NEWS
All upcoming CCU events postponed until further notice
Dear everyone, the developments around #COVID19 and the lockdown situation have lead to a necessity to postpone all our upcoming Creative Coding Utrecht events.
Depending on how things evolve from here on out we hope to be able to reschedule to a moment later this spring. To stay informed, please subscribe to our newsletter. New future dates for the postponed events are under consideration pending what happens in the next few weeks.
After the lockdown has been lifted - possibly around 6 April - we will recommence consulting all involved artists, partners, venues and audience. It is only after that we can realistically recommence scheduling lectures, workshops and meetups. Now is a time to stand strong & supportive through these hardships that we all share & that bind us - until we all can safely gather again.
POSTPONED EVENTS
Workshop Live Coding in Mercury
During this workshop led by Timo Hoogland you will be introduced to the livecoding environment Mercury; Mercury is a minimal and human-readable language focussing on quick expression in composition, performing and communication of livecoded music.
And a great environment to get introduced to the amazing worlds of live coding, creative coding, algorithmic composition, electronic music and of course Algoraves!
In this workshop you will learn how to generate different rhythms with algorithms and probabilities, how to make basslines with a synthesizer and program melodies for arpeggiators by combining various algorithmic composition methods. No prior programming or musical experience required.
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ART MACHINES: Lecture Driessens & Verstappen
CCU presents ART MACHINES, a series of events where we invite the pioneers of Dutch media art to take a look at their work and unpack it. After a successful first edition with Joost Rekveld, we are proud to announce this years’ artists: Driessens & Verstappen (D&V).
The Amsterdam based artist couple Erwin Driessens and Maria Verstappen, create art by using autonomously operating processes. Their multifaceted oeuvre of software, machines and objects are inspired by the most autonomous processes of all: nature and genetic growth. At the ART MACHINES Lecture we will dive into the varying works of Driessens & Verstappen and the role of the underlying sources of inspiration.
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ART MACHINES: Workshop ReCoding Driessens & Verstappen
CCU calls makers (visual/sound/performing-artists, coders and designers) to participate in ReCoding Driessens & Verstappen, a two-day workshop with the artist couple. Participants will create prototypes for new works, inspired by one of Driessens & Verstappen’s early artworks. The goal of the ReCoding trajectory is to create new artistic projects and present them at one of our partner events. Selected projects receive 5k to create a new piece. The whole project consists out of several phases to keep track of the development of the project and offer feedback and support from experts in the creation process. Sign up here: €71,- (regular) | €36,- (students) - includes lunch & drinks
Machine Learning & (Typo)graphic Design Meetup
In collaboration with Superposition.cc, we're hosting an evening on Machine Learning and Graphic Design in Utrecht. The goal of this event is to show some recent experiments done involving graphic design and machine learning. Research on how machine learning will affect the development of type and typography drove Superposition's Robin to initiate this event. Current forms of typography also show artefacts from the tools historically used in their creation. What would be the impact when using machine learning? This is, in short, the question Robin and Bram pursue in their research. More info & speakers TBA...
ABOUT
CCU is a community founded in 2017 by Carolien Teunisse and Fabian van Sluijs with the goal to stimulate digital creativity and creative coding in Utrecht and beyond.
Through a variety of activities such as workshops, meetups, performances and exhibitions we bring together the community of makers (artists, designers, researchers, developers, performers, musicians) to share knowledge and collaboratively explore the artistic potential of self-made soft- and hardware for creating expressions.
In framing our activities we employ a postdigital perspective in which we make no distinction between 'old' and 'new' media and reflect on 'digital' creativity as part of a long tradition around arts and crafts. In this context Creative Coding Culture is interesting as it's thoroughly hybrid and composed of practices so diverse that its meaning is in flux. As such we research and reflect on what creative coding is and can be, in order to look for new and anti-disciplinary methodologies that can help shape our contemporary society in a fair and positive way.
DOCUMENTS
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Our multi-year policy plan 2021 - 2024 (in Dutch)
AESTHETICS-OF-CCU_20200401.pdf (7.91 MB)
PAST EVENTS
Urban Interfaces - Designing for More-Than-Human Cities
A pressure cooker workshop hosted by research group [urban interfaces], the research MA program Media, Art & Performance Studies at Utrecht University, and Creative Coding Utrecht - platform for art and digital creativity.
