GroWorld: Experiments in vegetal culture by Maja Kuzmanovic, Nik Gaffney and FoAM
16/07/18Technology in isolation cannot provide truly encompassing visions of what a society could become, even though we have attempted …
PDFWelcome to the Sources page. Here you will find a growing number of sources to inspire you. Some of them have a direct relationship with the Coded Matter(s) series. Others are harvested from the web or shared with us. Included are excerpts from presentations, pieces of code, books, interviews, video’s of lectures and more. If you would like to add something to this page, please let us know.
Thalience – the succesor to Science – Karl Schroeder
16/07/18Those of you who’ve read my novel Ventus may recognize “The Successor to Science” as the title of a fictional paper …
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Spider the Artist short story by Nnedi Okorafor
16/07/18Short Climate fiction story by Nnedi Okorafor
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Tesla Roadster + Starman in Space, Orbiting Earth
16/07/18Spending some time waiting for the boost that will move him to his final orbit. Starman is listening to …
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Extreme habitability, what can we learn from space?
16/07/18This article by Miha Turšič is part of an ongoing research on human outer space activities. In this research different domains …
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Solarpunk a reference guide
16/07/18Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question …
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Utopia as a Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society by Ruth Levitas
16/07/18Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension …
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Everything Change: an anthology of climate fiction
16/07/18Everything Change features twelve stories from our 2016 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest along with along with a foreword …
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Fiction Meets Science
16/07/18Interdisciplinairy research programme at Bremen University run by Susan Gaines. In recent decades, fiction writers have been creating new …
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The Cli-fi Report
16/07/18As the 20th century began to morph into the 21st century in the late 1990s, the global landscape of …
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Eco Fiction
16/07/18Welcome to Eco-fiction.com, a news site that covers environmental authors’ works via book posts, interviews, reader-submitted reviews, bookshelves and …
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Bits of Freedom – dossier profilering
14/05/18Gegevens verzamelen om je gedrag te verzamelen Met alles wat we doen, laten we een spoor van gegevens achter. …
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Ghost in the Machine
14/05/18In a brightly lit office, Joy Buolamwini sits down at her computer and slips on a Halloween mask to …
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The Algorithmic Justice League
14/05/18US initiative for the support of inclusive technology through projects: Fight Bias, Gender Shades and the Coded Gaze
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Why Can’t This Soap Dispenser Identify Dark Skin?
14/05/18On Wednesday, a Facebook employee in Nigeria shared footage of a minor inconvenience that he says speaks to tech’s larger diversity …
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Datactive
14/05/18Hello world! 🙂 We are DATACTIVE, a research project and a research collective exploring the politics of big data broadly defined. …
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Mathwashing: How Algorithms Can Hide Gender and Racial Biases
14/05/18Are algorithms more neutral than people? No. Algorithms can have hidden biases. This makes them a popular way to …
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Kunstenaar Zach Blas laat zien dat surveillance meer op het spel zet dan alleen onze privacy
14/05/18Technologie voor identificatie op basis van uiterlijke kenmerken is aan het inburgeren. Niet alleen bij overheden, ook in ons …
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Tegenlicht – Verslaafd aan het algoritme
14/05/18Of je een baan krijgt of een hypotheek, wie er vervroegd wordt vrijgelaten uit de gevangenis: algoritmes bepalen steeds …
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Possible Bodies Inventory
14/05/18Welcome to the Possible Bodies inventory, a collaborative research on the very concrete and at the same time complex …
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AI Now Institute
14/05/18The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications …
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The Trouble with Bias – Keynote Kate Crawford
14/05/18Kate Crawford is a leading researcher, academic and author who has spent the last decade studying the social implications …
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Data Harm Record
14/05/18The Data Harm Record made by the Data Justice Lab pulls together concrete examples of harm that have been …
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Metadata Society
10/04/18Metadata_Society Matteo Pasquinelli’s entry in the Posthuman Glossary (2017) edited by Rosi Braidotti and Marja Hlavajova https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/posthuman-glossary-9781350030244/
The Earth (for the Posthuman Glossary)
21/03/16Jussi Parikka is a writer, media theorist and professor in technological culture & aesthetics at Winchester School of Art …
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The History of Fractal Art
07/03/16Fractal art is a form of algorithmic art created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as …
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Gravitational Waves & Exoplanets
07/03/16Composer Arthur Jeffes and creative studio Marshmallow Laser Feast have been working with two astrophysicists Samaya Nissanke (Excellence Fellow, Univ. …
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In the Eyes of the Animal
07/03/16Marshmellow Laser Feast (MLF) virtualise a forest through the eyes of its creatures
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After the Sharing Economy
18/02/16Audio archive from a panel with Vinay Gupta, Francesca Pick, Denis Rojo aka Jaromil and Ben Vickers. Part of …
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Lecture by Vinay Gupta at V2
24/12/15During the opening event of Data in the 21st Century on December 19, 2015, Vinay Gupta gave a lecture at V2, …
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Live Visuals, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 19 Issue 3
22/12/15This LEA volume presents a series of seminal papers in the field, offering the reader a new perspective on …
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It’s Official: AIs are now re-writing history
04/09/15“It’s a nice picture, a sweet moment with my wife, taken by my father-in-law, in a Normandy bistro. There’s …
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Flash crashes. Glitches in the trading system
04/09/15An article on We Make Money Not Art about RYBN‘s trading algorithms, which also featured in Coded Matter(s) #10: …
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Top 10 data mining algorithms in plain English
04/09/15An article on rayli.net detailing 10 common data mining algoithms. Be forewarned, your definition of ‘plain English’ may vary.
