What we’re about
N+C is a meetup series in Frankfurt building a community around people interested in the creative and critical application of technologies. The meetup seeks to bring together local artists, designers, creative coders, hackers or members of the communities around VVVV, Processing, Webtechnologies, AI and related frameworks. Each meetup will invite someone to share their practice and provide insights “behind the front end” of their projects – and will provide drinks, a soup and plenty of space for getting to know each other.
Since late 2011 we regularly invite artists, thinkers, hackers, ..., to present their views or works and to help us start new discussions and open new fields.
Newsletter: https://nodeforum.org/newsletter/
N+C 2023+ is a cooperation between NODE Forum for Digital Arts and University of Applied Sciences Mainz and happens with support of many local organizations. The first editions are funded in the program “Promotion of Cultural and Creative Industries Institutions” by the Hessian Ministry of Economy, Energy, Transport and Housing.
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Die NODE+CODE Meetups werden in Kooperation mit der Geschäftsstelle Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft Hessen bei der HA Hessen Agentur, der Hochschule Mainz, MESO Digital Interiors und der Wirtschaftsförderung Frankfurt gestartet. Das Projekt wird gefördert in der Maßnahme „Förderung von Einrichtungen der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft“ durch das Hessische Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie, Verkehr und Wohnen. Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Crespo Foundation.
In this workshop, digital performance artist Naoto Hieda gives an introduction to live coding for online performances using Hydra software. Hydra is a creative coding environment developed by Olivia Jack to create and publish visualizations in real time, especially in the web browser. Hydra is ideal for beginners and allows for the development of interactive visuals with little or no coding experience. Participants will learn how to generate glitchy images and how to use code to create their own generative aesthetic. Finally, we will create a small multimedia real-time performance in which visuals interactively respond to sound, code and to our bodies.
The previous day, Amir will also be speaking during NODE+CODE meetup #21!
📅 14.09.2025, 10:00
📍 NODE office
Gutleutstr. 96
60329 Frankfurt am Main
🎟️ 0-30€ pay as you can and register here:
https://ticket.nodeforum.org/node-code/4663855/
The project is funded in the program “Promotion of Cultural and Creative Industries Institutions” by the Hessian Ministry of Economy, Energy, Transport, Housing and Rural Affairs. In collaboration with Crespo Foundation, Frankfurt Economic Development, University of Applied Sciences Mainz and MESO Digital Interiors.
Upcoming events (2)
See all- NODE+CODE Meetup #21 – On The MoveBerliner Straße 60, Frankfurt
The next NODE+CODE meetup will host two artists and creative coders who are moving code, bodies, and memory across different frameworks, platforms and contexts. By presenting their work they invite us to consider how coding practices shift through adoption, adaptation, and refusal, and how these movements create new forms of relationships, collaboration and life in a post-digital world.
Japanese creative coder, artist and PhD researcher Naoto Hieda will share how his work with code informed his formal and poetic approach to all means of contemporary expression – from browsers to paper drawings: “Afterimage of the pixels, sweat and saliva on the laminate floor, meeting link without the host - when a live installation-performance-whatsoever ends, ephemeral and (semi-)permanent artifacts linger in the space. As an artist with neurodiversity/-queerness, my practice lies in collecting and giving a new life to what I left - screen recording of a live-coded improvisation becomes a YouTube link, a drawing of the trees I spontaneously danced for gets superimposed on my childhood painting or a memory of a meaningless movement turning the ashtray while having a conversation with a friend on a rooftop bar becomes a collectible card.”
Artist, coder and p5.js project lead Kit Kuksenok 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.
📅 13.09.2025, 19:00, Doors open: 18:30
📍 Berliner Straße 60,
60311 Frankfurt am Main
🎟️ entry free!
🍲 soup included!Naoto will also host an introduction workshop on Live Coding with Hydra the following day! Find more info here!
The project is funded in the program “Promotion of Cultural and Creative Industries Institutions” by the Hessian Ministry of Economy, Energy, Transport, Housing and Rural Affairs. In collaboration with Crespo Foundation, Frankfurt Economic Development, University of Applied Sciences Mainz and MESO Digital Interiors.
- NODE+CODE #21 Workshop Introduction to live coding with HydraNODE e.V. / NODE Forum for Digital Arts offices, Frankfurt am Main
In this workshop, digital performance artist Naoto Hieda gives an introduction to live coding for online performances using Hydra software. Hydra is a creative coding environment developed by Olivia Jack to create and publish visualizations in real time, especially in the web browser. Hydra is ideal for beginners and allows for the development of interactive visuals with little or no coding experience. Participants will learn how to generate glitchy images and how to use code to create their own generative aesthetic. Finally, we will create a small multimedia real-time performance in which visuals interactively respond to sound, code and to our bodies.
The previous day, Amir will also be speaking during NODE+CODE meetup #21!
📅 14.09.2025, 10:00
📍 NODE office
Gutleutstr. 96
60329 Frankfurt am Main
🎟️ 0-30€ pay as you can and register here:
https://ticket.nodeforum.org/node-code/4663855/The project is funded in the program “Promotion of Cultural and Creative Industries Institutions” by the Hessian Ministry of Economy, Energy, Transport, Housing and Rural Affairs. In collaboration with Crespo Foundation, Frankfurt Economic Development, University of Applied Sciences Mainz and MESO Digital Interiors.
