Weaving Codes/Coding Weaves: Penelopean mêtis and the weaver-coder's kairos
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 62 - 699063
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- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/14759756.2017.1298233
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- Textile
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- First page
- 124
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 1475-9756
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Artistic Research Centre
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- Additional information
- Expanding Cocker’s conceptualisation of live coding as a ‘kairotic practice’ (2014), this article investigates the performed ‘thinking-in-action’ of live coding through its (technical, conceptual, metaphorical) proximity to ancient weaving. It addresses the human qualities of attention, cognitive agility and tactical intelligence activated within weaving and coding with reference to the Ancient Greek concepts of kairos (opportune timing) and mêtis (cunning intelligence).
The article draws on extensive fieldwork undertaken as invited critical interlocutor in the AHRC Digital Transformations projects Live Notation: Transforming Matters of Performance (2013) and Weaving Codes/Coding Weaves (2014 — 2016), which included Cocker’s contribution to a series of international residencies / workshops (e.g. at the Centre for Textiles Research, Copenhagen, 2015; Centre for Participatory IT, Aarhus, 2015; Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke, Munich, 2015; Institute for Music and Media, Dusseldorf, 2016).
The article’s critical concepts were developed (and awareness of wider contexts consolidated) through international conference presentation (e.g. Threads and Codes Symposium, Goldsmiths, 2015; International Conference on Live Coding [ICLC], University of Leeds, 2015; ICLC, University of Hamilton, Canada, 2016) and publication (e.g. ‘Live Notation: Reflections on a Kairotic Practice’, Performance Research Journal, Vol.18, No.5 ‘On Writing and Digital Media’, 2014; ‘Performing thinking in action: the meletē of live coding’, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 12:2, 2016).
The specific theoretical-philosophical focus of Cocker’s research on live coding has since resulted in invitations to write/publish further academic articles (e.g. in Journal of Digital Creativity, Special Issue on Improvisational Creativity, 29:1, 2018); to present key-note conference papers (International Conference on Live Coding, University of Limerick, 2020), and to co-author the first book-length academic publication within the field of live coding (Live Coding — a User's Manual, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2021) in collaboration with Professor Alan Blackwell, Professor Geoff Cox, Dr Alex McLean, Dr Thor Magnusson.
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