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The Violence of Algorithms: Why Big Data Is Only as Smart as Those Who Generate It
04/09/15Written by Taylor Owen for Foreign Affairs, published by the American Council on Foreign Relations.
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Algorithmic traders invade $42 trillion bond futures market
04/09/15Written by Jonathan Shapiro for The Sydney Morning Herald. Photo: Getty Images.
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The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money
04/09/15An introduction to (the evils of) high-frequency trading. Written by Brett Scott.
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Outing A.I.: Beyond the Turing Test
17/08/15Our popular conception of artificial intelligence is distorted by an anthropocentric fallacy. An article by Benjamin Bratton published in …
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A History of Algorithms
14/08/15A History of Algorithms: From the Pebble to the Microchip (1999) A source book for the history of mathematics, …
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Code is Not Literature
10/07/15writer turned programmer turned writer, Peter Seibel, explains how a 19th century naturalist approach works to understand the way …
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Demystifying the Algorithm: Who Designs Your Life?
10/07/15Bits of Freedom director Hans de Zwart explains how technology problems are always people problems. Technology = politics.
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Steven Puttemans’ Code
02/06/15The code of Steven Puttemans connected to the Embedded Artificially intelligent VISion Engineering researchgroup at the KU Leuven
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Digital Light – Sean Cubitt, Daniel Palmer and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds.)
12/04/15Light symbolises the highest good, it enables all visual art, and today it lies at the heart of billion-dollar …
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PROJECTOR HACKING notes STRP
11/04/15The “Black and Bright” projector hack removes the colour filters from a low cost video projector to double the …
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CAN: ‘Assembly’ by Kimchi and Chips
11/04/15A hemisphere of 5,500 white blocks occupies the air, each hanging from above in a pattern which repeats in …
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CAN: Lunar Surface – Drawing digital mass in physical space
11/04/15Created by Seoul based art and design studio Kimchi and Chips, Lunar Surface is the latest in the series …
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INST-INT 2013: Elliot Woods
11/04/15Digital Emulsion: Articulating Form in Physical Space – Code has become the principal constructive material of our society, causing …
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Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke
11/04/15In the lead-up to her solo show, institutions of Resolution Disputes , at Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn, Daniel Rourke caught up …
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School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe
30/09/14School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe is an organisation, based in Berlin, dedicated to the imaginative and non-sensical exploration of art and technology. We’re passionate about interactivity …
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Journal of Peer Production
23/05/14The Journal of Peer Production seeks high-quality contributions from researchers and practitioners of peer production. We understand peer production …
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A peer-reviewed journal about // (APRJA)
23/05/14“A peer-reviewed journal about //” (APRJA) is an open-access research journal that addresses the ever-shifting thematic frameworks of digital …
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Journal for Artistic Research
23/05/14The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is an inter-national, online, Open Access and peer-reviewed journal for the identification, publication …
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What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design
23/05/14Our modern society is flooded with all sorts of devices: TV sets, automobiles, microwaves, mobile phones. How are all …
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Marshall Mcluhan: The medium is the message
22/05/14Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (*1911 – +1979) lecture recorded by ABC Radio National Network on 27 June 1979 in Australia.
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The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities
22/05/14The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities explores the use of multiple simultaneous realities as a medium in contemporary …
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RISR
11/05/14RISR is a wearable sensor network that teaches you how to improve your body language through vibration feedback.
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A New Way To Hear Music
11/05/14These clear headphones, designed by Renaud Defrancesco, are using speakers that project sounds into the ears.
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What is the question to which Live Coding is the answer?
