NEWS

Rainbows End: Sex Tech Hackathon

DateJanuary 23 + 24 LocationOnline event

We’re starting off the RAINBOWS END 🌈🌈🌈 era with an interactive pre-event, a hackathon about sex tech, together with artists, academics, technologists, thinkers and tinkerers from all backgrounds and perspectives… We'll learn about the diverse and evolving field of Sex Tech, and the implications it has on the past, present, and future of intimacy, companionship, and human behaviour. Let's get hands-on and physical with intimate technologies from a maker perspective through live demonstrations and tutorials!

Rainbows End 🌈🌈🌈 is made possible by Gemeente Utrecht, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Mondriaan Fonds, VSBFonds, Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds, Stichting Fentener van Vlissingen Fonds, and Pictoright Fonds.

Rainbows End

DateFebruary 11 - 21 LocationDe Havenloods & De Nijverheid

We’re very excited to introduce you to our exhibition Rainbows End 🌈🌈🌈, where we strive to give a platform to underrepresented makers (femme, poc & queer) who use art and virtual worlds as an artistic medium. The exhibition takes place from February 11 until 21 at De Havenloods and De Nijverheid and is curated by HERVISIONS. The next few months, we’ll be announcing many great events like workshops, hackathons, tours, all leading up to this exhibition. Stay tuned for updates

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10 Minute Livecoding Challenge

DateSeason 2020, 15 Episodes April - July Location Streaming live to a channel near you! Youtube, Periscope, Twitch, Instagram TV, Vimeo or Facebook

In light of current worldwide developments, we've gone ahead and commenced a totally new segment we call our "10 Minute Livecoding Challenge"! During this weekly (every Tuesday at 20:00 CEST) bit, artists from the Netherlands Coding Live and Creative Coding Utrecht community presented 10-minute live coding performances.

Interview series: "Behind The Screens"

DateApril - July 2020 Location https://medium.com/the-aesthetics-of-creative-coding,

We've challenged coders all over the country to create something from scratch in 10 minutes. During their live performance, the artists are expose the tools and practices they're using for coding music and/or visuals. In addition to their live performance, we are interviewing all artist in-depth, discussing their practice, tools, work in the community and coping with the radical and drastic changes in their practice due to the COVID-19 crisis. You can find an overview of all "Behind The Screens" interviews here.

BEHIND THE SCREENS

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Behind the Screens: Carolien Teunisse

21 July 2020 An interview with creative coder and co-founder of Creative Coding Utrecht Carolien Teunisse.

Behind the Screens: Sabrina Verhage

14 July 2020 An interview with Sabrina Verhage, a live coder and co-founder of Creative Coding Amsterdam.

Behind the Screens: Rafaele Andrade

7 July 2020 An interview with creative coder and composer Rafaele Andrade.

Behind the Screens: Marije Baalman

30 June 2020 An interview with livecoder and performer Marije Baalman.

Behind the Screens: Roald van Dillewijn

23 June 2020 An interview with coder and electronical musician Roald van Dillewijn.

Behind the Screens: Sasj

16 June 2020 An interview with Saskia Freeke (Sasj).

Behind the Screens: Kesson

9 June 2020 An interview with livecoder Giovanni Muzio (Kesson).

Behind the Screens: Joana Chicau

3 June 2020 An interview with Joana Chicau, graphic designer, dancer and livecoder.

Behind the Screens: Jobi

26 May 2020 An interview with livecoder and data scientist Jo Kroese (Jobi).

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

Our annual report 2019 (in Dutch)
CCU_Jaarverslag_2019.pdf (38.134 KB)
Our annual report 2018 (in Dutch)
CCU_Jaarverslag_2018.pdf (4.063 KB)
Our multi-year policy plan 2021 - 2024 (in Dutch)
AESTHETICS-OF-CCU_20200401.pdf (8.104 KB)
Annual statement 7E report 2019 (in Dutch)
Jaarafrekening_7E_2019_CCU.pdf (11.32 KB)

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Opening The Overkill festival - BBB_ performance + algorave

EventFestival DateFriday 27 November Time19:00 - 02:30 LocationOnline

With the ominously relevant theme 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙀𝙉𝘿 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝙇𝘿 𝘼𝙎 𝙒𝙀 𝙆𝙉𝙊𝙒 𝙄𝙏, Overkill Festival is happening from the 27th of November to the 6th of December. It is a playful event hosting a great variety of digital culture, fully taking place online. ..and we’ll be there! Some of our finest live coders will be bringing beats and visuals to the algoraves of the Overkill Festival, such as: 𝘌𝘹𝘰-𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮, 𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘢 𝘊á𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘴, 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘻𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘴, 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘛𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦, 𝘑𝘰𝘦 𝘒𝘳𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘦, 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘰 𝘏𝘰𝘰𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘐𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘰, 𝘙𝘢𝘮ó𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘫ó This workshop is made possible by funding from Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industrie (Creative Industries Fund NL) More info: Facebook Event