Reviewing

Regen Circuit

Max Bennett, Edgardo Avilés-López, Sumanth Srinivasan, Chirag Davé, Omar Delarosa, Sarika Doppalapudi, Kengchakaj Kengkarnka, Nitcha Tothong, Cameron Alexander, Carla Guzman, Riho Hagi, Roxanne Harris, Viola He, Katarina Hoeger, Sylvia Ke, Kofi Oduro, Nico Perey, Melody Loveless, Mary Marks, Daniel McKemie, Jessica Garson, Liam Baum, Caitlin Cawley, Andrew Yoon, Jessica Stringham, Jay Tobin, Loren Tyler, Indira Ardolic, Emma Waddell, Shelly Xiong

Featuring Archaic Reckoner, casualsalad, emptyflash, LAVA, Messica Arson, MYLAR, Ramsey Nasser, PRESWERVE, Snow Schwartz, Kate Sicchio, Sabrina Sims, Gwen Pasquerello, thisxorthat

Image on left: ele-khle-kha อีเหละเขละขละ at Wonderville. Image on right: Messica Arson live coding sound and visuals on a street corner in Brooklyn, NY
Left: ele-khle-kha อีเหละเขละขละ at Wonderville. Right: Messica Arson live coding sound and visuals on a street corner in Brooklyn, NY

DATES AND TIMES
Opening April 28 and closing May 14th
Open to the public Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11am-4:45 pm

LOCATION: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island

Calendar of Events

Exhibition

Live coding is the act of using algorithms to change an ongoing system, like music or visuals, as part of an artistic expression. Regen Circuit is an art and tech exhibition featuring LiveCode.NYC, a social group and artist collective dedicated to live coding. During their residency at the Harvestworks Art and Technology Building, members will host performances, conduct workshops and presentations, and showcase art. Installation, video, sculpture, and more will be on display. Regen Circuit aims to bring people together to celebrate the art of live coding while creating moments to connect and reflect on the efforts and visions of people in our community.

Participants include: Archaic Reckoner (Sumanth Srinivasan + Matthew Kaney), Edgardo Avilés-López, Max Bennett, casualsalad (Chirag Davé), Omar Delarosa, Sarika Doppalapudi, ele-khle-kha อีเหละเขละขละ (Kengchakaj Kengkarnka and Nitcha Tothong), emptyflash (Cameron Alexander), Carla Guzman, Riho Hagi, Roxanne Harris, Viola He, Katarina Hoeger, Sylvia Ke, Illest Preacha (Kofi Oduro), LAVA (Nico Perey), Melody Loveless, Mary Marks, Daniel McKemie, Messica Arson (Jessica Garson), Mister Bomb (Liam Baum), MYLAR (Caitlin Cawley and Melody Loveless), Ramsey Nasser, PRESWERVE, Snow Schwartz, Kate Sicchio, Sabrina Sims, Michael Simpson, thisxorthat (Jessica Stringham), Jay Tobin, Loren Tyler, Voyde (Indira Ardolic), Emma Waddell, Shelly Xiong, and Andrew Yoon. Read more about the participants here.


Left: Sabrina Sims and Gwen Pasquerello performing at an algorave. Right: Archaic Reckoner

About LiveCode.NYC

LiveCode.NYC is a New York City-based leaderless social group and artist collective devoted to the real-time programming technique called live coding. Members include artists, engineers, actors, designers, educators, musicians, game developers, and writers. The group has no formal membership or hierarchy, and anyone is welcome to join, attend, participate in, and host algoraves.

Live coding and algoraves (algorithm + rave) are global movements, they “are a way to experience something as abstract as algorithmic music with your whole body, with your mind and with your feet, and everything in between” (Alex McLean). Where traditional music and visuals are effectively opaque, a key component to live coding is transparency, performers display the code which produces the sights and sounds the audience experiences. Some guiding principles of our community include: Exposing algorithmic processes, being wary of established institutions, collapsing hierarchies, respecting other communities, equitable diversity and inclusion in lineups and audiences, and making space for experimentation and failure.

