Tag: algorithmic literacy
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Coding is Fun
West Cornwall’s CodeClub team (Glen Pike and I) bring you the next stage at dBs Music:
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Many languages: Düsseldorf Institute for Music and Media Seminar
Last week was my first official seminar at the
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Cornwall “Let’s Get Digital” presentation
Here’s a presentation I gave at the end of last year at a Creative Skills Cornwall meeting at Falmouth University. I introduced the problems of a growing producer/consumer digital divide – the need for more public discourse in the politics of technology and how free software, codeclub, livecoding, algorithmic weaving and sonic bikes can indicate…
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Some post-Snowden thoughts
One of the most interesting outcomes of the the Snowden revelations for me are that they have exposed to the light of day an awful lot about how different groups of people relate to technology and authority. There are the side that worries about the internet becoming the “worst tool of human oppression in all…
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Algorave in Wired UK Magazine
Great to see algorave featured in Wired, a review of our last Stubnitz gig, (lots of shots of Al Jazari and Scheme Bricks) and an interview with Alexandra Cardenas. Read the full page article here.
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Slub at the Deershed festival
Deershed is a music festival designed to accommodate families with lots of activities for children. Part of this year’s festival was a Machines Tent, including Lego robot building, Mechano constructions, 3D printing and computer games. Slub’s daily routine in the Machines Tent started by setting up the Al Jazari gamepad livecoding installation, a couple of…
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Deershed Festival, Sonic Bike Lab, Fascinate Festival
Preparations for a busy summer, new Al Jazari installation gamepads on the production line: This weekend Alex and I are off to the Deershed Festival in Yorkshire to bring slub technology to the younger generation. We’ll be livecoding algorave, teaching scratch programming on Raspberry Pis and running an Al Jazari installation in between. Then onwards…
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A fluxus workshop plan
I’ve been getting some emails asking for course notes for fluxus workshops, I don’t really have anything as structured as that but I thought it would be good to document something here. I usually pretty much follow the first part of the fluxus manual pretty closely, trying to flip between visually playful parts and programming…
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Codeclub and Bioinformatics
I’m swatting up on my scratch skills for the first codeclub at Troon Primary School in Cambourne tomorrow afternoon! It’s exciting to finally head to the frontlines of algorithmic literacy in education. Also on Wednesday I present at talk about FoAM and cross-disciplinary working at Exeter University’s Biomedical Informatics Hub, I’ll be talking about Borrowed…
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Baltan Laboratories FaceSponge workshop
This is a very late report on a workshop on Facebook livecoding/hacking we gave at Baltan Laboratories in Eindhoven in May. We were invited us to run a workshop based on Naked on Pluto as part of their Tools Series: The Tools Series is a series of Baltan Sessions that examines the complex and changing…