Code&share Aarhus

29/09/2023

We hope to see you all tomorrow at PCD! There are still a few spots left for the workshops, so remember to sign up! ⏰

Markus Bjerremand and Signe Runge-Dalager are MA students in digital design at Aarhus University. Their presentation “B.E.C.N: Speculating Alternative Data Infrastructures” explore how speculative design methods can create alternative future imaginaries of ‘data worlds’ and showcase how we might envision data infrastructures that are decentralized, autonomous, or symbiotic.

Richard Vijgen is an artist and designer whose work focuses on artistic data visualization. His presentation “The Infosphere and the Technological Sublime” will discuss several recent projects that explore the invisible technological dimensions of our daily surroundings, and the demystification and imagination of complex technological systems using datavisualization and interactive installations. In his workshop “Space Weather, a Data Stream from the Future” you will get hands-on experience in using realtime data from a deep space satellite to create dynamic audiovisual translations.

Sign up for the workshop here: https://www.pcdaarhus.net/workshops/

// 3D visuals by Quad Studio

27/09/2023

3 days to PCD! Remember to sign up for workshops and bring your laptop and friends.

Arnar Ómarsson is an artist and 3D specialist with a degree in photography and fine arts. His presentation “Sedimental Value” will introduce GeoDE, an artistic research project exploring geo-digital aspects of the cable protection zones, exploring the information infrastructure that weave through the ocean’s sediment, facilitating 95% of global data transfers.

Jussi Parikka is professor in Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University. His presentation “The Environmental Audiotour and Materiality of Data” will explore notions and practices of data, and how it needs to be broadened and encompass infrastructure as well as broader architectural, and landscape features. He will present the Environmental Audiotour that uses creative writing and fiction to create narratives of “environmental data” in urban context of Helsinki.

Sign up for workshops here: https://www.pcdaarhus.net/workshops/

// 3D visuals by Quad Studio

25/09/2023

The countdown to PCD is beginning! Here’s a sneak peek of this year’s workshops and speakers:

Renée Ridgway is a researcher, educator and media artist based in Aarhus and Amsterdam. She will be opening PCD with her workshop “Re:search — Data Visualizations as Transcription”, which will engage with searching online, comparing Google search results to results obtained with alternative search engines. The process of gathering data includes saving complete webpages which are then exported as CSV files, extrapolating the URLs to Excel and then using Processing software to visualize diverse ranking and unique hyperlinks. Her presentation “Re:search — Terms of Art” are data visualizations produced with interactive designer Richard Vijgen that elucidate search results using Google and Tor.

Sign up for the workshop here: https://www.pcdaarhus.net/workshops/

Honey Biba Beckerlee () is a research based visual artist exploring the notions of digital materiality. Her presentation “Swarm Intelligence” will present her work with optic fiber and light; a series of art works that takes as their point of departure the submarine cables that form the physical infrastructure for the vast information cloud that makes up the Internet.

// 3D visuals by Quad Studio

28/07/2022

22/11/2021

The PCD @ Aarhus 2021 video is now ready, filled with precious moments of the event that took place last month. Enjoy the video and hope to see you at Code&Share[ ]'s future events!

13/10/2021

Thank you everyone for attending Processing Community Day @ Aarhus 2021 last Saturday! We would like to share more photos from the event, and to express our gratitude for the enthusiastic participation and creative sharing and exchanges by all speakers and the audience, as well as to extend a warm note of thank you to all our partners here.