Website: livecode.nyc
Instagram:@livecodenyc 

PAST INTERVIEWS AND PRESS COVERAGE

  1. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/style/live-code-music.html 
  2. https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5wgp7/who-killed-the-american-demoscene-synchrony-demoparty  

This is a Satellite Event for this year’s International Conference of Live Coding (ICLC)
Event organized by Melody Loveless
Posters and flyers by Snow Schwartz and Voyde (Indira Ardolic)

Archaic Reckoner

Archaic Reckoner is Sumanth Srinivasan and Matthew Kaney. Sumanth’s
solo computer-songwriter project, Reckoner, has released a full length album and
several EPs. Drawing from krautrock, trip hop and glitch, his music is a fusion of
live sampling, guitar, live coded rhythms and melodic vocals. Matthew builds tools
for live coding, performing music and visuals as archaic.tech. Together and
independently, they’ve performed a series of shows in both New York and western
Europe.

Edgardo Avilés-López

Edgardo Avilés-López (he/him) is a Mexican engineer, researcher, and artist currently living and working in NYC. His work combines photography, drawing, prototyping, and creative coding and is focused in exploring how technology and art can be used as amplifiers of curiosity, opportunity, and happiness. He received a MSc and a PhD in Computer Science from the CICESE Research Center. Since 2012 he has been a member of Torolab, an interdisciplinary art collective based in Tijuana, Mexico. The collective works on projects that seek to improve qualify of life through art. Website: eavl.co. Instagram: @eavilsesl. Twitter: @eaviles.

Max Bennett

Max Bennett (he/him) is a creative technologist working to ground, critique, and laugh at our relationship with tech. Max holds a B.S. in Cognitive + Brain Sciences and Computer Science from Tufts University, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University. In the past, he developed an open source python package for predicting human fMRI responses to visual stimuli (imgtofmri), designed and developed XR physical therapy minigames with/for teens with cerebral palsy, and worked as a technical product manager in humanoid robotics and robotic sortation. He scrambles human-computer interaction, neuroscience, and mixed-media to play with assumptions of what is physical vs. virtual and public vs. private. Max lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Illest Preacha

Kofi Oduro (Illestpreacha) is a Creative Coder & Experience Enhancer, who merges an array of mediums to provide unique experiences that promote discussion, reflection, and interaction. With over 10 years of performance, event production and audiovisual output globally, he takes inspiration from creative endeavors that are not normally seen together to create a harmonic experience for audience and users alike.
His artistic practice is an observation of the world around us that he puts into artworks for others to relate to or disagree with. Through Videography, Poetry and Creative Coding, He tries to highlight the realms of the human performance and the human mind in different scenarios. These situations can be described as social, internal, or even biological, which we face in our everyday lives. Adding music and visuals often helps to perceive one’s own feelings, and to highlight the different subtleties that make us human. With a dose of technology, there is an endless range of progress in human creative endeavours.

Daniel McKemie

Daniel McKemie (he/him) is an electronic musician, composer, and
percussionist based in New York City. He focuses on utilizing the internet and
browser technology to realize a more accessible platform for multimedia art. His
current work includes realizing historical instruments, musical tools, and audio
processing units in the browser; and finding new ways of remote collaboration
through WebRTC, WebSockets, and shared networks. His music has been performed in
Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia; and his research on computer music and
web-based audio/composition techniques has been presented and published
internationally in conferences as part of the Korean Electro-acoustic Music Society,
the Australasian Computer Music Association, the International Symposium on Computer
Music Multidisciplinary Research, the Society of Electro-acoustic Music in the
United States (SEAMUS), among others. Website: danielmckemie.com. Instagram:
@danielmckemie.

MYLAR

MYLAR is a multimedia performance duo that combines percussion, voice, sampling, and live coding by Caitlin Cawley and Melody Loveless.

