Venue
Vivid Projects
Date
Friday, July 23, 2021
06:00 PM
Address
16 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street Birmingham B5 5RT
Location
West Midlands
Organiser
Vivid Projects

Please join us on 23rd July 18:00 – 20:00 for (Algo|Afro) Futures, celebrating the work of four early-career Black artists who, since April 2021, have been exploring the creative potential of live coding.

The event will feature pre-recorded and live performances and artworks from:

Samir Saunders
Emily Mulenga
Rosa Francesca
Jae Tallawah

You can join the event here in Digbeth, or online  – there will be a simultaneous live stream to the Eulerroom youtube channel

Free but places are limited. Please book in advance here

Live coding is a performative practice where artists and musicians use code to create live music and live visuals. This is often done at electronic dance music events called Algoraves, but live coding is a technique rather than a genre, and has also been applied to noise music, choreography, live cinema, and many other time-based artforms. The project has been running at Vivid Projects and online. It was developed and delivered by mentors Antonio Roberts and Alex McLean, two leading artists within the UK and international live coding scene. You can read more about the project artists here .

(Algo|Afro) Futures is a mentoring programme for early career Black artists who want to explore the creative potential of live coding, organised by Antonio Roberts and Alex McLean with Then Try This and Vivid Projects, in collaboration with and funded by the UKRI research project “Music and the Internet: Towards a Digital Sociology of Music”.