Newsletter 60
What's up everybody!
We're happy have you back with us. We have some exciting soft announcements and dates to transmit to you. So let's get to that first, shall we?
On the 15th of November, we will be presenting to you Concept Null 2025. We will have a meetup during the day in our usual style (along with a special guest) and an evening of performances, all in the amazing space that is Dance Limerick! We will send out a full program along with ticket links in the next week, so keep an eye out for that.
We also have a super exciting, week-long, FLINTA soundsystem-building workshop with Synthesis Her for Ireland Design Week 2025 coming up the week after so we will be sending you more details and tickets on that next week too!
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Live Coding _a user's manual
The first comprehensive introduction to the origins, aspirations, and evolution of live coding.
Performative, improvised, on the fly: live coding is about how people interact with the world and each other via code. In the last few decades, live coding has emerged as a dynamic creative practice, gaining attention across cultural and technical fieldsâfrom music and the visual arts to computer science. Live Coding: A User's Manual is the first comprehensive introduction to the practice and a broader cultural commentary on the potential for live coding to open up deeper questions about contemporary cultural production and computational culture. This multiauthored bookâby artists and musicians, software designers, and researchersâprovides a practice-focused account of the origins, aspirations, and evolution of live coding, including expositions from a wide range of live coding practitioners. In a more conceptual register, the authors consider liveness, temporality, and knowledge in relation to live coding, alongside speculating on the practice's future forms.
The Critical Makers Reader. (Un)learning Technology
A decade ago many gushed at the possibilities of 3D printers and other DIY tech. Today makers are increasingly shaking off their initial blind enthusiasm to numerically control everything, rediscovering an interest in sociocultural histories and futures and waking up to the environmental and economic implications of digital machines that transform materials. An accumulation of critique has collectively registered that no tool, service, or software is good, bad, or neutralâor even free for that matter. Weâve arrived at a crossroads, where a reflective pause coincides with new critical initiatives emerging across disciplines. What was making? What is making? What could making become? And what about unmaking? The Critical Makers Reader features an array of practitioners and scholars who address these questions. Together, they tackle issues of technological making and its intersections with (un)learning, art and design, institutionalization, social critique, community organizing, collaboration, activism, urban regeneration, social inequality, and the environmental crisis.