolis, 2011–2022, on indefinite hiatus