Without the solid support from these partners, our event would not have been possible:

Danish Arts Foundation Statens Kunstfond
Aarhus Municipality Aarhus Kommune
Humans and IT Research Programme, Aarhus University Aarhus Universitet
Aarhus Billedkunstcenter Aarhus Billedkunstcenter / Aarhus Center for Visual Art
DOMEN Aarhus Domen
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Our speakers have filled the day with their exciting and inspiring knowledge and experience sharing:

Stig Møller Hansen
Mace Ojala
Kristoffer Ørum
Sofie Lundby Andersen + Nina Isis Kinch Bolton + Simon Feusi Ludvigsen + Sofie Fürsterling Mønster
Nanna Debois Buhl
Grow Your Own Cloud Grow Your Own Cloud - Monika Seyfried + Cyrus Clarke

And not but not least, for all the efforts of the PCD @ Aarhus 2021 Organizing Team:

Anders Visti
Winnie Soon
Heidi Phoebe Nikolaisen
Ann Karring
Joy Wang
Margrete Lodahl Rolighed
Nynne Lucca Christiansen
Nina Isis Kinch Bolton
Mathias Hornshøj Hansen (videographer) Hornshøj Photography

We hope you have enjoyed the event as much as we did! Stay tuned for our further updates!

09/10/2021

PCD @ Aarhus 2021 had an afternoon jam-packed with inspiring speaker sessions and a workshop session that gave us a lot of food for thought.

We started off with Mace Ojala who talked about his life alongside coding and how “maintainers” work with software maintenance and how code could be as vulnerable as people.

Kristoffer Ørum gave a spectacular performance lecture in the capacity of a signal crayfish, an invasive species that sheds light on implications for human and other non-human species alike.

This was followed by a presentation by four students from Aarhus University, all specializing in Digital Design. Sofie Lundby Andersen, Nina Isis Kinch Bolton, Sofie Fürsterling Mønster and Simon Feusi Ludvigsen presented their project on image classification and tagging bias and the sociological perspective of how political and racial biases could potentially be reduced by image tagging and programming.

Nanna Debois Buhl shared her unique ways of working with algorithm and programming as a visual artist keen about weaving, and her fascination with clouds, the moon, human vs. machine and analog photography.

The afternoon culminated in a workshop by Grow Your Own Cloud which shared how biotechnology can enable data storage in the DNA of plants and other living organisms, whereby workshop participants came up with creative and interesting ideas on potential new and more sustainable ways of data storage that engages with our kinship with nature.

09/10/2021

PCD 2021 @ Aarhus 2021 is on today! This morning we have Stig Møller Hansen who guides workshop participants on how to do basic programming using Processing 4.0 to create "sketches" of endless evolving patterns. Come join us at Domen in Aarhus in the afternoon for more speaker sessions!

08/10/2021

Tomorrow, Saturday 9 October is our BIG DAY! Here is our final program for the event FYI. Please sign up on the following link if you still haven't done so yet. Come listen to the speaker sessions or just chat with fellow coders! Refreshments will be served.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/processing-community-day-aarhus-tickets-173462339527

We just can't wait to see you all tomorrow!

07/10/2021

Prior to our second workshop this Saturday 9 October by Grow Your Own Cloud (GYOC), let us introduce the team here! And don't forget to register for our event on our Facebook Events page!

Cyrus Clarke is an artist and futurist with a background in economics and digital technologies. His practice focuses on creating experiences to initiate discussion on the ethical, environmental, political and socio-economic implications of the technology filled worlds we are rushing to create. He is passionate about reforming human-nonhuman interactions and establishing new models of cooperation between people, ecosystems and technologies.

His creative work has been recognised and exhibited internationally, including solo shows in the United States and Denmark. He leads courses and workshops around design and futures, and is a regular keynote speaker. More at: www.cyrus.website

Monika Seyfried is an Interaction Designer with a background in art, photography and filmmaking. In her work, she engages at the intersection of emerging technologies, digital media and the natural environment, creating sensory rich, interactive spaces. Monika’s passion is to build immersive experiences; mixed reality worlds that blend the digital and physical, working with a speculative mindset and experimenting with design approaches.

She has exhibited and presented internationally, including at Ars Electronica, 26th Biennial of Design in Ljubljana, Climate Action Summit at United Nations and World Economic Forum in Davos 2020. She teaches at various different institutions including Hyper Island, The Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen and CIID. More about Monika at: www.monikaseyfried.com

07/10/2021

If you still don't have the answers yet, here is another sharing by one of our past PCD speakers on the reasons why people could be very much into coding, and prepare to be amazed by its wide-reaching impact on our lives. Time to sign up now on our Facebook Events page for PCD @ Aarhus 2021 this Saturday 9 October to experience coding's life-changing possibilities!

