Where: Hybrid, Online/NewBridge Cinema Room
Booking: Book Here, Free to Primary / Kaleidoscope Members
Join The NewBridge Project for this special ‘DIY Digital’ x Kaleidoscope Network workshop with Shelly Knotts. Get to grips with the practice of live coding – a way of performing which involves writing code on stage to make live music and video!
Prompt 6pm start with a break in the middle
Kicking off this Autumn’s DIY Digital programme, we bring to you a special Code Club x Kaleidoscope Network double bill!
In the session Shelly Knotts will introduce the practice of live coding – a way of performing which involves writing code on stage to make live music and video – and share observations from the wild of performing with and through algorithms. She’ll discuss embracing error and failure as an integral part of the practice, and how the live coding scene embodies punk and DIY values in the algorithmic age. Knotts is interested in the politics of performatively failing in the context of a highly technologically driven practice, and uses her practice to playfully interrogate the interaction between humans, data and algorithms in the real world.
In the second half of the session Shelly will introduce Hydra – a beginner friendly tool for making live video. We will use code in an explorative way, embrace error and make our own video improvisations. No prior coding knowledge required!
This session will take place in person at NewBridge and will also be available online via Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent out on the day of the event. Tickets are free for members and £3 for non-members. Limited availability so book now to avoid disappointment!
DIY Digital is a new strand of Practice Makes Practice, funded by North East Combined Authority and supported by Newcastle Cultural Investment Fund. This session also forms part of the Kaleidoscope Network.
Lead image by Marcin Sz.
Access: If you have any access requirements that you'd like to discuss, or if there's anything we can do to make this event more accessible for you, please email raghavi@weareprimary.org.
Kaleidoscope Network:
This event has been organised by The NewBridge Project for the Kaleidoscope Network, a collaboration between Eastside Projects (Birmingham), Primary (Nottingham), Spike Island (Bristol), The NewBridge Project (Newcastle) and Bloc Projects (Sheffield). Primary residents and members are automatically part of the Kaleidoscope Network and can attend selected events programmed by each partner for free.
