Reviewing

Regen Circuit: A LiveCode.NYC Residency

Indira Ardolic, Max Bennett, ele-khle-kha, Roxanne Harris, Viola He, LAVA, Kofi Oduro, Kate Sicchio, Sabrina Sims, Snow Schwartz, Sumanth Srinivasan, this.xor.that, Jay Tobin, Loren Tyler, Shelly Xiong, Andrew Yoon

Featuring mgs, emptyflash

Left: A picture of “soft synths” by Sabrina Sims for AlgoClub: Dark Mode, part of the Pink Flamingo: Clubs In Flux Group Exhibition at the cell theatre. Performers mgs and emptyflash are seen through ribbins and recycled e-waste. Middle: “The Poetron” by Andrew Yoon. Right: A still from Kate Sicchio’s “studio//stage”

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

Featuring video, installation, sculpture, and more, this exhibition includes works by Indira Ardolic, Max Bennett, ele-khle-kha āļ­āļĩāđ€āļŦāļĨāļ°āđ€āļ‚āļĨāļ°āļ‚āļĨāļ° (Kengchakaj Kengkarnka and Nitcha Tothong), Roxanne Harris, Viola He, LAVA, Kofi Oduro, Kate Sicchio, Sabrina Sims, Snow Schwartz, Sumanth Srinivasan, this.xor.that, Jay Tobin, Loren Tyler, Shelly Xiong, and Andrew Yoon. 

A banner for Regen Circuit: A LiveCode.NYC Residency at the Harvestworks Art and Technology Program on Governors Island. Building 10a, Nolan Park.
Regen Circuit: A LiveCode.NYC Residency at the Harvestworks Art and Technology Program

On Exhibition

Perception Box
Max Bennett
Finally! The computer faces itself—bathing in blue light and constantly perceiving.

Jitr–āļˆāļīāļ•āļĢ print series (Control, Questions, and Thai music)
elekhlekha–āļ­āļĩāđ€āļŦāļĨāļ°āđ€āļ‚āļĨāļ°āļ‚āļĨāļ° (Nitcha Tothong, Kengchakaj Kengkarnka)
Medium: Custom software created with P5 and Hydra code, plotted with Uni-Ball Signo Broad Gel Pen, Mohawk Loop Antique Vellum Grey Paper
Jitr-āļˆāļīāļ•āļĢ reclaims the long-lost innovation–the effects of classism, colonialists, imperialism, and nationalism–and reimagines the new process using Southeast Asia tuning systems, philosophy, and indigenous knowledge to create new work and define its unique forms. These visuals assemble performing documents using words extracted from crucial Thai radical thinker and writer Jitr Poumisak, who was seen as a threat to Thai authorities and killed in 1966, synthesized with archived materials.


Doom Scroll
Sumanth Srinivasan
A series of digitally manipulated images that samples recurring motifs and textures from my sketchbook, kept over the last two years as a method of processing the COVID-19 pandemic and its wake.


Visual Collection
Curated by Indira Ardolic
This collection features visuals by LiveCode.NYC members: emptyflash, LAVA, Messica Arson, Nitcha Fame, Snow Schwartz, this.xor.that, Viola He, and themself.

Slideshow
Organized by Indira Ardolic and Melody Loveless
A slideshow featuring LiveCode.NYC members over the years. This slideshow features crowd-sourced materials, is a work-in-progress, and the beginning of an archive.


Reading Nook
Curated by Melody Loveless
A collection of articles and other reading materials written by and/or about LiveCode.NYC members. An area to reflect and read.


our a/synchronicity
Sabrina Sims
“our a/synchronicity” is a textile, biomaterial and mixed media installation.  It is an altar and portal that embodies digital disconnection & softness as tactile and emotional quality. Sabrina selected the materials for this piece with a focus on contrast & harmony between colorwork, texture and transparency. This piece is part of Sabrina’s series “soft synth poems”, which focuses on tactile-emotional site specific installations in DIY tech venues and playful reuse of craft materials.


Interweb
Snow Schwartz

This is a space for reimagining our relationships with technology. It is also a space to grieve current relationships we are coerced into holding with technology inside capitalism. In this installation, I ask what it would mean to treat technology as memory – as something that connects time and is distributed among people through careful practices of sharing. Finally, this is a space to uplift the work people are already doing to build and sustain technologies that are life affirming and rooted in community needs. I invite everyone visiting to share resources, stories, reflections, or anything that might help us form more symbiotic relationships with technology.


Structure 1 (11” x 9.5”)
Structure 2 through 7 (Each 7” x 7”)
Loren Tyler
Medium: Drypoint engravings
The Structure series explores the interaction between calculated precision and the physical world. Multiple factors such as paper texture, tool pressure, and overlapping lines bring the digital linework to life. Each piece is intended to be viewed as sculpture, light flowing through the structure, catching on each bend and curve.


Nostalgia for the Future
Shelly Xiong
This installation explores the intersection of nostalgia and technology. It features several TVs that are playing a continuous loop of visuals on VHS tapes. The footage is a mix of old and new, and it captures moments from the artist’s life, livecoded visuals, and analog art. The installation is also interactive. Visitors can play, rewind, and control the visuals that are displayed by removing and adding unlabeled VHS tapes to the VCRs. It is a reminder that even though technology changes, our memories remain.


The Poetron
Andrew Yoon
The poetron is an interactive poem-generating installation. Housed in a small wooden box, it generates and prints new versions of poems on receipts for visitors to take home. The poetron has been installed in a variety of contexts, including short term events and extended gallery displays. In each installation, the poetron generates new realizations of a particular chance poem.


