#Livecoding for leverage

Ben Swift, School of Cybernetics

Design Guild NSW · November 2021

I’d like to acknowledge and celebrate the First Australians on whose traditional lands we meet, and pay respect to the elders past and present.

#who am I?

#outline

TimeTopic
11:05intro: livecoding (yay)
11:20but why?
11:25leverage in a cultural domain

#intro

but why?

#leverage in a cultural domain

a lever is a (designed) interface

#language = leverage (process design)

The shift from ‘architect’ to ‘gardener’ — from someone who carries a full picture of the work before it is made, to someone who plants seeds and waits to see what will come up.

Brian Eno, Composers as Gardeners

Programmers are trained to seek maximal and global solutions. Why solve a specific problem in one place when you can fix the general problem for everybody, and for all time?

Maciej Cegłowski, The Moral Economy of Tech

control & communication in the (livecoding) animal and the machine

Wiener

#ANU School of Cybernetics

come partner with us to help us figure it out

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