Sunday, May 22, 2022
The workshop was developed around the concept of digital collage, mixing visuals, sounds and code. During the sessions, two programming languages for artists were reviewed.
Session 1
Presentation of the Estuary platform and introduction to CineCer0 for live playback and editing of video files, still images and text for the web. At the end of the workshop, there was a group activity on the https://estuary.mcmaster.ca/ platform, a networked performance platform.
Presented by :
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Jessica A. Rodríguez
Bio Multimedia artist, designer and researcher. She is currently studying a doctorate program in Communications, New Media, & Cultural Studies at McMaster. Her practice and research projects focus on audiovisual practices such as visual music, electronic literature, video experimentation, sound art, visualization/sonification, live coding, among others, collaborating with composers, writers, designers, and other visual artists.……
Session 2
Live coding + E-lit, creative possibilities of code. During the first half hour, Mario Guzman presented his work with code. Artist Kofi Oduro used the remaining time for his presentation. In his online workshop, participants saw how code can be used in the musical, performative and literary arts. Using tools such as livecodingYoutube, Hydra, Inverse.website and Sonic Pi to name a few. They saw how expressive and creative code is, while having the benefit of testing how it can be used in a collaborative setting. Participants found that writing and improvising code can lead to varied outcomes musically, as well as using networked elements to their advantage when writing or producing work.
Presented by :
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Mario Guzmán
I am a mexican researcher, experimental writer and new media artist merging language with audiovisual phenomena, web development, electronic art, algorithmic literature, and robotics. In my work, I explore the communication between human and non-human agents, robot-human interaction, and different methods to encode perception and narrative through technology. I want to bring code, storytelling, and…
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Kofi Oduro (Illestpreacha)
Bio My artistic practice is an observation of the world around us, that I then put into artworks for others to relate to or disagree with. Through Videography, Poetry and Creative Coding, I try to highlight the realms of human performance and the human mind in different scenarios. These situations can be described as social,……
