NODE+CODE Meetup #21 – On The Move

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.