Week 0: Original Reference
For iterating, I wanted to learn a new skill – Creative Coding. While the medium is very interesting to me as an aesthetic form, I was also intrigued by the historical and social context within which coding has grown to be an accessible gateway to a tech-oriented industry. To explore that relationship, I chose to recreate Alida Sun’s creative coding edits created in C++, overlaid with a message. Her work creates a dissonance between the use of coding and technology through its politically-charged messaging, removing the art and craft of coding from its contemporary rebranding as a technocratic weapon.