We're live! An article with my collaborator Kit on the design of L5 creative coding library responding to permacomputing principles. This will be presented online as part of Computing within Limits next week.

Designing L5: A Permacomputing Approach to Creative Coding

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18481

Creative coding libraries provide high-level tools that make computational and algorithmic art accessible to artists and learners. Processing/p5 is one such family of libraries, known for its beginner-friendly approach and wide reach across artistic and technical communities. L5 is a new member of this family, implemented in Lua using the LOVE framework. It applies permacomputing principles, a movement addressing sustainability in computing inspired by permaculture, bringing these values to a community of practice not historically centered on them. This paper explores L5's design decisions and tensions between sustainability and usability through five case studies: 1. balancing perceived simplicity versus exposing the seams, 2. designing for lower resource consumption, 3. ensuring long-term stability, 4. constraining functionality, and 5. designing documentation for resource-constrained access. Rather than optimizing for a single metric, sustainable creative tools require navigating competing values transparently.

#permacomputing #L5 #creativecoding

This Friday 19 June 19.30 with alfonso borragen: InVitro: Body Stone Emissions as part of the wonderful seismic_mother more-than-exhibition in Peckham Rye. Details below.

InVitro: Body Stone Emissions is a series of performances, and their residues, making evident the endo-geologic body and its temporal infrastructural or technological accretions.

InVitro: Body Stone Emissions manifests two parallel and separated forms of interior observation. In the first instance, participants are invited to swallow a radio emitter capsule, which will transmit from the inside, a sonification of exogenous bodies that are petrified inside the human body; emerging within their wormy flesh, travelling through their digestive system and leaving their bodies. This radio insider dealing, is paralleled by live video and sonic transformations of the x-ray scanning of body stones, accretions within the body of anthropic geologies, conducted at the laboratory using a Nikon XTH 225 computed tomography system.

InVitro: Body Stone Emissions is devised and produced by alfonso borragan and Martin Howse

Opening Times:
19th June - Private View 6.00 - 9.00 pm

20th June - 11.00 – 7.00 (Performances and Talks from 3.00)
21st June - 11.00 – 5.00
Address: The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye Station, Station Way, London SE15 4RX

Most recent #Diagram of Dispossession. That’s a 3D model of the Elida copper deposit in west-central Peru, drawn on top of a ‘Daily Borer Return’ form as used in South African mines in the 1940s.

Tables, spreadsheets, censuses, block models, colonialism is categorising, taxonomising, tabulating all the way down.

A very special winter day out on Kapiti, a sanctuary island. I spend as much time as I can in the rainforests on the mainland, but this place-world just 5km off shore is a very different biological reality. The canopy was thriving with song, a whole new scale.

The fruit of over a century of dedication removing destructive invasive species like goats, deer, stoats, rats, cats & possums, introduced by European settlers. The biome heals & finds itself again.

(Some music for you)

#conservation