Calendar
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.
Small AI Lab - shared practices for sustainable machine learning
How can we work with machine learning in ways that are ethical, local, and grounded in community care? In this two day lab, makers, artists, and researchers open up their practices around working with small datasets and small scale AI. Instead of thinking bigger, faster, and heavier, we explore what becomes possible when you choose to work small.
Day 1 takes the form of an open, meetup style session. Through shared presentations and conversations, you gain insight into how creative practitioners are developing sustainable and transparent approaches to machine learning. Ivan Paz, Lina Lab, and Computational Mama share their experiences, and there is space for others to contribute.
On Day 2 the lab turns hands-on. Together we explore tools and methods that prioritise care, clarity, and creative autonomy over scale and extraction. You learn how small datasets function, what these approaches make possible, and what they deliberately choose not to do. We look at how artists and technologists are shaping responsible, community-based AI as an alternative to big tech infrastructures that extract from artists, from communities, and from the environment.
This lab is part of an ongoing conversation about building AI practices that are sovereign, sustainable, and shared. It is a community programme where everyone can take part. You join the full two days and only pay for lunch.
Contribute your own project
If you want to share your work during Day 1, you receive a free ticket. Please fill in the signup form in Nextcloud to participate.