Playful Machines
A playful, hands-on introduction to making with technology - from your first lines of code to a collaborative performance.
A hands-on session for anyone who wants to creatively make things with technology - artists, musicians, designers, the curious. You don't need to know how to code or be technical. You just need to be playful and curious.
Facilitated by Nigel Fryatt, who makes visuals for live acts (mostly in Resolume and TouchDesigner) and recently wrapped a fifteen-speaker sound system around the Roman Baths with Bath Carnival. A regular on independent festival crews and Founder of POLYMATHIC.
You'lll start with code - how a few lines can motion graphics on a screen, and why it's far more approachable than it looks. Then we'll get into AI: making media with it, and talking honestly about what that means for creativity and authorship. We'll finish by making a collaborative performance.
Who it's for
Total beginners and dabblers alike. If you can type, you can do this.
Bring
A laptop. We'll have spares too.
