Programming for Non-Programmers
This is a computer programming course for artists who don't necessarily have any specific intention to program, or prior knowledge of programming. Rather than specialized coding skills, this workshop intends to convey a broader understanding of programming as a creative and not always goal-oriented practice that turns out to have many similarities with what artists - like painters or sculptors - tend to do.
In times where most technology presents itself as fully opaque - mythical "algorithms" running as proprietary "apps" on obscure "cloud" platforms - it makes sense to re-evaluate to what extent, and for what purposes, the hardware, software and networks at our disposal can still be used as universal tools. The hope is that, in an artistic context, being able to read, follow, maybe even write programming languages "conversationally" can be universally empowering, regardless of concrete applications.
The workshop will be held in person at HfK Bremen in room 4.15.070 (großer Theorieraum). It will take place over the course of the week 12-16.7. Groups of students can join the workshop each day at different time slots: 10-12.30h / 13.30-16h / 16.15-18.30h
If you are interested to join the workshop, please send an email to Manana Kobakhidze with the desired slot in the day: mkobakhidze@hfk-bremen.de
LEFT: "Man reading a copy of Paul Graham's 'Hackers and Painters' (2021)" (briansnotes.io)
RIGHT: "A man with a mobile phone filming 'The Man with the Personal Computer' by Robert Luxemburg (2020) created from Dziga Vertov’s 'The Man with the Movie Camera' (1929)." (@mrmogotti)
biography
Sebastian Lütgert is an artist, programmer, writer, co-founder of Bootlab and Pirate Cinema Berlin. He has co-initiated a number of projects on intellectual property, cinema and the internet, including textz.com (2001), the cinema archive 0xdb.org, The Oil of the 21st Century project, Pad.ma, Indiancine.ma, bak.ma, 858.ma, and the open media archive pan.do/ra. He lives in Berlin.