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Live Coding : A User's Manual
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The first comprehensive introduction to the origins, aspirations, and evolution of live coding. Performative, improvised, on the fly: live coding is about how people interact with the world and each other via code. In the last few decades, live coding has emerged as a dynamic creative practice gaining attention across cultural and technical fields--from music and the visual arts through to computer science. Live Coding: A User's Manual is the first comprehensive introduction to the practice, and a broader cultural commentary on the potential for live coding to open up deeper questions about contemporary cultural production and computational culture. This multi-authored book--by artists and musicians, software designers, and researchers--provides a practice-focused account of the origins, aspirations, and evolution of live coding, including expositions from a wide range of live coding practitioners. In a more conceptual register, the authors consider liveness, temporality, and knowledge in relation to live coding, alongside speculating on the practice's future forms.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780262544818
  • ISBN-10: 0262544814
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • Publish Date: November 2022
  • Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.93 x 0.94 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.45 pounds
  • Page Count: 352

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