Opening keynotes

For many who have a bad relationship with math, it is often because the subject can come across as static and rote. Those who have been fortunate enough to see what the subject truly is know that it is rife with creativity, choices, and regular shifts in perspective that fundamentally reshape how you view problems. Where there is choice, there is design, and this talk will explore various design challenges and principles that go into presenting and discovering math.

This talk explores human computer interaction through the design of programmable creative tools. Drawing on our work maintaining Strudel, a live-coded music system, we’ll examine how having absolute freedom over text interfaces enables more intimate and natural interactions. With a background in instrument making, we frame software as an interactive artifact meant to be tuned and learned through use engaging with a design space that hasn’t fully crystallized yet, where shaping your own environment becomes a playground for creativity.