Creative Coding Utrecht

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Creative Coding Utrecht (CCU) is a recurring meetup and growing community of coders, developers and people generally interested in the creative possbilities of code & technologies. Please join us in exploring how 21st century skills create new expressions that shape our world. CCU is made possible with the kind support of our sponsors: https://www.meetup.com/Creative-Coding-Utre...

CCU is a meetup that aims to open up the field of creative code, digital design, and artistic technologies. We invite artists, makers, coders, designers, thinkers and anyone interested to join us and present their work. By offering an informal meeting place for people we aim to connect the local communities and present their practices to a larger audience. We believe that sharing projects, work-in-progress, challenges, failures and successes, helps to get a grip on the multiplicity of technologies and networks that are embedded in our lives. Creative Coding Utrecht is meant as a place where work and inspiration is shared by the local community and people feel empowered to give these emerging technologies a try. By exploring the possibilities of algorithms to create expressions we aim to make these technologies accessible and develop a vibrant community that fosters conversations about how art and technology can have a positive social impact on all layers of society.

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Practices of Alliance Meetup
Fri, Jul 10 · 7:30 PM CEST
Instituto Cervantes, Domplein 3, Utrecht, UT, NL
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CCU returns to Instituto Cervantes for a spotlight on our artists in residence, who will introduce their current projects and artistic practices relating to ecology and creative technologies. ⁠ ⁠

Speakers ⁠ ⁠

Nahun Saldaña will develop a site-specific sonic intervention at the Hof van Cartesius that monitors and makes audible the living processes of the space, using local bio-data and low-energy electronics to create a direct, sensory dialogue with the site's biodiversity. ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

Sounak Das will introduce his artistic practice, which operates at the intersection of image, sound, video, sculpture, installation and technology, with a strong focus on storytelling, bodily experience and audience participation. Enchanted by a deep curiosity for science and spirituality, he interrogates the metaphysical and speculative possibilities of art as a means of inquiry. ⁠ ⁠

In a performative lecture, Miranda Moss and Urs Gaudenz from GaudiLabs will unfurl their art-science research practice of kitsch kitchen bioelectronics, which aims to agitate knowledge hierarchies and shift collective imaginaries around science, technology and regenerative futures. They will show and tell their recent work with organic semiconductors, bioelectric nanowires, plant-based synths and onion circuits. ⁠ ⁠

The conceptual separation between nature on the one hand and humans on the other has destructive consequences. We know ‘nature documentaries’ as a genre that confirms this old paradigm. But what happens if we let go of this separation in a nature documentary? What if human structures are not left out of the picture, but are part of it? And what do we see when a nature film is not about a coral reef or rainforest, but about a building? Audiovisual artist Werner de Valk tries to answer these questions by following a building, the Boomtoren, through the seasons, for one year. ⁠
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These international residences are situated in the Zoöp ecosystem of CCU: a Zoöp is an organizational model for collaboration between human and non-human life. ⁠ ⁠

Residencies supported by Insituto Cervantes, EUNIC, Zoöp Connections and Amarte fonds.

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