The ANU Laptop Ensemble

Dr Ben Swift

code 2k18 — a media conference of platforms, devices and screens

code is my instrument

code / creativity / culture

a research group making space for where code, creativity and culture meet

software · the arts · everyday life

a team effort

Alec Hunter — School of Music

Jean-Philippe Demarais — School of Art & Design

plus many more

the provocation

the next generation of new-media creators are spread across the whole campus

but silos stifle it

departmental boundaries keep them apart

de-silofication drives (innovation, entrepreneurship) are too crassly commercial to help

LENS

the ANU Laptop Ensemble, run through TechLauncher

~10 students from computer science, art and music

how it’s gone

creatively — student-driven gigs around campus

pedagogically — lots of missing knowledge between domains

administratively — creation without critique

what can we do to release this huge untapped potential?

thanks

[email protected] · benswift.me