NODE+CODE #21 – On The Move
Movement as a circulation of bodies, code, and memory across different contexts
For NODE+CODE #21, under the theme on the move, we will explore how artistic practices engage with movement as a circulation of bodies, code, and memory across different contexts. This evening invites us to consider how performances persist as afterimages and material remains, how code practices shift through adoption, adaptation, and refusal, and how these movements create new forms of life, work, and relation.
Contributors
Two lovely contributors will give us insight into their work this time around:
From Tokyo, Naoto presents a practice that emerges from moments when performance and installation have ended, yet traces linger. Afterimages of pixels, sweat on the floor, or the residue of a meeting link without a host become material to work with. By collecting and reactivating these ephemeral and semi-permanent artifacts, Naoto gives them a new life — whether as a screen recording turned into a YouTube video, a spontaneous drawing layered over childhood paintings, or a memory of casual movement recast as a collectible card.
From Berlin, Kit contributes Code Work, a lecture-performance that reflects on the adoption, adaptation, and refusal of software practices in professional and everyday contexts. Rather than treating code as neutral infrastructure, Kit examines the ways it shapes and is shaped by systems of labor, creativity, and resistance.
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 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, eat free, delicious soup with us, have a chat and enjoy the evening!
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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