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At Creative Coding Utrecht we organise a range of monthly events that cater to different interests, age groups and skill level. We aim to help you develop your connection with all things coding, no matter how foreign the subject might seem to you.
Have no idea what Creative Coding means? Have a background in programming but you wouldn’t know where to start making your own, creative stuff? Or do you simply want to enhance your pre-existing skills and create even more flashy visuals, animations and more?
Filter our events by topic and accessibility level, there is something for everyone. To look up any of our past events, check out the archive.
Liberate The Machines, Booklaunch by Joost Rekveld
What happens when we begin to see machines not as passive tools, but as active collaborators in shaping our world? On 14 November, CCU hosts the launch of Joost Rekveld’s new book Liberate the Machines!, an evening that combines a booklaunch and film screening with a conversation between Joost Rekveld and artist/writer Marloes de Valk.
Joost Rekveld (BE) is an artist who wonders what humans can learn from a dialogue with the machines they have constructed. In a form of media archeology he investigates modes of material engagement with devices from forgotten corners in the history of science and technology. The outcomes of these investigations often take the shape of abstract films that attempt to reach an intimate and embodied understanding of our technological world. Since 2017 he has been affiliated to the School of Arts University College Ghent (KASK) as an artistic researcher.
Marloes de Valk (NL) is a software artist and writer in the post-despair stage of coping with the threat of global warming and being spied on by the devices surrounding her. Surprised by the obsessive dedication with which we, even post-Snowden, share intimate details about ourselves to an often not too clearly defined group of others, astounded by the deafening noise we generate while socializing with the technology around us, she is looking to better understand why. She recently completed a PhD at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University, in collaboration with The Photographer's Gallery, looking into how communities of practice are redefining technology on a damaged Earth.
This event is both a celebration and a conversation: a chance to engage with Joost Rekveld’s practice, to reflect on the role of machines in our shared futures, and to connect with the CCU community and fellow enthusiasts of new media art. It is part of the larger story CCU tells as a Zoöp: a cooperative where more-than-human voices are given space, and where technology itself is recognized as a vital participant.