Graham Wakefield

Performance submission deadline: 16th February 2015

Paper submission deadline: 1st March 2015

13-15th July 2015, University of Leeds, UK

With pleasure we announce the first International Conference on Live Coding, hosted by ICSRiM in the School of Music, University of Leeds, UK, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the Live Coding Research Network.

This conference follows a long line of international events on liveness in computer programming; the Changing Grammars live audio programming symposium in Hamburg 2004, the LOSS Livecode festival in Sheffield 2007, the annual Vivo festivals in Mexico City from 2012, the live.code.festival in Karlsruhe, the LIVE workshop at ICSE on live programming, and Dagstuhl Seminar 13382 on Collaboration and Learning through Live Coding in 2013, the Breathing Code conference in Frankfurt 2015, as well as numerous workshops, concerts, algoraves and conference special sessions. It also follows a series of Live Coding Research Network symposia on diverse topics, and the activities of the TOPLAP community since 2004. We hope that this conference will act as a confluence for all this work, helping establish live coding as an interdisciplinary field, exploring liveness in symbolic abstractions, and understanding the perceptual, creative, productive, philosophical and cultural consequences.

The following long list of topics, contributed by early career researchers in the field, are indicative of the breadth of research we wish to include:

Live coding and the body; tangibility, gesture, embodiment

Live coding in education, teaching and learning

Live coding terminology and the cognitive dimensions of notation

Domain specific languages, and the live coding ecosystem

Programming language experience design: visualising live process and state in code interfaces

Virtuosity, flow, aesthetics and phenomenology of live code

Live coding: composition, improvisation or something else?

Time in notation, process, and perception

Live coding of and inside computer games and virtual reality

Live programming languages as art: esoteric and idiosyncratic systems

Individual expression in shared live coding environments

Live coding across the senses and algorithmic synaesthesia

Audience research and ethnographies of live coding

Live coding before Live Coding; historical perspectives on live programming languages

Heritage, vintage and nostalgia – bringing the past to life with code

Cultural processes of live programming language design

General purpose live programming languages and live coding operating systems

Connecting live coding with ancient arts or crafts practice

Live coding and the hacker/maker movement: DIY and hacker aesthetics

Critical reflections; diversity in the live coding community

The freedom of liveness, and free/open source software

Performance submission deadline: 16th February 2015
Paper submission deadline: 1st March 2015

Live coding and the body; tangibility, gesture, embodiment
Creative collaboration through live code
Live coding in education, teaching and learning
Live coding terminology and the cognitive dimensions of notation
Live language and interface design
CUIs: Code as live user interface
Domain specific languages, and the live coding ecosystem
Programming language experience design: visualising live process and state in code interfaces
Virtuosity, flow, aesthetics and phenomenology of live code
Live coding: composition, improvisation or something else?
Time in notation, process, and perception
Live coding of and inside computer games and virtual reality
Live programming languages as art: esoteric and idiosyncratic systems
Bugfixing in/as performance
Individual expression in shared live coding environments
Live coding across the senses and algorithmic synaesthesia
Audience research and ethnographies of live coding
Live coding without computers
Live coding before Live Coding; historical perspectives on live programming languages
Heritage, vintage and nostalgia – bringing the past to life with code
Live coding in public and in private
Cultural processes of live programming language design
General purpose live programming languages and live coding operating systems
Connecting live coding with ancient arts or crafts practice
Live coding and the hacker/maker movement: DIY and hacker aesthetics
Critical reflections; diversity in the live coding community
The freedom of liveness, and free/open source software


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