Creative Coding Barcelona

This beginner-friendly workshop introduces Strudel as a browser-based live coding environment for making musical patterns with code. Using the metaphor of kneading dough, participants will learn how small musical ideas can be shaped, stretched, folded, layered, and transformed over time. We will move through the basics of Strudel’s pattern language, explore rhythm and repetition, experiment with live transformations, and learn how to bring sounds into Strudel using built-in samples and imported audio. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to create basic Strudel patterns, understand how cycles and mini-notation work, transform patterns through repetition and variation, use built-in sample banks, import or access external sounds, and perform a short evolving live-coded musical sketch. Participants should bring a laptop and headphones. No installation is required.

Anna Carreras and Sól Ey present practices based in systems that perform in real time, reclaiming presence and perception to be experienced. Art manifests as events that will never repeat; code becomes a living practice, and each gesture, whether algorithmic or embodied, becomes part of an evolving system in constant transformation. Anna Carreras creates through systems operating within the screen, leaving traces of their behaviour as images. Sóley works through the body, embodying systems that perceive and respond to space and movement, leaving those traces through sound. Across both practices, performance becomes a coded set of instructions, signals, and relations that happen live.

In this talk, we will explain what motivates us to think about, experiment with, play with or hack the various technologies we use as an artistic collective. We will share some projects in which concepts such as small data, embodiment, and collective practice can serve as critical tools in engaging with alternative and autonomous forms of technologically driven artistic production.

This talk will examine her approach towards audiovisual performances, custom gestural interfaces, multidisciplinarity and horizontal collaborations. Technology will be discussed both in terms of its material presentation in performance – hardware and software – but also as a recurrent thematic motif in her practice: digital narcissism, critical AI, virtual and physical avatars, tech as prosthetic.

In this talk, Tatiana Halbach and Søren Christensen (Desilence) share the conceptual and visual process behind Paramnèsic, a project inspired by paramnesia, where memories become distorted and the boundaries between what is lived and what is imagined begin to fade. Through constantly transforming images—mutating landscapes, forms that dissolve and recombine—they explore how the subconscious edits and reinvents experiences until they become alternative realities. The session will delve into the creative process behind the series, from the collection of dreams to the fusion of painting, movement, and memory that defines the exhibition.

ferestecs presents a weekend in nature with Andy Quitmeyer (Dinalab). A small group of artists, creators, engineers and curious explorers will come together to collectively hack technology and nature. For a few days, we’ll live, code, walk and work together in a natural environment, setting up a temporary outdoor lab.

Dr. Andrew Quitmeyer makes tools for interacting with nature. He runs a jungle makerspace to make tools for field biologists in Panama. Everything he makes he shares openly, and he founded an international conference called, The Digital Naturalism Conference, where creative people explore interesting natural environments and share projects they make. In general, he thinks people should play outside more and that our technology needs to come outside to play too.

Lecture by Mario Santamaría on his artistic processes and practice. For years, his work has focused on embodying protocols and processes of information distribution, performing actions such as physically travelling to his website by repeating the path of data; leaving an avatar falling for eternity in the sky of a Metaverse; going for drinks around the city as a Google algorithm; or creating a tour operator based on the infrastructure of the Internet.

Join Operator (Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti) for an in depth and process-focused lecture about their generative choreography method, contextualized within their history integrating advanced technologies in their experiential practice.

A session to share creative approaches and ways of giving materiality to light and sound. Moving between installation, performance, sculpture, and scenography, the talk will present technical, material, and formal solutions for generating immersive experiences where one can listen with all the senses.

Corazón de Robota brings a retro-technological and techno-manual perspective to the creation of low-cost sound artifacts built with low-tech materials, electronic waste, chocolate boxes, and recycled components. Her setup consists entirely of handmade oscillators, sequencers, drum machines, filters, and distortions that intentionally incorporate electronic errors and aberrations. The sounds produced during the performance form a chaotic organization of textures, feedback, and random patterns that evolve over time, leading the audience into a sonic trance and a journey through the rhythmic dimensions of noise. During the talk, Corazón de Robota will share insights into her sound project, presenting her DIY instruments, connections, and creative process.

An unusual journey of coding, happy mistakes, bad life decisions, and planned errors, with an uncensored lack of limitations.

On June 13, 2025, Creative Coding Barcelona took over Sónar+D with a session titled "Creative Coding in Practice: Four Perspectives on Generative Art", dedicated to creative coders and those who find beauty between lines of code and within algorithms. The session featured four artist presentations that delved into personal practice, creative processes, and the questions that drive their work, and what they hope to inspire in others.

Taller Estampa reviews some of the projects they have carried out in recent years, characterized by their approach to emerging artificial intelligence technologies and deep learning neural networks from a creative yet also critical perspective. In projects such as The Bad Student. Critical Pedagogy for Artificial Intelligences, Martian Species, The Infinite Conference, Q&A Session, or Cartography of Generative AI, the collective has worked with tools such as computer vision, image generation, and text generation, while also investigating the contexts that have enabled the development of these technologies and the consequences of their growth.

Marta Verde reveals the role of error, glitches, and randomness in her work as part of the creative process

A talk about 5 projects produced by Melt Studio that explores the relationship between the world of audiovisual, marketing, advertising and pixels, bytes and emotions.

A talk exploring generative AI, real-time interaction, and how creative coding reshapes our relationship with space, matter, and the pressing themes of our time.

Discover Anna Lucia's art practice at the intersection of code and craft and her search for touch in digital art.