NODE+CODE Meetup #21 – On The Move

For NODE+CODE #21, we will explore artistic practices that understand movement not only as physical displacement, but as the circulation of code, memory, and material traces across different contexts. This evening invites you to consider how ephemeral gestures persist as afterimages, how digital practices leave unexpected artifacts, and how software practices shift through adoption, adaptation, and refusal.
Two lovely contributors will give us insight into their work this time around:
From Tokyo, Naoto presents a practice that emerges from moments when performance and installation have ended, yet traces linger. Afterimages of pixels, sweat on the floor, or the residue of a meeting link without a host become material to work with. By collecting and reactivating these ephemeral and semi-permanent artifacts, Naoto gives them a new life — whether as a screen recording turned into a YouTube video, a spontaneous drawing layered over childhood paintings, or a memory of casual movement recast as a collectible card.
From Berlin, Kit contributes Code Work, a lecture-performance that reflects on the adoption, adaptation, and refusal of software practices in professional and everyday contexts. Rather than treating code as neutral infrastructure, Kit examines the ways it shapes and is shaped by systems of labor, creativity, and resistance.
Together, these two contributions open up on the move as a theme of what travels, transforms, or resists capture — whether a trace of a performance, a fragment of memory, or a piece of software practice.