31/03/14This is the text of Marcel Wierckx keynote speech at the Algorave symposium held at STEIM in Amsterdam on …
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Simon Geilfus Github Repository
20/02/14Find awesome pieces of code at Simon Geilfus’ Github repository.
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Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852)
18/02/14Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852) is often referred to as the world’s first computer programmer.
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The Quietus Essay: Radical Computer Music
18/02/14How might electronic music sound in a post human future? Robert Barry enlists the help of Holly Herndon, James …
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Max Cooper on the 4D Soundsystem
18/02/14Producer Max Cooper shares his work with the 4D sound system, an immersive environment that allows producers to move …
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Interview Murcof & Geilfus about immersing the audience (2012)
18/02/14During the live performance of Murcof + Simon Geilfus a giant transparent fabric screen will stand between the artists …
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Matthijs Munnik on Lightscape (2012)
18/02/14Matthijs Munnik presents his graduation project Citadels: Lightscape as part of V2_’s Test_Lab: The Graduatoin Edition 2012 at July …
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Paelodictyon: Software and Inspiration by Simon Geilfus
18/02/14This is an article about the creative process behind Paelodictyon, a site specific installation by Simon Geilfus.
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Vice: ‘ALGORAVE’ is the future of dance music
18/02/14It turns out there’s a whole musical subculture based around watching people who love computers create dance music with …
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Algorave on Dutch NOS television
18/02/14Making music with live coding: that’s Algorave. Algoraver Alex McLean from England performs under the name Yaxu.
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What on earth is livecoding?
07/02/14Alex McLean is a programmer and live coder. He performs with a livecoding band called Slub and tours with …
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Peter Kirn: How Music Can Predict the Human/Machine Future
06/02/14From HAL to Wiimotes and Kinect, musicians have predicted the future of machine/human interaction. Because music connects with time, …
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Interview with Jarrett Smith & Ben Voigt (TouchDesigner)
06/02/14Our passion for music electronic music and performing live visuals alongside musicians and DJs was the inspiration.
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TouchDesigner by Derivative
06/02/14TouchDesigner is a visual development platform that equips you with the tools you need to create stunning realtime projects …
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DevArt: Google’s ambitious project
06/02/14Your work could be at the heart of one of the largest digital art exhibitions the world has ever …
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Matter of Sound by Fredrik Skåtar
15/01/14“Matter of Sound” is an artistic project by Fredrik Skåtar aiming at visualizing sounds, audible and inaudible, focusing on …
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Robert Henke on Programming
15/01/14Three laser beams cut through the room and form geometrical shapes – floating, ephemeral, divided by frequencies. Robert Henke …
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Matter over mind, mind over matter
01/12/13Lecture by Dr. Ann-Sophie Lehmann at the University of Utrecht September 24, 2012
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Captives – CG Geological Formations
01/12/13Captives is an ongoing series of digital and physical sculptures by Quayola and a contemporary homage to Michelangelo’s unfinished …
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Digital Material
27/11/13Three decades of societal and cultural alignment of new media have yielded a host of innovations, trials, and problems, …
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Coded Landscapes – Interview ANF
26/11/13LEAP interview about Coded Landscapes: a joint solo show from New York-based artist, Charlotte Becket and Berlin based Andreas …
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Code.org
18/11/13Code.org is a non-profit dedicated to growing computer science education by making it available in more schools, and increasing …
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Is Code the Most Important Language in the World?
13/11/13Coders have become the gatekeepers of how our culture uses technology. Because of this, many people now preach that …
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The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age
12/11/13The Philosophy of Software by theorist David M. Berry is a critical introduction to the subject of code and …
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Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital
12/11/13Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital examines the increasingly important role of digital fabrication in contemporary art, design, and …
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Life in Code and Software
09/11/13Life in Code and Software (edited by David M. Berry) introduces and explores the way in which code and software …
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Dataisnature
24/10/13Interrelationships between natural processes, computational systems and procedural-based art practices Dataisnature came into being in October 2004 initially collecting …
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www.florito.net
13/10/13This is the repository of processing applets created by Marcus Graf. Please make sure you have java installed on …
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Show Us Your Screens
27/09/13A Documentary about live coding practice by Louis McCallum and Davy Smith.
