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Tag: Livecoding

  • Picademy Exeter and Future Thinking for Social Living

    Last week I had the chance to help out the Raspberry Pi foundation at their Picademy in Exeter. It was good to meet up with Sam Aaron again to talk livecoding on Pis, and also see how they run these events. They are designed for local teachers to get more confident with computers, programming and…

  • Livecoding at Foam Kernow

    Clip of a small and extremely fun livecoding jam at foam kernow alongside Federico Reuben and Francesca Sargent:

  • Livecoding UAVs for environmental research

    Some screenshots of the UAV livecoding visual programming language. Weather being on our side, we’re planning some test flights later this week! The first program uses GPS to take photos with an overlap of 50% at 300 metres altitude, based on the vertical camera angle as reported from the device. It assumes the the flight…

  • Coding with threads: Frame loom

    After writing the 4 shaft loom simulation the next job was to try weaving the structures with real threads. Would I be able to replicate the predicted patterns and structures? Ellen warned me that the meander weave would result in unstable fabric, but it would depend on the nature of the material used so was…

  • Unravelling technology in Copenhagen

    Last week the weavingcodes/codingweaves project started with a trip to Denmark, our first stop was the Centre for Textiles Research in Copenhagen where we presented the project and gathered as much feedback as possible right at the beginning. The CTR was introduced to us by Eva Andersson Strand, and is an interdisciplinary centre which focuses…

  • Thinking outside of the screen (#1)

    I’m starting a new exploratory project to build a screen-less programming language based on two needs: A difficulty with teaching kids programming in my CodeClub where they become lost ‘in the screen’. It’s a challenge (for any of us really but for children particularly) to disengage and think differently – e.g. to draw a diagram…

  • New Hardware

    A Harris, 4 shaft table loom:

  • Many languages: Düsseldorf Institute for Music and Media Seminar

    Last week was my first official seminar at the

  • Algorave at EAVI night in New Cross

    A recording of slub’s set from the EAVI night last week, put on by the group by the same name at Goldsmiths. Sometimes livecoding ‘just works’ – this was one of those times. I’ve uploaded some more photographic evidence here.

  • slub at Kunsthal Aarhus

    Last week Alex and I took to the road on another slub mini-tour starting in Denmark at the Kunsthal Aarhus where we ran a livecoding workshop and performed at the opening of the Aarhus Filmfestival. The Kunsthal gallery was exhbiting “Systemics #2: As we may think (or, the next world library)” with work by Florian…