Alex McLean, Iván Paz, Kate Sicchio, Lizzie Wilson
Patterns are fundamental to live coding, connecting our code-based practice to a long history of arts and crafts, including textile/fiber artists, bell ringers, origamists and so on. This session will focus on the sharing and remaking of patterns, exploring how they successfully (and unsuccessfully) can be translated from one medium to another, and how the computer language at play has its bearing on the resulting pattern when it is remade. We will briefly introduce a range of patterns at the start of the workshop, with participants encouraged to bring and share their own. We will then take some time to re-make the patterns in different ways, e.g. by applying a different computational paradigm and/or programming language, reimplementing a handmade pattern in code (or vice-versa), or by translating a pattern from one medium to another (perhaps creating a ‘remix chain’). We will then discuss the outcomes in the round, reflecting on what pattern-based practice can bring to live coding and vice-versa.