Anna Carreras: Ljudmila’s artist-in-residency and ‘collaging with code’ workshop.

Anna Carreras (1979) is a Barcelona-based creative coder and digital artist interested in the complexity that emerges from simple behaviors. In her work, she uses generative algorithms, creative code, and interactive technology as a means of communication and experience generator. She develops interactive installations to explore new emerging narratives encouraging the audience to participate and promote their collaboration. 

She is currenetly Ljudmila’s On-the-Fly artist-in-residency. 
The project she is developing as part of the residency deals with complex systems that lie on a continuum between regularity and chaos, between order and disorder. Her visual and sonic exploration of balance and homeostasis is inspired by early ideas of cybernetics. 
The proyect aims at creating a live coded performance and installation based on visual and physical interfaces. Her installation will allow visitors to participate in live coding through an interface, a hacked typewriter, and to generate rhythm, sounds and visuals with the machine. The project explores, on the one hand, how visual elements and algorithms generate machine language, and, on the other hand, how machine sounds can be visually represented.

As part of her residency she organized the workshop ‘Collaging with Code’, which took place on the 29th of March in osmo/za (Ljubljana). During the workshop she provided participants with the basics of coding in Processing. She then introduced her audience to collage techniques in combination with code, to create unique dynamic graphics and an unlimited number of variations

 

Anna will share the results of her research in the form of open-source software libraries and documentation on GitHub for other artists or creators to use, build on and explore further.

 

The event was co-organized by @ljudmilalab and co-funded by the @creative.eu program.

Roger Pibernat: Research Residency and ‘Keyboard Acrobatics’ Workshop

Roger Pibernat is a self-taught illustrator, musician and programmer, who constantly explores new artistic expressions and fields of knowledge. He started using SuperCollider in 2011 and has since performed with the Barcelona Laptop Orchestra. Roger is co-founder of the art collective , where he makes electroacoustic instruments, develops digital and interactive installations and creates audiovisual performances. He is an active member of the growing live coding community in Barcelona.

Roger is currently part of Ljudmila’s research residency and he is developing a series of tools that will help speed up coding in SuperCollider and make it easier for beginners. During his residency, Roger is developing techniques for code input, editing, organization, setup, and navigation workflows in live coding perfomances with SuperCollider. His idea is to create a technical guide for playing the instrument – the code in SuperCollider – just like a documentation on playing techniques for analog instruments is made. Roger’s goal for the proposed SuperCollider code is to conform as much as possible to the live coding manifesto, especially in points regarding the insight into algorithms and performer’s mindset, and the ability to produce expressive music.

As part  of his residency Roger organized the ‘Keyboard Acrobatics’ Workshop: in the first part of his workshop, that took place on the 23rd of March, he introduced the participants to the live coding tools he has been developing during his residency at osmo/za. 
For the second part of the workshop he organized a ‘From Scratch: live coding session’, where the participants experimented with the tools and knowledge provided and performed through the From Scratch format.

The event was co-organized by @ljudmilalab and co-funded by the @creative.eu program.

"What did 10 years of Algorave teach us about live coding?"

From the first live coding performances, which often took place in experimental or academic computer music concert settings, Algorave emerged to bring live coding into the night clubs for people to dance to. Now Algorave is 10 years…

ALGORITHMIC ART ASSEMBLY (AAA) performances available

For those of you who couldn’t be there or missed the streaming session, the Algorithmic Art Assembly (AAA) was coorganized by On-The-Fly and Mutek ES, and took place on March 12th in Hangar, and via streaming from San Francisco. The event kicked off at. 8.30pm with a streaming session with AAA artists from San Francisco presenting a new interactive work especially produced for the AAA. The live session started at 10pm in Hangar’s Ricson Room, where PC Music’s Lil Data and local artists Eloi el bon, Alicia Champlin and QBRNTHSS performend while streaming for AAA San Francisco. 

Watch the full performance here

On-The-Fly Hackaton at Vetrinjski Dvor, Slovenia

On March 19th and 20th from 10am to 8pm, Hangar will host the On-the-Fly Hack Lab

In the first week of March 2022, six hackers joined the Ljudmila On-The-Fly hackaton at Vetrinjski Dvor in Maribor, Slovenia. 

The project they were hacking …

VIU 2022: Live Coding Meeting

From March 24 to 27, the collective in residence Toplap and On-the-Fly co-organize the VIU Festival, the annual live coding session in Barcelona, which in its fourth edition counts with Leonardo Foletto and Jack Armitage, as international guest artists…