20.04.2023
14-15.04.2023
VOGELFREI, Utrecht
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The International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC) is dedicated to practices and research focused on technologies and philosophies that interpret the use of computer code as gesture within the context of live performances. In its previous editions the community has offered important insights on this practice from many diverse perspectives – technical, philosophical, educational, political and more.

ICLC 2023 takes place in Utrecht, The Netherlands from April 19 to April 23 2023 and has the theme Displacement.

Marije Baalman is invited as a keynote speaker for the conference, and will speak on the topic of Human/Machine Entanglement in relation to livecoding:

Thinking Inside the Box: Instant Composition, Folded Structures and Beyond the Screen

Livecoding is an act of rebellion against the fixed idea software as immutable, impenetrable, but yet advertised as neutral, systems that are humanity’s future – it inspires democratisation of the human/machine entanglement of our current society, by showing that code is mutable, alive, accessible, and above all an expression of concepts – which are personal and political.

Ca. 20 years after the start of the projection era of livecoding, perhaps it is time to make up the balance of how the entanglement between humans and machines within the livecoding community has evolved.

Marije Baalman’s past livecoding works, Code LiveCode Live, Wezen-Gewording, Etudes pour le Livecoding à une Main, and the machine is learning all address different aspects of human/machine entanglement. In her presentation she will come back to topics she addressed in her paper Embodiment of Code at the first ICLC in 2015, her article “Interplay between Composition, Instrument Design and Performance” (2016) and her book “Composing Interactions” (2022).