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4:45 PM-5:45 PM, AEST
Spaces, Language, Encoding
Panel Discussion | An international panel explores language, space, culture and how live coding can challenge established norms
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RMIT University, Melbourne
- Price free with registration
- Part of series: THE LIVING CODE
The Hyperspace Live Coding Festival will kick off with a short introduction by curator Christopher Taudt and the organising team, welcoming artists and guests. An international panel will launch a discussion to explore questions of language, spaces, cultural practice and how live coding can be used to question established norms. In live coding, a (programming) language is not only a tool but also an important means of expression. Artists who work with code constantly navigate the intersections of computer science, cultural traditions, and human languages. This is reflected both in the wide variety of programming languages available and in the many artistic forms that come together in live coding, including music, visual art, language, dance, and poetry.
Taking the title “Spaces, Language, Encoding”, international and local artists will ask questions such as:
- What would be needed in order to create new spaces with abstractions, languages, encodings, code and non-english programming languages?
- How human are algorithms and patterns? How strongly are they related to human cultures and cultural histories?
- Do programming languages and digital utopias give us the chance to find new ways of expression which can be free from cultural traditions and explore new frontiers?
- Is there a digital colonialism in place imposed by certain tools and corporate-infused practices of the present-day internet?
Panelists
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Alexandra Cárdenas, an artist from Bogota, Colombia, based in Berlin, Germany, seamlessly weaves composition, programming, and improvisation in her live coding practice, crafting experimental electronic music. Fueled by a fascination with the algorithmic behavior of music, her journey explores the boundless possibilities of musicality within code.
Fearlessly pushing boundaries, Alexandra invites audiences to probe the symbiotic relationship between technology and music. Her mission extends to fostering an inclusive world where technical and artistic education is accessible, cultivating a utopian landscape where code becomes a universal language of creative expression.
As a core global Live Coding and Algorave community member, Alexandra co-founded various TOPLAP nodes worldwide, including Toplap Mexico and Toplap Berlin. Teaching and performing worldwide with the free, libre, and open-source live coding languages SuperCollider and TidalCycles, she draws from a diverse educational background in composition, mathematics, and classical guitar studies, culminating in a Master’s Degree in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the Universität der Künste in Berlin.
Beyond her groundbreaking live coding contributions, Alexandra is deeply committed to empowering women in digital creativity. As a fervent advocate for gender diversity, she co-founded Livecodera, a transnational collective nurturing the skills of women-identifying live coders. Through impactful presentations and enthralling performances, she inspires women worldwide, encouraging them to harness the power of creativity and digital technologies, unlocking their potential and reshaping their environments. -
Germany-based Flor de Fuego is a digital-craft artist who primarily works with programming and live coding to create performative experiences.
Her research explores concepts such as the body, space, code, and the chaos-cosmos. She has participated in several international festivals across Europe and the Americas, both individually and in collaboration with other artists.
Flor de Fuego is actively involved in the live coding community. She is also an active community collaborator for Hydra, a live coding browser-based software developed by Olivia Jack. -
Hayden Ryan is a Yuin-Walbanja sound artist and scholar from the south east coast of New South Wales, currently residing in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). His sound work explores Indigenous identities, histories and relationships with place through spatial audio, field recording, signal-processing and acoustics.
Hayden is a graduate of New York University’s Master of Music in Music Technology (2022-24); a 2025 Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) resident; currently a Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University (PhD; Associate Lecturer); and Creative Producer in First Nations Programming at Liquid Architecture . His PhD research investigates how sonic practice and acoustic space influence ways of understanding the environment, history, law and positionality within Indigenous cultures - blending signal-processing, (psycho)acoustics and spatial audio with Indigenous research methods to encapsulate the nuances between First Peoples and sound.
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“harte echtzeit” (HE) is the artistic project of scientist Christopher Taudt, who lives and works in Naarm, Australia. He works predominantly with algorithms, scientific data and live coding.
HE's interest is in the interplay of abstract sounds and concrete, rhythmic structures. His music is driven by scientific data which seems to have no history or imagination on a human scale but rather on larger more complex scales in space and time.
He co-founded futur AAA live coding festival (Germany) and the newly established Live Coders Naarm collective. Besides his artistic work, he organizes algoraves, workshops and other events. -
Alex McLean is a musician and independent, UKRI-funded researcher working on pattern-based music, textiles and dance.
He has pushed forward the ‘live coding’ approach to algorithmic music over the past two decades, including co-creating the popular live coding environments Strudel and TidalCycles, and the worldwide Algorave movement for algorithmic dance music. He is based in Sheffield where he collaborates on Sheffield Pattern Club and the Alpaca festival of algorithmic patterns.
He has performed widely, including at sonar, Glastonbury, no bounds, transmediale and ars electronica festivals. https://slab.org/
Location
Building 12, BlackBox Multimedia Space (12.02.103)
124 La Trobe St
CBD
Melbourne 3000
Australia