PRESWERVE

PRESWERVE is an experimental-electronic producer, writer (poet/journalist), and digital media creator. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, she is now based in Brooklyn, NY. PRESWERVE blends influences from trap, shoegaze, ambient, and noise. She also solely runs an independent media company Let’s Not Pretend, which focuses on experimental sounds, visuals, and art. Her company seeks to find communities and learn about culture by engaging in conversations and shows. More equipped in FL, she wants to challenge her musical abilities by trying new formats – such as coding. As a coding beginner, she is excited to immerse herself in something new. Not only an educator, PRESWERVE is also familiar with a variety of disciplines, as she is completely self-taught in all of her art and music. She has created album artwork, music videos, digital and physical collages, and loves to write. Her poetry has been published in her college magazine and Beast Grrrl zine. In the past, she has attended EMP collective’s poetry workshops and performed at multiple poetry readings/writings. Only having the chance to perform at small Baltimore open mics and poetry readings, PRESWERVE is ready to begin new journeys into live-coding and performing music for others.

Kate Sicchio

Kate Sicchio (she/they) is a choreographer, media artist and performer whose work explores the interface between choreography and technology with wearable technology, live coding, and real time systems. Her work has been shown in the US, Germany, Australia, Belgium, Sweden, and the UK at venues such as PS122 (NYC), Banff New Media Institute (CAN), Arnolfini Arts (UK). She co-edited the book Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice: Techne/Technique/Technology (Routledge) with Dr. Camille Baker. She has given invited talks at EU Parliament, Eyeo, Resonate, Node Code, Expo ‘74 and countless universities and events across the globe. She has presented work at many conferences and symposia including SIGCHI, ISEA, ACM Creativity and Cognition, and Dance Studies Association. She is currently Assistant Professor of Dance and Media Technology at Virginia Commonwealth University in both the Department of Dance + Choreography and Department of Kinetic Imaging. Website: sicchio.com. Twitter and Instagram: @sicchio.

Sabrina Sims

Sabrina Sims (she/her) is a bi Black Puerto Rican chronically ill artist from the Bronx. Her saturated multimedia work focuses on Black cosmic tech, softness as a tactile-emotional feeling and community idea sharing. She enjoys synthesizing mediums including printmaking/zines, textiles, biomaterials and livecoded audiovisuals. Sabrina organizes several COVID safer DIY music events and art fairs with a focus on accessibility for disabled creatives. Skill-sharing, workshops and other community building opportunities for other Black Indigenous people is a central part of her practice.

Michael Simpson

Michael Simpson (he/him) is an award-winning anti-disciplinary artist,
engineer, musician, and educator based in New York City. Michael’s artistic work is
often in the form of screen-based visuals, music, and/or physical installations.
Michael’s academic work focuses on the application of sound analysis, music
information retrieval, and machine learning for the purpose of creative
applications. Michael holds a Master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Technology
Program where he currently teaches serving as an adjunct faculty.

Voyde

Voyde, aka Indira Ardolic, is a New Media Artist and Creative Technologist from New York. She employs digital technologies to recreate experiences and dreams, merging mysticism with technology. Her favorite themes include celebrating queerness, destigmatizing mental health, and uplifting marginalized identities. She seeks to use game engines to enable unique interactions, providing a deeper understanding of our humanity. She discovered games as a perfect escape from reality during her youth. Now, she sees games and interactive 3D media as the ultimate love letter to reality itself—how beautiful is it that we learned math to mimic the movement of water? It feels like creating an illusion of a grander life, one so compact it can be held in your hand.

Andrew Yoon

Andrew Yoon (he/him) is a New York-based Korean-American artist involved in music, poetry, and computers. Lately he is writing poems that change, making sounds with code, and sharing his love of reeds through the Melodica Drone and Bach Quartet. He is the founder of the arts journal and small press Nothing to Say. As a free culture advocate, everything he makes is under copyleft licenses. Website: andrewyoon.art.

