Talk:ManifestoDraft
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Manifesto discussion
After discussion with Melody, I've just reverted a change. It was great to see an edit after so many years (I recently cleaned up the wiki and made it editable again..), but some key points were missing in the edit. I did appreciate the effort to clean it up, make it snappier.. I don't really agree with many points of the manifesto at this point. Maybe we need to admit this is a bit of a historical document and start again with a v2? See also:
- Hacking choreography manifesto: https://web.archive.org/web/20150601145330/http://blog.sicchio.com/?p=178
- Chapter by Haworth which discusses the evolution of the manifesto: https://zenodo.org/record/1323557
Yaxu (talk) 09:45, 2 September 2020 (BST)
Hello, the edit was made by me in an attempt to bury the ideology that screen sharing code is a necessity for live coding. Whilst editing the manifesto was a somewhat performative act, if there is going to be a "rules of engagement" style policing of how live coding is done (which there really should not be), it should stress inclusion and encouragement rather than exclusion. The idea of introducing more pressure to a performance through the insistence of sharing code is daunting, specifically for newcomers, and also completely ridiculous. In such an experimental and upcoming scene, an artist should not be told how to perform, you should not instruct a creative performer on what is correct and incorrect to do in their performance, rather individual interpretation of the art form should be welcomed, and refusal to do so will continue to facilitate the relegation of live coding as an art form to clickbait gimmick headlines, all essentially saying "The Matrix on Ecstasy".
Delete all insistence on screen sharing, allow performers to decide what they do, let the performance be about the art and the sound, not the code. Thanks ArthurWilson (talk) 12:58, 7 September 2020 (BST)