Performance / Atrium · E14, 3rd floor
Livecoding performance
With Char Stiles@charstiles
AtriumE14, 3rd floor · MIT Media Lab
Livecoding is the practice of writing code on stage, repeatedly live-compiling and changing it to make music and visuals. Char made her own esolang—a bidirectional visual and text-based programming language—for the visuals; she uses a DSL in JavaScript for the music.
Livecoding is a response to the laptop musician who might press play on a track and then check email: with livecoding, you can see the performer’s screen, so the audience will be sure if email is involved or not.
About the presenter
Char Stiles is a computational artist, educator, and programmer based in Brooklyn, NY. She works creatively in the lower levels of graphical computational systems and makes jokes about how computers work. She went to Carnegie Mellon University, where she earned a bachelor’s in fine art and computer science, and has a master’s in media arts and sciences from the MIT Media Lab. She is an associate professor in the Cooper Union computer science department. She co-founded Hex House, an artist studio and hacker space in East Williamsburg.