Chirag Davé (aka casualsalad)

Chirag Davé (they/them) is a Brooklyn based experimental musician and sound artist performing under the moniker casualsalad. They try to create evocative ambient soundscapes using field recordings, modular synthesis, and their voice. Inspired by the free jazz movement and structureless improvisation they collaborate with the cosmos and embrace uncertainty. Chirag actively performs in various US cities at music festivals, theaters and galleries, organized/co-organized experimental multi-modal art shows such as EMOTIONS FEST, and algoraves for LivecodeNYC.

Omar Delarosa

Omar Delarosa (he/him) uses AI/ML techniques and models alongside
live-coding tools to drive synthesizers and samplers and explore the intersection
between music, computer science and artificial life. He’s been making music since
his teens using a mixture of guitars, old synths and computers. His favorite
organisms are jellyfish and fungi.

Sarika Doppalapudi

Sarika Doppalapudi (she/her) is an undergraduate student at NYU
Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her concentration is focused on collective
memory in public spaces, and examines the ways in which disenfranchised communities
remember and archive events. Sarika was born and raised in Chicago, and has worked
with various non-profits and grassroots organizations in Chicago, including working
as a co-founder and organizer for Fempowerment Chicago, and research assistant for
The I Project. Additionally, she has worked with the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Chicago, as an artist in the 21Minus exhibition, and through hosting an interactive
walk-through of the Prisoner of Love exhibition. Furthermore, she has hosted a
workshop at Chicago’s Weinberg Newton gallery entitled “Revolutionary Love”.
Sarika’s work explores archival spaces and their uses as spaces of liberation. She
is also a freelance baker and textile artist and is interested in using
non-traditional materials to create her textiles, and is currently working on a
crochet project using plastic waste that she collected over the summer of 2021.

Carla Guzman

Carla Guzman is a visual artist who intersects abstract expressionism
matrices with technology. She uses coding based visualizers and experiments with
Euclidean beats on tidal cycles. She enjoys improvising her visuals with musicians
in the community and is developing her sound. Instagram: @estefanylikes.

Sylvia Ke

Sylvia Ke (any/all) is a multimedia artist, performer, creative
technologist, first-gen immigrant (legal, for now), and transexual degenerate living
and aging in Brooklyn, NY. In their thoughts and works, they contemplate a lot about
how existing and emerging technologies transform, redefine, and create bodies,
intimacy, materiality, myth, labor, and spacetime, while vice versa. Their hobby is
to suck on the juicy, rubbery nails of pickled chicken feet and describe it to
people in graphical details.

Nico Perey

Nico Perey (they/she) – aka LAVA is a multi-disciplinary artist that focuses on “live-coding”. LAVA aims to explore the beauty of computing in unconventional ways by taking inspiration from the physical and digital world and finding ways they compare and contrast.

Melody Loveless

Melody Loveless is a musician, performer, educator, creative
technologist, and multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work ranges from live
coding performance, generative sound installations, multisensory performance, and
more. An active performer and member of the NYC creative community, she has
performed around the city in various venues, including Babycastles, Wonderville,
(le) poisson rouge, Performance Space New York, and Eyebeam. Additionally, she has
also organized/co-organized events including various concerts/performances,
exhibitions, conferences, hackathons, and more. Past honors include artist
residencies (local and international), performances and talks at conferences and
festivals, and awards and press for her music and work as a creative technologist
(see below for details). She has presented talks on music education and her artistic
practice for various organizations and events including the New Music Gathering,
Monthly Music Hackathon, Bates Digital Music Symposium, and Pathways: Art and
Technology. As an educator, she has taught in various institutes and organizations
including New York University, the New School, Hunter College, Music Hackspace, and
Harvestworks. She is also part of the first cohort of Cycling 74’s Max Certified
Trainer Program.

Liam Baum

Liam Baum – aka Mister Bomb (he/him) is a musician and educator who has
spent the past several years exploring how coding and technology can be incorporated
into creative music making experiences for performance and composition. He
experiments with methods such as live coding, physical computing and machine
learning. He brings these methods into his own middle school classrooms as well as
having led several workshops both in person and virtually about combining music with
coding and technology using different languages and hardware. Website:
www.youtube.com/mrbombmusic. Twitter: @mrbombmusic.