05/10/2021

Here's a reminder for our first workshop at 10:10-12:10 this Saturday 9 October by Stig Møller Hansen, Senior Associate Professor PhD @ DMJX!

Stig is a graphic designer, coder, teacher and researcher. He bought an Amiga 500 in 1989 and quickly developed a passion for mixing art and code. Thirty years later, Stig has made his childhood excitement his professional career, teaching programming for graphic designers. Read more about him on http://www.stigmollerhansen.dk/

"A Visual Introduction To Programming" is a two-hour workshop for absolute beginners - see more details on our page, and sign up for the workshop and our event this Saturday at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/processing-community-day-aarhus-tickets-173462339527

30/09/2021

Why do people code? And why would you want to try it too? PCD speakers over the years have shared their views about the impact that coding brings to this world at https://pcdaarhus.net/whycode/. Sign up now on our Facebook Events page for PCD @ Aarhus 2021 on 9 October to explore how coding could change our lives!

24/09/2021

Take a look at our latest program and line-up! Sign up now for our 9 October event on our Facebook Events page, and register for our workshops at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/processing-community-day-aarhus-tickets-173462339527

15/09/2021

We have a special introduction to our speaker session today - it's going to be a presentation by four students from Aarhus University (AU), all specializing in Digital Design.

Sofie Lundby Andersen, Nina Isis Kinch Bolton, Sofie Fürsterling Mønster and Simon Feusi Ludvigsen:
4 Students Staying with the Trouble: Image Classification & Tagging Bias

Simon Feusi Ludvigsen's interest for coding occurred during his second semester at AU while following the course of Aesthetic Programming. He is specifically interested in how coding in recent times contributes to the illumination of people’s diversities and how the development of this industry moves in a direction that hopefully makes up with the normative, old-fashioned ways of defining individuals (in all sorts of programs).

Nina Isis Kinch Bolton is interested in intersectional feminism and questioning the status quo through art and technology. In her free time she is a nerd who loves video games and hanging out with animals.

Before Sofie Fürsterling Mønster attended the course Aesthetic Programming she's never had anything to do with code or programming. During this course she realized how a lot of problematic aspects lie underneath the surface of the digital technologies we use in our everyday life, and this is really what made coding interesting to her.

Sofie Lundby Andersen has a passion for films in general, but her favorite genre is horror films (especially zombie films). She loves to be creative with a pen and paper, her knitting needles but also digital. This is also why she finds coding very exciting.

Sign up now for our event on 9 October (https://fb.me/e/1l9P2arnS)!

10/09/2021

More on our line-up of exciting speaker sessions!

Raune Frankjær: Coding into Dreamtime: Talking Plants and Digital Shamanism

Raune Frankjær is a spatial media designer focusing on digital artefacts, interactive environments and wearable technologies. Currently she works as a Postdoc at the project Growing CoDesign hosted by the Dept. of Digital Design and Information Studies at Aarhus University. Her research is practice-based and experimental and blends traditional crafts, organic materials and novel sensing technology. She is mainly interested in how digital technologies and creative-aesthetic practices can be applied as a way to reengage with the world we inhabit and build healthy relationships to the nonhumans that make up our life-world. Deeply vested into the pursuit of a more sustainable and live-able world for all of us (human and nonhuman alike), she sees the role of design and designers in imagining new and better solutions to how and what things are and how can they be done.

Sign up for our event at https://fb.me/e/4pE4AJeo3

07/09/2021

Get to know another one of our notable speakers at our event on 9 October (https://fb.me/e/1l9P2arnS)!

Nanna Debois Buhl: Loom as Computer, as Time Machine

Nanna Debois Buhl is a Copenhagen-based visual artist whose practice draws connections across time periods and between micro and macro perspectives. Through studies spanning plants and particles, clouds and computer memory she connects scientific, aesthetic, and speculative perspectives in order to nurture attentiveness to materials and to tell counter-histories. Her work materializes as photographs, weavings, installations, films, artist’s books, and site-specific works in public space. She received her MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2006) and participated in The Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program, New York (2008-09). She is currently a Mads Øvlisen PhD fellow in artistic practice at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Copenhagen University.

