NODE+CODE #21 – On The Move
Movement as a circulation of bodies, code, and memory across different contexts
The next NODE+CODE meetup will host two artists and creative coders who are moving code, bodies, and memory across different frameworks, platforms and contexts. By presenting their work Naoto Hieda and Kit Kuksenok invite us to consider how coding practices shift through adoption, adaptation, and refusal, and how these movements create new forms of relationships, collaboration and life in a post-digital world.
Contributors
Japanese creative coder, artist and PhD researcher Naoto Hieda will share how his work with code informed his formal and poetic approach to all means of contemporary expression – from browsers to paper drawings: “Afterimage of the pixels, sweat and saliva on the laminate floor, meeting link without the host – when a live installation-performance-whatsoever ends, ephemeral and (semi-)permanent artifacts linger in the space. As an artist with neurodiversity/-queerness, my practice lies in collecting and giving a new life to what I left – screen recording of a live-coded improvisation becomes a YouTube link, a drawing of the trees I spontaneously danced for gets superimposed on my childhood painting or a memory of a meaningless movement turning the ashtray while having a conversation with a friend on a rooftop bar becomes a collectible card.”
Kit Kuksenok is an artist, writer, and coder. Since first learning to code in 2002, they have worked as a systems integrator, web developer, software engineer, data analyst, and lecturer in computer science. They hold a MSci (2014) and PhD (2016) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington (Seattle). The work on code work started as ethnographic investigation of programing practices in oceanography research as part of their PhD, exploring adoption and adaptation. Since then, Kit has explored, through images and movement, the sociality of body data, its capacity for betrayal, and refusal practices.contributes “Code Work”, a lecture-performance that reflects on the adoption, adaptation, and refusal of software practices in professional and everyday contexts.
Together, these two contributions open up on the move as a theme of what travels, transforms, or resists capture — whether a trace of a performance, a fragment of memory, or a piece of software practice.
Naoto will also host an introduction workshop on Live Coding with Hydra the following day! Find more info here!
Program
We’ll open the doors at 18:30, allowing us all to get comfortable and start at 19:00 with the presentations from our speakers.
Join us at Berliner Straße 60, enjoy a free, delicious soup with us and have a chat with a fantastic community!
Contributors
Naoto Hieda
Cologne, Germany
naotohieda.comNaoto Hieda (they) is a media artist from Japan living in Germany with a background in engineering (B.Eng. at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan and M.Eng. at McGill University, Canada). Naoto is currently studying at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany and works internationally for theater productions and in the visual arts. In their artistic work, they question the productive qualities of coding and speculates on new forms, post-coding through neurodiversity and live coding.
Kit Kuksenok
Berlin
https://xnze.ro/Kit Kuksenok (they/it/es) is based in Berlin and has done “code work,” in one way or another, for ~20 years. They hold a MSci (2014) and PhD (2016) in Computer Science and Engineering, and currently work at the Processing Foundation. Their ongoing independent research practice uses images and participatory performance to investigate topics of adoption, adaptation, and refusal of technologies in daily life.
And what else will happen?
With this meetup season we will dive into the community – and, of course, we will again serve drinks and a yummy soup for free!
Just come by or RSVP (for better planning) here!
What is NODE+CODE?
Since 2014, the meetup invites creatives, designers, artists, coders and anyone else interested to a series of events with changing locations and thematic focuses – all related to working with code in design and the arts. We want to build a community of people interested in the creative and critical application of technology in Frankfurt and Rhein-Main.
Open Call
Be part of it and share your projects, challenges and questions with the community in one of our next meetups:
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Funding
The project is funded in the program “Promotion of Cultural and Creative Industries Institutions” by the Hessian Ministry of Economy, Energy, Transport, Housing and Rural Affairs.
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