The Art of Code
summary
Shows concrete, surprising artifacts: builds a NAND gate and a self‑running instance of Conway's Game of Life to prove simple rules make a computer; plots the Mandelbrot set using IBM-era iteration to reveal infinite detail; demos live music coded with Sonic Pi (parallel-by-default loops and samples that actually play); surveys IOCCC one‑kilobyte Flappy Bird and NanoChess engines, a 128‑language polyglot quine, and a joking yet real Rockstar language with a JavaScript interpreter that gets 2,000 GitHub stars in 24 hours.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction to the talk
- 1:12Why code thrills us
- 3:43Conway's Game of Life explained
- 7:14From Game of Life to computers
- 9:26Useless but beautiful code
- 10:08Chaos theory and fractals
- 16:32Mandelbrot set discovery
- 21:30Computers in art and film
- 23:41Machine learning and deep dreams
- 26:59Software as art
- 27:43Obfuscated C code contest
- 31:05Quines and self-replicating code
- 38:54Esoteric programming languages
- 44:34Code as live performance
- 50:03Inventing Rockstar language
- 57:14Rockstar interpreter demo
- 58:38FizzBuzz in Rockstar performance
- 1:03:57Closing remarks
