Live Coding Alternatives Workshop call. Call for position papers and performances as part of Critical Alternatives, 5th Decennial Aarhus Conference, 17 or 18 August 2015, Aarhus University, Denmark.
http://www.livecodenetwork.org/live-coding-alternatives/
Organizers:
Alan Blackwell, Reader in Interdisciplinary Design, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK); Emma Cocker, Reader in Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University (UK); Geoff Cox, Associate Professor, Participatory IT research centre, Aarhus University (DK)
Live
Coding Alternatives
is an interdisciplinary workshop (‘live laboratory’) for testing and exploring
live coding as a creative, aesthetic and potentially political practice for
constructing ‘critical alternatives’ within both computing and everyday life.
The workshop explores this emergent field and aims to open up deeper critical
questions about contemporary cultural production and computational culture. It
is structured around live research practices of writing, presentation and
performance, collaboratively interrogated through discussion, and the
development of critical frameworks that reflect the live coding dynamic. Live
Coding Alternatives
emphasizes the relation of live coding to the cultivation of ‘alternative’,
potentially subversive, ways of operating within contemporary culture. In
addition the workshop explores the alternative possibilities offered by live
coding practice as able in itself to generate epistemic claims through software
development, improvised live performance and ‘artistic research’. The intention
is not only to propose how live coding transforms code and coding practice but
to investigate the transformational potential inherent within the process of
live coding itself. We ask what possibilities for change and action does the
practice of live coding suggest? What alternative ways of ‘being operative’ are
evoked? We welcome
analytical, theoretical and reflective papers from diverse disciplines but
especially want to encourage expanded notions of live coding in the form of
performances and alternative presentation modes.
Initial
areas of interest might include:
* Live coding and performance writing,
interplay of text and code, experimental notation practices
* Live coding, its
transformative potential and politics
* Live coding, temporality and
just-in-time production
* Live coding, alternative epistemologies and artistic
research
* Live coding, subjectivity and ‘life’ coding
* Live coding and
attribution in reputation economies
* Live coding as the persistent traces of
interaction
Position
papers will be circulated in advance. Working throughout the day, there will be
a critical interlocutor and facilitator, helping excavate and elaborate key
ideas connecting live coding to the cultivation of various ‘critical
alternatives’. Results of the workshop will be published on the Live Coding
Network website.
Important
dates:
Call goes
live: 02 April
Proposals
due: 20 May (email 300 word proposals to gcox@dac.au.dk)
Results
made known: 31 May
Workshop: 17
or 18 August 2015, Aarhus
About
Critical Alternatives:
1975-1985-1995-2005 — the decennial Aarhus conferences have traditionally been
instrumental for setting new agendas for critically engaged thinking about
information technology. The conference series is fundamentally
interdisciplinary and emphasizes thinking that is firmly anchored in action,
intervention, and scholarly critical practice. In 2015, we see critical
alternatives in alignment with utopian principles—that is, the hope that things
might not only be different but also radically better. At the same time,
radically better alternatives don’t emerge out of nowhere: they emerged from
contested analyses of the mundane present and demand both commitment and labor
to work towards them. More information here .Critical Alternatives, 5th Decennial Aarhus Conference