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/* vivo */ musings
So much to think about after the /* vivo */ festival, how livecoding is moving on, becoming more self critical as well as gender balanced. The first signs of this was the focus of the festival being almost entirely philosophical rather than technical. Previous meetings of this nature have involved a fair dose of tech…
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Mexican livecoding style
At only around 2 years old, the Mexican livecoding scene is pretty advanced. Here are images of (I think) all of the performances at /*vivo*/ (Simposio Internacional de Música y Código 2012) in Mexico City, which included lots of processing, fluxus, pure data and ATMEL processor bithop along with supercollider and plenty of non-digital techniques…
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Livecoding at Mozilla Fest
A very friendly Mozilla festival gig! (source) Beware of the TOPLAP gang:
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Hapstar graphs in the wild
Some examples of graphs that scientists have created and published using Hapstar, all these images were taken from the papers that cite the hapstar publication, with links to them below. I think the range of representations of this genetic information indicate some exciting new directions we can take the software in. There are also some…
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Evolvable hardware
I’m modding a robot toy for the next Spork Factory experiment, the chassis provides twin motor driven wheels and I’m replacing it’s brains with a circuit based on the ATtiny85 for running the results of the genetic algorithm, and a pair of light dependant resistors for ‘seeing’ with. Here’s the circuit (made in about 20…
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Spork factory
A system for creating an abundance of useless software for tiny devices. Spork Factory evolves programs that run on Atmel processors – the same make as found on the Arduino, in this case the ATtiny85 – a £2.50 8 pin 8bit CPU. I’m currently simply using a piezo speaker as an output and evolving programs…
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Public perceptions of programming…
I’ve recently been collecting stupid images from major news websites reporting on stories involving programming, some examples: Check out this disembodied hand:
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Making time
Time, the ever baffling one directional mystery. A lot of it has been spent between the members of slub on ways to synchronise multiple machines to share a simple beat, sometimes attempting industrial strength solutions but somehow the longest standing approach we always come back to for our various ad-hoc software remains to be a…
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scheme bricks 2
A new version of scheme bricks is under way, planned to be tested out with slub on the Mozilla Fest Party, then taken across the Atlantic for some more livecoding action in Mexico City! New things include blocks with depth – cosmetic for the moment, but I plan to prototype some new ideas based on…
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Aniziz and Zizim
The online part of the borrowed scenery project is an experiment in geotagging plants and plant related locations via a website/app called Zizim (the compass) combined with a multiplayer online game called Aniziz (the soil) where you can interact with the plants people have found. Having spent the last couple of months developing them, they…