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Collaboration and learning through live coding (Dagstuhl Seminar 13382)

Authors: Alan Blackwell, Alex McLean, James Noble, and Julian Rohrhuber

Published in: Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 3, Issue 9 (2014)


Abstract
This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 13382 "Collaboration and learning through live coding". Live coding is improvised interactive programming, typically to create electronic music and other digital media, done live with an audience. Our seminar was motivated by the phenomenon and experience of live coding. Our conviction was that those represent an important and broad, but seldom articulated, set of opportunities for computer science and the arts and humanities. The seminar participants included a broad range of scholars, researchers, and practitioners spanning fields from music theory to software engineering. We held live coding performances, and facilitated discussions on three main perspectives, the humanities, computing education, and software engineering. The main outcome of our seminar was better understanding of the potential of live coding for informing cross-disciplinary scholarship and practice, connecting the arts, cultural studies, and computing.

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Alan Blackwell, Alex McLean, James Noble, and Julian Rohrhuber. Collaboration and learning through live coding (Dagstuhl Seminar 13382). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 3, Issue 9, pp. 130-168, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2014)


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@Article{blackwell_et_al:DagRep.3.9.130,
  author =	{Blackwell, Alan and McLean, Alex and Noble, James and Rohrhuber, Julian},
  title =	{{Collaboration and learning through live coding (Dagstuhl Seminar 13382)}},
  pages =	{130--168},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Reports},
  ISSN =	{2192-5283},
  year =	{2014},
  volume =	{3},
  number =	{9},
  editor =	{Blackwell, Alan and McLean, Alex and Noble, James and Rohrhuber, Julian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.3.9.130},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-44205},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagRep.3.9.130},
  annote =	{Keywords: Live coding, Collaboration, Learning, Improvised interactive programming, Computer music, Algorithmic composition, TOPLAP}
}
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Embodied creativity

Authors: Alex McLean

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 9291, Computational Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2009)


Abstract
By taking the view of embodied cognition summarised here, we may define embodied creative search, where sensory-motor faculties are used to navigate a geometric space, in direct metaphor to a search through a physical space. In this view, creative computation requires concepts to be represented in a manner at least sympathetic with the way humans perceive, act and introspect.

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Alex McLean. Embodied creativity. In Computational Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 9291, pp. 1-2, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2009)


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@InProceedings{mclean:DagSemProc.09291.15,
  author =	{McLean, Alex},
  title =	{{Embodied creativity}},
  booktitle =	{Computational Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Approach},
  pages =	{1--2},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2009},
  volume =	{9291},
  editor =	{Margaret Boden and Mark D'Inverno and Jon McCormack},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.09291.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-22178},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.09291.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Creativity, embodied cognition, conceptual space}
}
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