French word for "heatwave" is "canicule" which means "little dog" in Latin but unlike a little dog it's neither cute or full of love

Maybe I should move to London

Squiggly line generator

I'm curious, who here intends to submit a paper/performance/installation/workshop to ICLC 2027?
https://iclc.toplap.org/2027/

#livecoding #ICLC #ICLC2027

Going home from giving a two days workshop on livecoding together with @yaxu at @imal, it was a lot of fun!

We made music with Strudel, learned to create algorithmic knitting patterns (shout out to the participants for not running away after the crash course knitting), and I made a terrible plotter out of sticks and motors controlled by Strudel. I was delighted at the creative uses that our participants came up with for the tools we taught them.

Thanks to iMAL for the invitation, to Alex for being a brilliant co-teacher, and to everyone who attended for their sustained attention and creativity!

#livecoding #Brussels #strudel #cnytt

Inspired by @hellocatfood I am making glitch art with scripting

Stickers trading anyone???

I often hear people saying thing along the lines of "AI is just a tool, it's the use that you make of it that is good or bad".

Setting aside the fact that some negative externalities remain even for "good uses" (not that it's not important, but I'm pretty solid on that topic), the notion that genAI can be called a tool doesn't sit well with me; something about it being to generalist, too versatile and unpredictable, but I don't have the intellectual bagage to properly spell this out...

Can anyone point me to work exploring this notion? ("generalist gen AI is not a tool, it belongs to another category"). Or a refutation of that, but rigorously developed please

Many thanks!

cnytt / python library for procedural knitting

https://codeberg.org/aherrou/cnytt

#knitting #cnytt #procedural #python

Hint: https://agathe.herrou.fr/slides-hlci/

What is she doing???

Major autism study uncovers biologically distinct subtypes, paving the way for precision diagnosis and care
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/07/09/major-autism-study-uncovers-biologically-distinct-subtypes-paving-way-precision
#autism

I just learned that the first computerized file gathering information on French citizens included people born as early as 1891... A bit vertiginous if you ask me

Which brings me to!

Now that I am properly settled in Belgium and I have some free time, I'd really love to get to play more and teach more live coding!
So, if you would like to book me to play at your algorave/birthday party/event of your choice, or to give a livecoding workshop at your local community space, now is your chance! Get in touch and let's see what we can do.

I can easily move around Europe, but not so much further, and I can give workshops in French, English and Dutch!

In 2026, I'd like to explore live coding beyond the defaults palettes of languages, that means
- contributing new functions to tidalcycles
- seriously studying supercollider and the esoteric stuff you can do with it
- going further with my work on generative knitting
- trying other sorts of hybridizations that I have in mind

Are we back?

Preparing for the next algorave

Hot take but I like autonomous generative systems when they produce whacky stuff that stretch your conception of what's possible

OK this is art a bit
https://clocks.brianmoore.com/