Calendar
At Creative Coding Utrecht we organise a range of monthly events that cater to different interests, age groups and skill level. We aim to help you develop your connection with all things coding, no matter how foreign the subject might seem to you.
Have no idea what Creative Coding means? Have a background in programming but you wouldn’t know where to start making your own, creative stuff? Or do you simply want to enhance your pre-existing skills and create even more flashy visuals, animations and more?
Filter our events by topic and accessibility level, there is something for everyone. To look up any of our past events, check out the archive.
Ground Exhibition
Ground invites you to slow down and listen to the soil beneath your feet, the technologies we depend on, and the more-than-human rhythms that sustain us. Spread across the garden and indoor spaces of Het Hof van Cartesius, the exhibition unfolds as a living ecosystem where art, technology and ecology intertwine.
The journey begins in Sunjoo Lee’s Electric Garden, where bacteria, plants, insects and soil collaborate to generate electricity that powers a digital artwork. Among handmade clay vessels shaped to welcome new forms of life, natural and digital systems pulse together, revealing energy as something shared rather than consumed.
Nearby, Rein van der Woerd’s Solar Server keeps the exhibition alive online, using a single repurposed Android phone powered by sunlight. Built from donated materials, it reminds us that technological infrastructures (like all living systems) depend on care, limitation and light.
Inside, Stefanie Wuschitz and Patrícia Reis present the results of their workshop making Clay PCB's, circuit boards made of natural clay and ethically sourced components. Their work slows down the act of making, embracing touch, failure and repair as gestures of feminist resistance against extractive forms of technology.
From there, Benjamin Gaulon and Vincent Valéry’s Electro Agriculture reaches upward. A sculptural antenna built from discarded materials that channels atmospheric electricity into the soil. Between earth and sky, the piece imagines how digital infrastructures might one day collaborate with living organisms.
On the ground floor you'll find Mink Bol’s Luistervogel: Ausculta. It invites you to tune in to the voices of the birds inhabiting the Hof. Their interactive installation transforms listening into an act of care, reconnecting us with the subtle presence of our surroundings.
Archival materials, soil samples and portraits of the Hof’s caretakers anchor these works in the place they emerge from, a living network of human and non-human collaboration.
In the Ground Expo, art becomes an act of attunement. Each work invites you to listen differently to systems, species, and signals, and to rediscover what it means to share the ground we stand on. Come experience it yourself from 8 to 22 november!