We’re excited that the speaker for January’s PLATFORM Artist Network event will be Alex McLean – Sheffield-based artist, creative technologist and researcher – whose talk is entitled "Live Coding and Algorithmic Patterns".

We’re excited that the speaker for January’s PLATFORM Artist Network event will be Alex McLean – Sheffield-based artist, creative technologist and researcher – whose talk is entitled "Live Coding and Algorithmic Patterns".

Alex is active across the digital arts and creative coding, including co-founding the Algorave algorithmic dance music movement, and creating the TidalCycles live coding environment, and co-creating the Strudel port of TidalCycles to the web.

As researcher he works as part of the non-profit studio Then Try This, funded by a UKRI Future Leader Fellowship to explore Algorithmic Patterns – exploring heritage algorithms in craft and performing arts, to inform the development of new creative technology.

Find out more about Alex's work at::

https://slab.org/

https://thentrythis.org/

https://algorithmicpattern.org/

Event schedule:

6.30pm – doors open

6.45pm – talk from Alex McLean

7.45pm – networking

9pm – end

This is a public event, open to all. Tickets are £2.

PLATFORM is a new programme for filmmakers and digital visual artists in Leicester. Find out more here.

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