In this workshop, students from different programs and academies collaborate on an interdisciplinary urban design assignment. The specific focus of the workshop is to develop creative designs for interfacing with the more-than-human cities.
Register: this workshop is fully booked
CCU x Uncloud: Art as Research
Date: 15 Feb
Time: 15:00 - 17:30
Location: Pieter Baan Centrum
Address: Gansstraat 170, 3582 EP Utrecht
How are fields like electronic music, artistic research, video art and choreography united? How are generative processes used to create audiovisual art? What are the research elements embodied in such performances?
During this afternoon programme, together with Uncloud we invite you to delve into the artistic process of three different artists, each with a distinctive approach, who will all perform during the evening programme at Uncloud Festival 2020.
Tickets: an Uncloud 2020 entry ticket (that's either a Saturday, expo or weekender ticket) will grant you access to the talks
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Uncloud Festival 2020
Date: 8 Feb - 16 Feb
Location: Poppodium Ekko, Bemuurde Weerd WZ 3, 3513 BH Utrecht
To celebrate its fifth edition, this year Uncloud festival will burst open the creative process even more.
Uncloud is back with newly added locations, an artistic laboratory, workshops, performances and exhibitions.
An ever-developing quest to a thinner line between crowd and artist, immersion, music and space and refreshed ideas.
More profound and progressive than ever before.
Tickets: €8 expo / €16 day-ticket / €26 passe-partout / €31 passe-partout+expo
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CCU x Uncloud: Workshop Live Coding in Mercury
Date: 16 Feb
Time: 15:00 - 17:30
Location: Pieter Baan Centrum
Address: Gansstraat 170, 3582 EP Utrecht
During this workshop led by Timo Hoogland you will be introduced to the livecoding environment Mercury; learn how to generate different rhythms with algorithms and probabilities, how to make basslines with a synthesizer and program melodies for arpeggiators by combining various algorithmic composition methods. No prior programming or musical experience required!
Tickets:
In order to participate in this workshop, you need to fill out the application form and buy a ticket for the Uncloud exhibition or possess a festival-passepartout.
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Max User Meetup NL
Date: 25 Jan 2020
Time: 14:30 - 19:00
Venue: De Havenloods, Nijverheidsweg 6, 3534 AM Utrecht
A meetup we're co-hosting with Timo Hoogland for everyone interested in creative coding with the Max/MSP programming environment!
PROGRAMME:
Sannety > "Polyrhythmic sequencer in Max",
Jaromir Mulders > "Art Machines Audiovisual Piece",
Maija Anttila > "Bass Clarinet & Live Electronics",
Sem Shimla > "Live Tutorial: Glitch Pixel Shader & Envelope Follower",
also there'll be some networking, a patching-Workspace, Q&A, drinks, food & more patching!
PRICE: €5,- (pin ONLY)
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ART MACHINES
Date: Saturday December 7 2019
Time: 20:00 - 03:00
Venue: De Nijverheid, Nijverheidsweg 6, 3534 AM Utrecht
ART MACHINES is an audiovisual club night that presents installations and live performances of artists that work on the cross section of art, technology and music. At the new cultural hotspot de Nijverheid Creative Coding Utrecht brings together the history of media art with the avant-garde of digital culture. We invite upcoming and established artists who'll take the audience on a mind-blowing experience that triggers all your senses.
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NLCL Monthly Meetup
Date: Wednesday November 20 2019
Time: 19:30 - 23:00
Venue: De Havenloods, Nijverheidsweg 6, 3534 AM Utrecht
This monthly Livecoding meetup will (for the first time!) be hosted at the Havenloods in Utrecht together with Nether Lands Coding Live! We welcome all coders, creatives, musicians, artists, visualists and anyone else who is interested or curious in the field of Live Coding! Join us to talk Live Coding, share work-in-progress/ideas/code, have a Live Coding Jam Session and explore it hands-on!
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CCU x Le Mini Who?
