Live-coding Performances

The nature of livecoding is that it is performed (improvised) in-the-moment; the gig (performance) is the output (that's why it's called livecoding), and any artefact (e.g. a video recording) is useful documentation, but only a trace of the work itself.

Still, documentation is an important part of one's artistic practice, so here's a bunch of photos and videos from my gigs. Some of them are nice & slick-looking, some of them are super-grungy videos shot on smartphones in the crowd. Although I'm working hard to track down any old videos, some of these gigs are lost to time. I like to assume that they were the best ones ;)

Taken together, these 27 performances span 2008–2025: nearly two decades of live-coding practice, gathered here as a single body of work. Each one is increasingly being given its own DataCite DOI so it can be cited as a research output in its own right.

There's also a more formal research statement for the body of work, with notes on a handful of the anchor gigs, if that's your sort of thing.