Live Coding A User's Manual

• Main Author: Blackwell, Alan F. (auth)
• Other Authors: Cocker, Emma (auth), Cox, Geoff (auth), McLean, Alex (auth), Magnusson, Thor (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: Software Studies
• Subjects: Advertising & society; Ethical & social aspects of IT; Electronic, holographic & video art; Live Coding; Computer Music; Software Studies; Computational Culture; Media Arts; Contemporary Arts and Sciences; Performance Studies; Critical Computing; Human-Computer Interaction; Psychology of Programming
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The first comprehensive introduction to the origins, aspirations, and evolution of live coding. Performative, improvised, on the fly: live coding is about how people interact with the world and each other via code. In the last few decades, live coding has emerged as a dynamic creative practice, gain...