Caitlin Cawley

Caitlin Cawley (she/her) is a percussionist, improviser and educator
based in Brooklyn, NY. She’s interested in the capacity of live performance to
engender empathy and facilitate authentic contact between human beings. She has
played, sang, danced and yelled in concert halls, garages, bars, living rooms,
kitchens, forests, art galleries and rooftops – using megaphones, triangles, gongs,
drums, balloons, lamps, speaker drivers, vibraphones, EMT pipes, plastic buckets,
tin cans, wine glasses, styrofoam, power tools, and paper airplanes – with newts,
birds, Talujon, Mantra Percussion, Talea Ensemble, Heartbeat Opera, Cantata Profana,
The Walter Thompson Orchestra, Slavic Soul Party!, Novus NY, Peydah Company, Gamelan
Galak Tika, Brian Adler’s Human Time Machine, Danse Theatre Surreality, NE14 Dance,
Bash The Trash, I Dewa Ketut Alit, Paul Pinto, Richard Kim, Sarah Chien and MYLAR.
She studied with David Cossin, Jeff Milarsky, John Ferrari, Tim Genis and Sam
Solomon. Website: www.caitlincawley.me. Instagram: @caitlincawleymusic.

MYLAR (Melody Loveless and Caitlin Cawley)

MYLAR is a musical and multimedia art project by Moledoy Loveless and Caitlin Cawley. In this project, Loveless samples Cawley’s output using Sonic Pi. They improvise with each other by responding to each other’s output, constantly working with feedback loops.

Messica Arson

Jessica Garson aka Messica Arson ventured into the live coding scene in 2017 while seeking
gigs for her new punk solo project utilizing Sonic Pi. Since then, her sound has
significantly transformed, emerging as a unique fusion of live sampling, modular
synthesis, and live coding. A defining feature of her music is the incorporation of
screaming, adding a layer of rawness. Messica has showcased her talent across the
US, Canada, and Europe, opening for notable artists such as Oliver Ackerman of A
Place to Bury Strangers and Eric Schlappi from Schlappi Engineering. She has been an
active member of LivecodeNYC since 2017; she has played a vital role in organizing
and planning shows for the collective.

Jessica Stringham (this.xor.that)

Jessica Stringham (this.xor.that) is a creative coder and visualist based in Brooklyn. Using custom-written software, they manipulate visuals live using time, the environment, MIDI input, or a combination using expressions. They have performed live visuals around NYC. They also create generative and pen plotter art.

Jay Tobin

Jay Tobin (he/him) is an audiovisual artist based out of Brooklyn, New
York. He’s been featured at the Millennium Film Workshop, ARS Electronica, and the
Creative Code Festival at Lightbox NYC. He specializes in creative coding,
procedural soundscapes, and digital instrument building, with extensive experience
building games in Unity. He’s currently working on his passion project polyMorph — a
free, generative software instrument designed for both live performance and studio
use.

Loren Tyler

Loren Tyler (she/they) is a Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist
whose work explores new possibilities in texture, geometry, pattern, and structure,
using a combination of electronic and physical techniques. Visual works use modern
robotic manufacturing equipment with traditional art printing methods. Audio works
merge natural acoustics with digital processing. Both mediums aim to find the
balance of intricate technical detail and precision against the variation of natural
materials. Instagram: @loren.tyler.prints.

Emma Waddell

Emma Waddell (they/them) is a computer scientist and musician who
recently graduated from NYU Gallatin. Their work is focused on how natural and
biological processes influence algorithmic and computer music. This includes
biological simulations, and the use of neural networks, as well as the study of
communication using linguistics, and data sonification and visualization. They have
received multiple research grants to study these ideas, and create new music using
their computer and their saxophone. Some recent projects have included building an
artificial intelligence through Supercollider that can interact with a live acoustic
input and generate livecoding beats at varying intensities, and a video game that
takes user input into a neural network and generates a live soundtrack trained on
user choices.

Shelly Xiong

Creative technologist – retro tech enthusiast – sometimes educator