Creative Code Denver

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About us

This group is for people interested in exploring code as a creative medium. It's also for helping people find creative collaborators. (AI stuff is off-topic)

"Who should join?"

Anyone, at any skill level, who's interested in programming in the context of the arts—whether visual, or sonic, or tactile, or interactive, or whatever you happen to be interested in.

"What will we do at the mostly-causal, online and/or in-person events?"

Show each other projects we're working on, casually or in structured show-and-tells
Collaborate or help each other with projects
Teach each other skills, informally or via workshops
Program, sometimes wordlessly, in a shared space
Make cool stuff
Go to museums or galleries
Haunt the library
Play with a pen plotter (AxiDraw SE/A3)

Also… we have a discord!

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Processing Community Day
Sun, Nov 8 · 11:00 AM MST
The Company, 2101 W 29th Ave, Denver, CO 80211, USA, Denver, CO, US
A free one-day conference-shaped celebration of creative coding, art, and open source! Coffee, talks, demos. No creative coding or programming experience required.

NOTE: We were unable to secure wheelchair-accessible venue.

"Processing Community Day (PCD) is a worldwide series of community-led events celebrating art, code, and open-source creative tools. Events are organized by local communities around the globe."

SCHEDULE
- 11:00am - Coffee, opening remarks
- 11:30 - Lightning talks
- 12:30 - Lunch
- 1:30 - TBD - Mystery workshop or talk
- 2:00 - Break
- 2:10 - Talk: Small videogames with big ambitions | Rafael Fajardo
- 2:55 - Break
- 3:05 - Talk: The Depth of Words | Joel Swanson
- 3:50 - Break
- 4:00 - Coplanar Nations | Phillip David Stearns
- 4:30 - Closing remarks
SPEAKERS / TALKS

Rafael Fajardo
Artist, designer, researcher, and educator

Small videogames with big ambitions
In this talk Rafael Fajardo will share the processes, failures, and successes behind his games: Crosser (p5js+play); and Migraciones (C#, Unity, and OpenTSPS). The games are small in that all gameplay occurs in a single screen. They are ambitious in their attempts at poetic use of game mechanics to comment on culture.
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Joel Swanson
Interdisciplinary artist

The Depth of Words
Writing has always had depth, from chisel cuts in stone to a drop shadow in one line of CSS. This talk traces the dimensions of text from Sesame Street to word vectors, and explores how AI is changing more than the way we write: it’s changing the shape of meaning itself.
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Phillip David Stearns
Artist

Coplanar Nations
An improvised audio visual performance that employs the use of z-fighting to dramatize open armed conflicts between modern nations, states, peoples and governing bodies by mapping flags as textures onto coplanar surfaces in order to force-render a "compromised state", a resolution that is never fully resolved.

LIGHTNING TALKS (More to come)
Like weather: creative reuse of environmental research,
Leah Bertrand
This talk will briefly explore the repurposing of earth science data for the creation of digital art

Math for Graphics lessons: Discover, create, remember
Greg Stanton
Internalize the math behind computer graphics with open-source lessons combining guided storytelling, coding sandboxes, and spaced repetition.

TBD!
Gus Becker
TBD!

Data impressions
Norton King
Schlep, sentimentality, punch clocks, printers, and p5

You? Message Norton to sign up!

WHAT TO BRING
- Bring your laptop! (And charger)
12 attendees