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.
Meetup Code, Clay & kinship
What does technology look like when shaped through feminist, queer, and decolonial perspectives? During the meetup Code, Clay and Kinship, three artists and researchers invite us to explore approaches that foreground care, reciprocity, and materiality in our entanglements with more-than-human life.
Artist and researcher Patrícia J. Reis will present her recent projects exploring embodied interfaces, intimacy, and consent. Through feminist hacking and sensory interaction, her work investigates how living and technological systems intertwine, opening questions of agency and ethics in our relations with machines.
Stefanie Wuschitz will share her ongoing research into feminist, queer, and decolonial approaches to technology, with a particular focus on digital colonialism. Her perspective highlights how the infrastructures of the digital world reproduce systems of power, and how feminist practices can intervene to create spaces for care and resistance.
Xandra van der Eik introduces their methodology of materiality of place: a situated approach that investigates the intersections of ecological, cultural, and political realities. Through artistic fieldwork and material experimentation, they explore how technology mediates our relationship to place, and how situated knowledge can transform technological practice.
This evening does not aim to provide ready-made solutions, but to ground a conversation: What would it mean to design devices that attune to the rhythms of other species? How can technology be thought of as kin, rather than as a neutral tool or an extractive force?
Code, Clay and Kinship also serves as the theoretical framework for the workshop Feminist Hardware: Making Printed Circuit Boards with Natural Clay, where participants will experiment with natural materials and recycled metals to imagine new forms of hardware.
Together, the talks and workshop form part of Ground, Creative Coding Utrecht’s long-term artistic research programme into ecological attunement, multispecies collaboration, and the possibilities of Zoöp as a model for living and making with others.