02/09/2021

Time for a short introduction for one of our speakers.

Kristoffer Ørum: A Human Pretending To Be An Artist Pretending To Be A Crayfish

Kristoffer Ørum (b. Copenhagen, 1975) is an interdisciplinary creature who has produced a long series of demonstrations, acts and wireless transmissions both in and outside of our solar system. Based in a basement, he works in the intersection between daily life and hypothetical digital ecologies. He holds dual degrees from Crayfish University in London and the Royal Danish Academy of Speculative Arts in Copenhagen. He believes that all artists' biographies are works of fiction and should be read as such. More about Kristoffer and other speakers can be found here: https://pcdaarhus.net/about/. Sign up now for the PCD event on our Facebook Events page!

30/08/2021

Good news: the deadline for the PCDcast Open Call has been extended! Chat about code and software now and turn in your podcast before 7 September (Tuesday)!

More details and tips at https://pcdaarhus.net/PCDcast-Open-Call/

26/08/2021

Here's the first glimpse of our speakers for PCD @ Aarhus 2021 on 9 October!

Mace Ojala: Life Alongside Code

Mace Ojala is an interdisciplinary researcher interested in software as culture. Mace teaches data visualization and computational literacies at IT University of Copenhagen, and works in the ETHOS Lab there. His research is currently focusing particularly on maintenance of software. More about Mace and other speakers here: https://pcdaarhus.net/about/. Sign up now for the PCD event on our Events page!

24/08/2021

The latest PCDcast episode is now on at https://podcast.pcdaarhus.net/!

#2 A Conversation with Artist Kristoffer Ørum
by Anders Visti

Listen to the conversation with Copenhagen based artist and educator Kristoffer Ørum. Kristoffer will be performing at the upcoming PCD in Aarhus, in a giant crayfish costume(!). The conversation revolves around kin-making, art production, community building, fiction and fabulation, teaching, music, internet and explorative code practices. The conversation partner is artist and coder Anders Visti.

Grab the chance to make your own podcast for the PCDcast Open Call! Let's talk about software and code and turn this into a podcast episode - see pcdaarhus.net for more details. Submission deadline: 31 August 2021 (next Tuesday)

19/08/2021

Why do we love coding? And why would you love it too? Check out what PCD speakers think about the endless possibilities that coding brings to this world at https://pcdaarhus.net/whycode/. Sign up now on our Facebook Events page for PCD @ Aarhus 2021 on 9 October for a wonderful experience to interact with our speakers and fellow code-lovers!

17/08/2021

Why do people love coding? Find out why it's so important and fascinating at https://pcdaarhus.net/whycode/ where our speakers over the years share their views about their practice, and their thoughts and feelings about coding. And join PCD @ Aarhus 2021 on 9 October to experience for yourself - sign up on our Facebook Events page!

12/08/2021

PCD @ Aarhus 2021 podcast has launched! Listen to the first episode now at https://podcast.pcdaarhus.net/

#1 Dorothy R. Santos, Executive Director of Processing Foundation — Why Code?
by Winnie Soon

Why does Dorothy want to engage with the coding scene even though she is not a programmer? What can we learn from Processing Foundation about building a local coding community in Aarhus? How do we make space and create a safe space for others? Dorothy R. Santos, a Filipina American writer, artist, and educator, shares her experience to artist-educator Winnie Soon, a member of the Code&Share[ ] community.

And don't forget to make your own podcast to take part in the PCDcast Open Call! Chat about software and code and turn this into a podcast episode - visit pcdaarhus.net for more details. Submission deadline: 31 August 2021 (Tuesday)

05/08/2021

While we are in the process of putting together our programme for this year, check out this recap of PCD 2020 and sign up for the 2021 edition now on our Events page https://fb.me/e/1l9P2arnS