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Software Takes Command
26/09/13Lev Manovich is the first to offer a rigorous theory of the technology we all use daily – software …
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CDM: Create Digital Music/Motion/Noise Pages
25/09/13Home of createdigitalmusic.com, createdigitalmotion.com, and the DIY music and visual community of noisepages.com. Bleeding-edge and just on-the-edge technology for …
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Raspberry Pi
25/09/13The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable …
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Pure Data
25/09/13Pure Data (aka Pd) is an open source visual programming language. Pd enables musicians, visual artists, performers, researchers, and …
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Supercollider
25/09/13SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted …
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MAX
25/09/13Max gives you all the tools to create your own music, sound, video, and interactive media applications. You can …
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VVVV – a multipurpose toolkit
25/09/13vvvv is a hybrid graphical/textual programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling …
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ComputeMusic(now): Andrew Sorensen at TEDxQUT
25/09/13Andrew Sorensen is an artist-programmer, whose interests lie at the intersection of computer science and creative practice. Andrew is …
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Computational Culture a journal of software studies
24/09/13Computational Culture is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of inter-disciplinary enquiry into the nature of cultural computational objects, practices, processes …
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Interview Driessens & Verstappen
19/09/13The Amsterdam based artist couple Erwin Driessens and Maria Verstappen have worked together since 1990. They jointly developed a …
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The Critical Engineering Manifesto
12/09/13The Critical Engineer considers Engineering to be the most transformative language of our time, shaping the way we move, …
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Dedalo by Quayola & Sinigaglia
06/09/13Dedalo by Quayola & Sinigaglia is a collection of custom developed vvvv engines to generate, exchange and map data …
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Creative coding: coding as artistic tool
04/09/13Dutch only: Met de opkomst van creative coding, een verzamelnaam voor schetsmatige, versimpelde of visuele programmeeromgevingen, is het werken …
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Wired: Hacking meets clubbing with the ‘algorave’
04/09/13Complex rhythms emerge, fall away, then come back stronger, energising the crowd. Cárdenas is completely lost in the music. …
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Algorave: coding & clubbing, surely not?
04/09/13Events like Algorave highlight that by making more people creators through programming, we don’t just get new technical creations, …
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Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
26/08/13Best-selling author and technology visionary Douglas Rushkoff offers his insights and perspectives on humanity’s role in the bright new …
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Arduino
19/08/13Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, …
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Creative Applications
19/08/13CreativeApplications.Net reports innovation and catalogues projects, tools and platforms at the intersection of art, media and technology.
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Cinder
19/08/13Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.
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Organic Forms and Digital Visions. Interview Sougwen Chung
07/08/13Sougwen Chung is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores transitional edges; where the mark-made-by-hand meets the mark-made-by-machine.
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openFrameworks
04/08/13openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive …
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New Aesthetic, New Anxieties
04/08/13New Aesthetic New Anxieties is the result of a five day Book Sprint organized by Michelle Kasprzak and led by Adam …
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Processing
04/08/13Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the …
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The Art of Creative Coding
04/08/13Programming plays a huge role in the world that surrounds us, and though its uses are often purely functional, …
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Mapping the Beginnings of Computer-generated Art in the Netherlands
04/08/13This paper (Darko Fritz, 2011) presents a mapping of the field within interdisciplinary research that encompasses fine arts, music, …
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A Touch Of Code
04/08/13Innovative designers are creating compelling atmospheres and interactive experiences by merging hardware and software with architecture and design.
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HOLO Magazine Preorder
04/08/13A semiannual periodical exploring the creative intersection of art, science and technology, HOLO gets up close.
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Studio Sketchpad
18/07/13Studio Sketchpad aims to be an open studio for individuals learning how to sketch beautiful code on the web …
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Processing.js
18/07/13Processing.js is the sister project of the popular Processing visual programming language, designed for the web. Processing.js makes your …
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School For Poetic Computation
15/07/13Where would you go to learn creative coding? The recently set up School For Poetic Computation in New York.
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Book & Software: Prototyping Interfaces with VVVV
15/07/13Not too long ago, the outcomes of a design process used to be in the form of a static …
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Nature of Code
15/07/13How can we capture the unpredictable evolutionary and emergent properties of nature in software? How can understanding the mathematical …
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NODE13 – Forum for Digital Arts, Documentary
15/07/13NODE is a biannual reunion of vvvv developers, users, artists and activists. It is an international platform, with talks, …
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Sense/Stage
15/07/13Research-creation project to develop small, low cost and low power wireless sensor hardware together with software infrastructure, specifically for …
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Hello World! Processing
15/07/13Hello World! Processing is a documentary on creative coding that explores the role that ideas such as process, experimentation …
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Clouds: Beta
15/07/13Clouds is a computational documentary featuring hackers and media artists in dialogue about code, culture and the future of …
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Lecture Casey Reas: The Soft Studio – at Resonate
15/07/13Casey Reas is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles. He has exhibited, screened, and performed his work …
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