Live Coding + Hydra + CERN

30.09-02.10.2020

By: Álvaro O'Byrne, Rafael Puyana y Carlos Sandoval

Colisión

This exercise-workshop is a space where the principles of visual live coding are approached as a practice of improvisation and creation of moving images generated with code in real time. We articulate this practice and the learning of the fundamentals of the workshop with data, information and images originated in the CERN experiments and in the results derived from the working sessions facilitated by physicist Carlos Sandoval.

Hydra is a web-app focused on visual live coding in a simple and flexible way using a friendly syntax. In this workshop we take advantage of the web nature of Hydra to receive/read data from CERN experiments and play with that information creating moving images that respond to them.

This workshop has been created by Rafael Puyana and Álvaro O'Byrne. Both work with the TopLap Bogotá creation nodes.

MASTERCLASS ATLAS

Carlos Sandoval

The first session of the workshop is an "ATLAS Masterclass". This activity starts with an introductory talk about the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, followed by an activity to identify particles in data from the experiment through the visualization of events in this detector.

Álvaro O'Byrne ( vj numb3r )

Studied Physics at the National University of Colombia. Interactive graphics programmer. Live coder of visuals using WebGL and JavaScript. Arduino maker and audio synthesizer luthier. He has special interest in the synchronization of sound and music with computerized and analog image, dance, puppets, circus, lighting and drawing machines, mobile sculptures, automatons, and other instruments.

Winner and co-creator for the 2019 Creation Labs-Cinemateca de Bogotá Creation Grant: Live Coding & Hardware Hacking.

https://alvarobyrne.github.io/

Rafael Puyana

Media artist, designer, learning facilitator and live-coder. His interests navigate the exploration of the space in which art, critical design and technology dialogue, collide and merge. His work explores the exchanges between technology, the internet-being, the urban condition and the practices of light. He is part of the collective VozTerra.com and works with the TopLap Bogotá creation nodes, which explore live performance through code, soundscapes and the creation of real-time and conversational images. He has taught design and media arts in Colombia and Canada and manages learning spaces in the practice of live coding. B.A - Graphic Design, Universidad Nacional de Colombia - 1997 M.F.A - Media Arts - Emily Carr University, Canada - 2013

www.rafaelpuyana.com

Carlos Sandoval

Professor at the physics department of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and since 2010 he has been working on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC.