just an observation for what it's worth:
although I didn't see the presentation, what you call the 'return of the
virtuosic' does not preclude the social. for instance, you could look at
paolo virno's writing for a discussion of how virtuosity and performance are
close to politics. virno is interested in performance/communication without
a script, or rather, with a script that is dynamic. this seems to work well
in relation to live-coding, to my mind at least.
>
> I wanted to clarify our panel position in regard to live
> coding/TOPLAP; it's possibly not as extreme as Alex suggests - we
> wanted to make a transition from live coding as technique (which can
> be critiqued when focused on as technique with arguments such as the
> return of the virtuosic or code/guitar solo), into what we could now
> term life coding (or as i see in another thread from Julian - alive
> coding) - with the equal overarching question of what is life (a
> machinery for living calling up vast 20C questions of economies) or
> for that matter code - questions entertained using the descriptive
> means which can be agreed upon as software. I think that could begin a
> definition of life coding which I don't think denies or rejects TOPLAP
> - perhaps it needed to be made plainer that TOPLAP embraces a wider
> calling (?) than the technical use of moderate to high level coding
> within contemporary languages in a determined cultural context. And
> yes the social. That's what we were trying to do with plenum at
> limehouse. Life coding is online in note form at:
>
> http://www.1010.co.uk/life_coding.html
>
> I'm trying to work up as an introduction to our xxxxx_reader
> (published in association with Mute mid July) the topic of life coding
> in relation to framing, Pynchon, mechanism and the kitchen sink and
> can post progress if there's interest. At the same time we're
> programming (in the old sense) an xxxxx seminar module for piksel
> (norway) in mid-october attempting to interface this and the xxxxx
> thematics with a discussion of open hardware. Any presentation
> proposals would be great!
>
> best wishes
> Martin
>
> http://1010.co.uk
> http://xxxxx.1010.co.uk
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