Creative Coding Fest
CC Fest is a free and friendly event for anyone curious about creative code! Will you join us?
On Saturday, March 15, 2025, from 9 am to 1 pm PST (+8 UTC) join us on Zoom for a virtual creative coding fest. We’ll make interactive and engaging digital art, animation, and games, work with AI or hardware, and explore other options in various workshops. Hear from our keynote speakers, Saskia Freeke, Olivia Jack, Kawandeep Virdee, on important and timely topics related to creative coding!
We welcome:
Students, artists, hobbyists, creatives, and tinkerers who are curious to learn
Educators and community organizers who are looking for inspiration
Everyone who would like to learn more about creative code and our community
Saber Khan is organizing the event. If you have any questions, you can email mrkhanatndv@gmail.com.
You can donate as you RSVP below. Funds will be used to cover the cost of the event, Zoom license and paying keynotes, and rest will be shared with presenters.
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Schedule (all times PST +8 UTC)
9:00 am welcome
9:15 am opening keynote
9:45 am first round of workshops
10:45 am middle keynote
11:15 am second round of workshops
12:15 pm closing keynote
1:00 pm goodbye
Keynotes
Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Saskia, is an artist, creative coder, and designer exploring structure, geometry, and playfulness. Since 2015, they have maintained a daily generative art project, experimenting with patterns and animations. Their work spans digital and physical media, using digital fabrication to create tangible pieces. Passionate about interactive design, they research the relationship between humans and machines, creating playful installations. A former lecturer at Goldsmiths and the University of the Arts Utrecht, they now work as a freelance designer, organizing events, leading workshops, and giving talks on creative coding, interaction design, and digital fabrication.
Olivia is a Berlin-based programmer and artist working with open-source software, cartography, live coding, and experimental interfaces. She created Hydra, a browser-based platform for live-coding visuals, enabling users to reimagine pixels, glitch screens, and collaborate online. With a background in computer engineering, she discovered live coding in Bogotá, reshaping her approach to software development. Her research explores algorithmic uncertainty, chaos, and peer-to-peer networking. Recent projects include *Nodos: Cuerpos en Expansión* in Bogotá and *Laboratory of Possibilities* at the Oakland Museum of California. Featured on the *Art && Code* Podcast, she continues expanding creative coding’s possibilities.
Kawandeep is a creative technologist, artist, and author of *Feeling Great About My Butt*. Their work spans interactive web experiments, public art, and wall drawings, alongside organizing events that inspire creativity—ranging from art and tech salons to workshops and spaces for reflection. Formerly a data scientist at the New England Complex Systems Institute, they later led product and strategy at Embedly before its acquisition by Medium. Currently, they prototype AI-driven experiences at Google Labs via Magnit. Their work has been exhibited at SFMOMA, Transmediale, and MIT Media Lab and featured in *The Atlantic*, *The New York Times*, and *Vice*.
Workshops (1 Hour)
more details coming soon
Teachable Hydra by Naoto Hieda & Flor de Fuego
In this workshop we will go through different examples on how to use Hydra + ml5js and Teachable Machine to control Hydra functions with the camera (Your body and objects) for generating visuals on the browser.
Intermediate
Naoto Hieda (they/them) is a researcher and an artist from Japan based in Estonia enrolled in the PhD programme at the School of Digital Technologies Tallinn University. In their artistic work, they question the productive qualities of coding and speculate on new forms, post-coding through neuroqueerness, decolonization and live coding. Mastadon
Flor de Fuego (she/her) is a digital-craft artist who primarily works with programming and live coding to create performative experiences. She has participated in several international festivals across Europe and the Americas, both individually and in collaboration with other artists. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the National University of La Plata, Argentina. Flor is actively involved in the live coding community. She is also an active community collaborator for Hydra, a live coding browser-based software developed by Olivia Jack. Mastadon
Code Less, Make More with Web Spinner by Caleb Foss
Web Spinner is beginner-friendly JavaScript library designed specifically for creating web content. Make visualizations, animations, user interfaces, and more with less code than other tools! The project is currently in development, and this session will demonstrate its features and invite feedback.
Beginner
Caleb Foss (they/them) is an artist and educator who develops mess-making systems using media technologies. They make software, games, videos, digitally-fabricated objects, and multimedia performances. Foss' methods draw from amusement parks and magic tricks, and their work seeks opportunities for amorphousness in the future of human media interactions. Their work has been showcased in film festivals including Chicago Underground, Imagine Science (Brooklyn), and FRACTO (Berlin) as well as Hand Eye Society's WordPlay Festival for writing in games (Toronto) and BitBash at the Chicago Humanities Festival. They are an Assistant Professor of Web Development, Design, and Social Media at Joliet Junior College.
Which Code Witch : Live Spells in Creative Coding 🐈⬛🔮 by M DeNardo
If presented in a creative and approachable way, software engineering concepts can be easily understood by children. MDN presents three lessons, sharing how to get kids excited about learning concepts in software engineering ... using Scratch, Twine, Python Turtle, and Teachable Machine …
Intermediate
M DeNardo (MDN) (they/them/we) is Lead Educator of the After3 Coding Club (b. 2014) , at NEST+m;
Which Code Witch is their online program; teaching software engineering,
through the lens of creative coding 🐈⬛🔮