Witch Science & Witch Tech
This page gathers resources for those who witnessed or missed my performance at Cascadian Midsummer, as well as others curious about Witch Tech, Witch Science, and a radical reorientation toward the history of computing. Each offering stands on its own but shares a common root: ritual, systems, and speculative stories of knowledge.
Essay:
Witch Science in the Sacred Grove
Published in the 2025 Cascadian Midsummer zine and paired with my live performance, this essay responds to the festival’s theme, The Sacred Grove, through narrative and a retelling of history.
It is a companion text, but it stands on its own.
Free Talk:
Intro to Witch Tech
Recorded on October 31, this talk introduces foundational ideas behind Witch Tech through the structure of an introductory programming course. It outlines the stakes before the syntax, how computation emerged from symbolic systems, why logic has a history, and what it means to intervene in it.
WitchTech 101:
On-Demand Course
A four-part lecture series tracing the hidden and sacred histories of computing. We move from looms, alchemy, and divination to cybernetics and modern code. This course offers no programming instruction, only frameworks for understanding technology as a system of belief, power, and pattern. You can find code focused classes there as well, like my Python Tarot App course, but this course is no code, only vibes.
Available as the full series or as individual classes below.
Individual Classes:
Class 1: Ancient Origins
We begin with the symbolic technologies that predate writing: the Ishango Bone, Newgrange, weaving, lunar calendars, and the sacred logic encoded in stone and bone. Moving on to Thoth, Artemis, Cleopatra the Alchemist, and the earliest glimpses of binary thinking.
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Class 2: Medieval & Enlightenment Eras
From medieval herbalists to Renaissance alchemists, this session traces how sacred knowledge was gendered, criminalized, and exiled. We explore the witch trials, alchemical texts, and how “magic” and “science” were separated, and by whom.
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Class 3: Machines of Enchantment: Enlightenment, Industry, and Digital Dreams
Enter the age of automata, mediums, punch cards, and steam. We meet early women technologists and mystical logicians, from Ada Lovelace to spiritualist typists, and look at how industrial and spiritual revolutions collided.
Class 4: Return of the Crystal: Cybernetic Witches and the Reprogramming of the Self
In our final session, we enter the electric age of computation, spirituality, and self-transformation. We explore how mid-20th century mystics, witches, and technologists shaped the digital present, from the WITCH computer and the Moon landing to the Human Potential Movement and techno-pagan revival. We close with the return of the crystal as both tool and symbol.