Playlist Room

There Isn’t Nothing
Indira Ardolic
A game / experience about recursion, self reflection, and losing your mind.  Made in Unreal Engine.

Jitr āļˆāļīāļ•āļĢ 
elekhlekha

Jitr āļˆāļīāļ•āļĢ uses computer programing, Southeast Asia’s sound cultures, historical research, historical archive footage and sounds, and generative visual art to reconcile the lost connection of Southeast Asia’s shared heritage.

WCCChallenge: WhereILive – FloralSeasonalCycles
Illest Preacha

This video was created for the “#WCCChallenge Prompt: Where I live.” I decided to do an audiovisual collage of footage and sounds that I have taken over the years. Then remixed them with Locomotion, Hydra, LiveCodingYoutube & SonicPi to tell the Story. Recoded a previous Locomotion [Choreo to represent the distress that the plants go through (rain, heat, ice, wind , construction: A Montreal staple and the four seasons). In the intro component, the colours seen are represented the fall and how the leaves change colours during this season. Aided by an additional filter over the Locomotion Choreo, the blue tint that can be seen in some of the locomotion portions is to represent ice and winter as I wanted all four seasons to have a moment in this sketch. To represent the construction and iciness that can occur in the city, I used Hydra to make an effect that blurred the image as if the camera was “glazed” with ice. View the code for the project at: https://blog.illestpreacha.com/wccchallenge-whereilive


moving water // transcending spirals 
LAVA

This piece shows the quick turnaround of what it’s like to code with GLSL — a medium that LAVA frequents in. GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) is a coding language that operates in the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) as opposed to the CPU, and can be used to create images through manipulating the pixels on a machine. Through the power of GLSL, words of code are created and changed in real time to produce a visual that was different from the one before it. The simple use of changing variables, coordinates, and trigonometry makes a sea of pink pixels change from moving water to transcending spirals, giving the look of “digital lava”.


Algorithmic Screen Dance Study
Video/Code/Choreography: Kate Sicchio
Dancers: Tamara Denson, Taylor Colimore
This screen dance work manipulates frame rates through algorithmic means to edit short loops of movement into emergent compositions. It does so using a bespoke live coding language for video choreography called Studio//Stage. Studio//Stage is a JsoLang that works as part of the Estuary environment, building on the video language CineCer0. 

Oscilloscope
this.xor.that

Oscilloscope’s visuals are created in custom software where everything is configurable with simple oscillations. The video shows livecoded oscillations being layered in time and space to create complex patterns synced to audio. The audio is created in TidalCycles.


In Noise
Jay Tobin

“In Noise” meanders through monochromatic tides to find resolution in a moment of meditative peace. Made with TouchDesigner and Max/MSP.

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.

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.

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.

elekhlekha āļ­āļĩāđ€āļŦāļĨāļ°āđ€āļ‚āļĨāļ°āļ‚āļĨāļ°

elekhlekha (Nitcha Tothong–āļ“āļīāļŠāļŠāļē āđ‚āļ•āļ—āļ­āļ‡ & Kengchakaj–āđ€āļāđˆāļ‡āļ‰āļāļēāļˆ) is a Bangkok-born collaborative artist practice focusing on research that examines and decoded past histories by creating, using code, algorithm, multimedia, and technology to experiment, explore, and define decolonized possibilities. They are currently based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). elekhlekha has received support from Babycastles, Rhizome, Processing Foundation and etc. In 2022, they were awarded The Lumen Prize Gold Award for their debut project, Jitr (āļˆāļīāļ•āļĢ), a performative audio-visual that utilizes historical research, Southeast Asian sound cultures, and live coding tools to reconcile Southeast Asia’s shared heritage.

Roxanne Harris

Roxanne Harris (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist. She approaches
programming as a medium for creative expression. Roxanne specializes in programming
as performance, modifying real-time processes to create dynamic audiovisual
experiences. She spends her time finding new ways to engage with the world,
destructing and reconstructing existing structures as she goes. Website:
alsoknownasrox.com. Instagram and Twitter: @alsoknownasrox.

Viola He

Viola He (they/them) is a Shanghai-born, Brooklyn-based programmer and
interdisciplinary artist. Inspired and grounded by histories of subcultures and
resistance movements, their creative practices engage with hardware, computing,
movements and various time-based media, as pathways to explore alternative
structures for humans and machines in a time of crisis.

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.

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.

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.

Snow Schwartz

This is a space for reimagining our relationships with technology. It
is also a space to grieve current relationships we are coerced into holding with
technology inside capitalism. In this installation, I ask what it would mean to
treat technology as memory – as something that connects time and is distributed
among people through careful practices of sharing. Finally, this is a space to
uplift the work people are already doing to build and sustain technologies that are
life affirming and rooted in community needs. I invite everyone visiting to share
resources, stories, reflections, or anything that might help us form more symbiotic
relationships with technology.

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.

Shelly Xiong

Creative technologist – retro tech enthusiast – sometimes educator

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.

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.

Cameron Alexander

Cameron Alexander (aka emptyflash) is an artist, programmer, and
scientist based in New York. His work explores the relationship between math and
nature (especially in fractals, feedback, and non-linear systems), altered and
esoteric states of consciousness, and the essence of reality through generative art,
livecoded performances, and alternative process photography. Cameron received his
B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Houston in 2015. He has been
creating generative art since 2011, and his work has been exhibited, installed, and
performed in galleries, theaters, clubs, and venues across the U.S. Cameron is a
member of the New York-based collective livecode.nyc, where he organizes shows,
gives livecoding workshops, and performs livecoded visuals and music at algoraves.

Archaic Reckoner (Sumanth Srinivasan + Matthew Kaney)

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.