David Whitney - Meditations on Code As Art

Meditations on Code As Art

Code can be beautiful, elegant and performant, but can it deliberately be artistic?

Despite how important and prolific software and programming have become over the last 50 years the general public still have a very loose understanding of what software actually is.

This hasn't been lost of the people that build the software, who often slowly try and capture themselves in the work that they do.

In this talk we'll take a look at some examples through history of seeing the humans behind the code they write as they imprint themselves on their work and we'll consider if it's possible to deliberately make art by manipulating the form and design of software itself.

A talk for everyone wanting to be seen in the work, or understand their own creative urge.

Agenda:
18:30 Arrive, Network and Food.
18:45 Introductions and catch-up.
19:00 Talk
20:30 Close and head off to pub (The Good Intent?) for some more talking.