What does live coding know by Geoff Cox

Onto-epistemology.

An apparatus is an active productive of the object itself. The programmer produces uncertainty. Subjects and objects co-create.

How is knowledge produced? Disrupt power knowledge regimes. Introducing uncertainty is increasingly important. Code is an integral part of coding practice.

Emergent knowledge

Artistic or practice based research addresses non propositional forms. How does live coding make an argument in itself.

Alternative knowledge or non knowledge. Live coding can shape how and what we know about knowledge?

This challenges goal-oriented research design. Computation contains internal paradoxes as is shown by the halting problem.

Live coding mirrors modern labour production. The speaker refers to Yuill’s article.

Live coding exposes possibilities. It shows the uncertainty of computation.

Q: is there enough reflection of the critical potential? How would Marx critique this?

A: general intellect is absorbed into capitalism.

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Charles Céleste Hutchins

Supercolliding since 2003

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