Date: Sunday November 10 2019
Time: 15:00 - 20:00
Venue: De Havenloods, Nijverheidsweg 6, 3534 AM Utrecht
Especially for Le Mini Who? 2019, Creative Coding Utrecht has selected two interactive installations: Timo Hoogland will be presenting 'c26h21n3o3+o2' – a visually mesmerizing light installation depicting particle flows inspired on #bioluminescent life forms often seen in coastal waters.
Carolien Teunisse will present her 'Portrait Machine' – a robotic pen plotter that draws portraits of visitors in any abstract style on paper.. We’re looking forward to opening up De Havenloods for the public and the experimental “avant-R&B” electronics of Zoe Reddy music! ❤️
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CCU17++ Creative Coding Meetup at Havenloods
Date: Thursday October 24 2019
Time: 19:45 - 22:45
Venue: De Havenloods, Nijverheidsweg 6, 3534 AM Utrecht
On Wednesday 30 October we reinstate our monthly meetup and welcome you to our brand new location: De Havenloods, A warehouse where the CCU office is located next to De Nijverheid.
The CCU meetup is a place to get inspired and meet new people. We invite people to show and tell about projects and work-in-progress.
Do you want to share something? There’s room for announcements or ad hoc demo’s ;-) We close the evening with a little bit of live coding. There will be beers and other drinks.
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Shader Showdown Seminar
Date: Sunday September 15 2019
Time: 14:30 - 17:00
Venue: Sensor Lab, Plompetorengracht 4, 3512 CC Utrecht
On Sunday afternoon Shader Showdown finalist Flopine gives a seminar about the basics of shader coding. Later on, Showdown competitor Evvvvil takes over for a codejam-style shader session. During this session visitors (that's you!) are warmly welcomed to ask questions, ask for advice on existing code, or try some of the techniques that Evvvvil is famous for - and he'll make sure to explain things in easily understandable terms.
PRICE: €15,-, buy your TICKET
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Uitfeest: Shader Showdown at de Neude
Date: Saturday 14 September 2019
Time: 12:00 - 22:30
Location: Neude, 3512 AE Utrecht
We open the new cultural season with live coding battles and closing live coding performance of Hip Hop band Panda Zooicide in the center of Utrecht. For those who want to get their hands dirty, we'll also host a shader coding seminar on Sunday…
CCU joins forces with Urban Dance Festival Freedom City to host a free party at de Neude. At this public city square we host a variety of dance and code battles. We've invited a variety of coders to perform their skills in a battle to live code the most amazing visuals in a timeframe of 25 minutes. This battle is also known (especially among the game- and demoscene subcultures) as the "Shader Showdown".
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Uitfeest: ART MACHINES - Talks & Demo's
Date: Sunday September 15 2019
Time: 13:00 - 13:45
Location: Academiegebouw Universiteit Utrecht, Domplein 29, 3512 JE Utrecht
How to find us: In the hall the first room on the left..
For the occasion of het Uitfeest CCU invites artists to give insights in the development of the installations and performances they'll present in December at ART MACHINES, an experimental audiovisual concert night at De Nijverheid venue. During Culturele Zondag artists present their work-in-progress and we'll reflect on the importance of reinterpretation of media art as a learning and conservation strategy for media art.
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Team
Carolien Teunisse - education
Fabian van Sluijs - artistic director
Myrthe van der Boom - business & operations manager
Petra Biro - project assistent
Saskia Freeke - programme & lead-education
Sietse van der Meer - communications & web
Crew
Axelle van Wynsberghe - nomadic researcher
Benjamin Hull - photography
Benjamin van Vliet - editor
Bram Snijders - technical producer
Costanza Tagliaferri - intern
Iris Jansen - producer
Mariska Berrevoets - pr & marketing
Mavi Irmak Karadermirler - intern
Sterre Boesen - communications
Tanja Busking - videography
Tanja van Zoest - creative producer
Vincent Schrijnemakers - photography
Information
Stichting Creative Coding Utrecht
Mailing address: Krugerstraat 96, 3531 AS Utrecht
E-mail address: info@creativecodingutrecht.nl
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