Live coding celebrates the ephemerality of definition itself
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On 25 Dec 2015, at 16:13, Zoe C Berger <zoecberger_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to this group and coding in general.
>
> I'm an artist using live code as artistic medium. I'm still figuring a lot of things out. I hope you don't mind my eavesdropping until I know a little bit more. It's nice to hear others views on this
>
> Also, merry merry , ect ...
>
> Zoe
>
>> On Dec 25, 2015, at 9:46 AM, Tristan Strange <tristan.strange_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It warms my cockles to see people thinking about live code on
>> Christmas day... I've been told I'm not to think about it and am
>> sneaking this response in!
>>
>> Really nice to see some sentences that'll stand up to a prod or two!
>>
>> Even the cats definition isn't as bad as some on the list....
>>
>>> On 25 December 2015 at 14:00, David Griffiths <dave_at_pawfal.org> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>> On 24/12/15 21:39, alex wrote:
>>>> I'm going to have to bite..
>>>>
>>>>> On 24 December 2015 at 19:25, David Barbour <dmbarbour_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Live coding is using a powerful language as an HCI. This is opposed to
>>>>> using application specific language (predefined forms or widgets, a weak
>>>>> CLI language, etc.) that hinder flexible expression or abstraction.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think it's worth separating live coding from its application in
>>>>> performance and music. With augmented reality, and internet of things, or
>>>>> semantic webs, we could see a much wider applications.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah we wouldn't want to see such a passing, limited interest topic
>>>> such as "music" seen in the same light as these three much more
>>>> important, far sighted and serious applications! It's not as though
>>>> music is woven into just about every human ritual or anything like
>>>> that.
>>>
>>> While music may or may not be a good application of livecoding 'as a
>>> tool' - it even might be the case that computation *is* music, and by
>>> experiencing it's construction by a performer, we may be able to learn
>>> something about the algorithmic world we live in.
>>>
>>> In a similar way, livecoding also has potential to expose clearly a
>>> secret aspect of technology - the way it's pursued in a fumbling, zigzag
>>> approach with many restarts - rather than the smooth, planned series of
>>> 'innovations' that people who want us to invest in their companies would
>>> like us to believe.
>>>
>>> Nice to be discussing this stuff here again :)
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> dave
>>>
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