Creative Code Collective

Creative Code Collective is a supportive community for critical and artistic coding. We support gaining programming skills in an engaging, non-intimidating environment —- instead focusing on project-driven approaches for learning and making with code. We emphasize criticality and experimentation, and we believe in growth not perfection, scrappy artistic strategies not perfect code, collaboration not competition. All levels and languages welcome!

ABOUT THE COLLECTIVE

"nerdy hype group" for artists exploring code

WHY??

we need supportive spaces that value our diverse capacities to learn & experiment—fearlessly, creatively, critically—with code

WHAT++

• workshops & project troubleshooting
• co-learning & co-working space
• online resource hub

INSPIRED BY>>

• sister spit poetry tour
• homebrew computer club
• processing foundation and p5.js

SHARED VALUES

1. scrappy artistic strategies, not perfect code
2. growth, not perfection
3. open-source attitude: community, not competition
4. we all have skills to teach each other
5. all practice is theory–practice
6. project-based co-learning
7. learn–make–imagine simultaneously & recursively
8. creativity as collaborative wayfinding (ouija)

WHAT WE DO

SOME GUEST WORKSHOPS IN THE PAST

• Feminist.AI
• Machine Learning Tactics for Artists
• Getting Started with ML5.js
• Shaders for Scaredy Cats
• Movement-Based Interaction Design
• Coding for Live Performance

SOME CURRENT IDEAS

• WebVR with Mozilla Hubs
• Hydra/p5.js exquisite corpse algo-rave
• Remixing videos using command line tools
• Discussing design and typographical aesthetics of code
• Discussing the codification of color
• Discussing internet histories
• Code resource hub -- in progress