Embodied Code Ritual Resistance
In this lecture, Alida Sun will explore play as research methodology, data as material for somatic inquiry, and reclaiming computational heritage from tech bro oligarchs trying to steal our past and future.
How can critical code and free open source software community empower artistic imagination while resisting Big Tech's complicity in war and imperialism? How do we sustain creative practices in the age of algorithms beyond planned obsolescence and proprietary subscriptions?
This lecture offers insights from over 2,500 consecutive days of hand-coded art by Alida Sun, who maintains an international career using intentionally secondhand salvaged tech well over a decade old. We'll explore play as research methodology, data as material for somatic inquiry, and reclaiming computational heritage from tech bro oligarchs trying to steal our past and future.
Alida Sun is an artist and technologist based in Berlin and New York. Her practice integrates presence, resistance, and adaptation in the age of algorithms. Every day for over 2,000 days and counting she has hand coded a new generative artwork spanning installation, sound, textiles, architecture, choreography, and light.
Her works have been exhibited in museums and galleries including UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, bitforms, Unit London, as well as media art festivals around the world.
Lecture in the context of a PEEK Project V994 by Stefanie Wuschitz, funded by the FWF.