Calendar
At Creative Coding Utrecht we organise a range of monthly events that cater to different interests, age groups and skill level. We aim to help you develop your connection with all things coding, no matter how foreign the subject might seem to you.
Have no idea what Creative Coding means? Have a background in programming but you wouldn’t know where to start making your own, creative stuff? Or do you simply want to enhance your pre-existing skills and create even more flashy visuals, animations and more?
Filter our events by topic and accessibility level, there is something for everyone. To look up any of our past events, check out the archive.
Multispecies Movie Night
TicketsJoin us for an evening that brings together experiments with other ways of listening and seeing the world. We will listen, watch a film and exchange question and ideas while sipping a drink.
How do other species perceive the world? What if we took the perspective of a bird, a mushroom or a tree? How would that change our relationship with the land and our technologies?
Nahun Saldaña and Werner de Valk prompt us to let go of our habitual point of view, leading us to explore what happens when we start to feel the hidden interdependencies that bound us up in relationships with other beings. Together we delve into the forms of empathy and care that emerge once we look, listen and tell stories otherwise.
Event program:
- Listen to the world like a butterfly: a live listening session by Nahun Saldaña
Butterflies possess organs capable of perceiving specific frequencies to detect the flapping of wings and even the vocalizations of birds. In this sound session, Nahun Saldaña invites us to shift our perspective and delve into listening through the sensitivity of a butterfly.
The project stems from experimentation with field recordings made in the peri-urban areas of Utrecht during his recent residency at CCU. It is an immersive experience designed to challenge our perception and propel us toward genuine interspecies acoustic empathy.
- Polyphony: pre-screening of the poetic documentary by Werner de Valk
The conceptual separation between nature on the one hand and humans on the other has destructive consequences. We know ‘nature documentaries’ as a genre that confirms this old paradigm. But what happens if we let go of this separation in a nature documentary? What if human structures are not left out of the picture, but are part of it? And what do we see when a nature film is not about a coral reef or rainforest, but about a garden and a building in its center?
Pop corns are included!
- Moderated after talk: in conversation with Werner and Nahun
After the film, we will dive deeper into the works of the two artists. Together we’ll speculate about what happens when we adopt a different perspective, be the one of a butterfly or an entire ecosystem.