Programming as a Performance

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Claim: treating programming as a staged interaction reveals what machines actually do when humans instruct them. Specific tools and outcomes include Sonic Pi (C++ app with a Ruby server) driving audio and an OpenGL shader for visuals, Overtone + SuperCollider, Emacs experiments, hacked iMac circuitry, and choreographic projections. Concrete numbers and events: about 70 years since Zeus, 20‑person Montreal cybernetic orchestra, a 40‑person live coding session, kids using Raspberry Pi. Demos run in clubs and classrooms, mostly work but sometimes crash. live coding Raspberry Pi

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