Reflections On Teaching Live Coding
Description
Live coding, the act of performing music and visuals live and transparently on stage for an audience, has matured into a fully fledged practice over the past several years, becoming a legitimate music and art scene leading to coverage in The New York Times, The Financial Times, and The Guardian.
Four acclaimed live coding practitioners and collaborators of the New York City scene, of diverse backgrounds and methodologies, will discuss and reflect on how live coding is changing notions of teaching “code.” By combining code with performance, by showing one’s work live, programming can be both demystified, and also packed with artistic license.
Completely divorced from capitalist expectations of technology, and even from a “creative technology” mindset that so often is intertwined with the advertising industry, live coding and “algoraves” have not only built an inviting environment to artists who might otherwise have worked with technology, but have been particularly suited to the challenges of teaching and performing virtually during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Timetable
2 mins Introductions 10 mins Live Coding As Educational Form 10 mins Virtual Teaching and Performing 8 mins Questions
Takeaway
Audience members will explore how technological performance can alter an educational experience, how platforms can be suited to virtual teaching, learn about latest movements, practices, and languages in live coding, and hear about personal reflections on teaching coding in a completely new way. We look forward to all questions.
Abstract
Live coding, the act of performing music and visuals live and transparently on stage for an audience, has matured into a fully fledged practice over the past several years, becoming a legitimate music and art scene leading to coverage in The New York Times, The Financial Times, and The Guardian.
Four acclaimed live coding practitioners and collaborators of the New York City scene, of diverse backgrounds and methodologies, will discuss and reflect on how live coding is changing notions of teaching “code.” By combining code with performance, by showing one’s work live, programming can be both demystified, and also packed with artistic license.
Completely divorced from capitalist expectations of technology, and even from a “creative technology” mindset that so often is intertwined with the advertising industry, live coding and “algoraves” have not only built an inviting environment to artists who might otherwise have worked with technology, but have been particularly suited to the challenges of teaching and performing virtually during the COVID-19 Pandemic.