Code as information and code as spectacle. Issue 2 (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Roberts, Charles
• Is Part Of: International journal of performance arts and digital media. Volume 12:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 201
• Page End: 206
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: Live coding -- psychology of programming -- notation -- audiences -- algorithms; Performance art -- Periodicals; Performance art -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Digital media -- Periodicals; Digital media; Performance art; Periodicals; 700.285
• DOI: 10.1080/14794713.2016.1227602
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2040-0934

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this artist statement, I will discuss the tension between source code as an interactive system for performers and source code as information and entertainment for audiences in live-coding performances. I then describe augmentations I developed for the presentation of source code in the live-coding environment Gibber, including animations and annotations that visually reveal aspects of system state during performances. I briefly describe audience responses to these techniques and, more importantly, how they are critical to my own artistic practice.