Professor Shannon Mattern (she/her) discusses her new book A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences (Princeton University Press) with Ever Bussey (they/them), Jasmine McNealy (she/her), Trevor Owens (he/him), & Everest Pipkin (they/them).

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“A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers”

Why do we want our computers to improvise? 
The loosely constituted field of interactive music has drawn upon AI and practices of free improvisation in creating a new kind of music-making that includes machine subjectivities as central actors. These "creative machines" have been designed to stake out musical territory, assess and respond to conditions, and assert identities and positions--all aspects of improvisative interaction, both within and beyond the domain of music. This talk will open up a set of question-spaces regarding the nature and impact of these transformations, as well as addressing the author’s own experiences in designing and performing with creative machines.

Processing Community Day NYC is an independent all volunteer-organized event in cooperation with the Processing Foundation and hundreds of other locally-organized nodes around the world. Processing Community Day NYC 2020 is supported by the Department of Education Computer Science for All (CS4All). The New School is provided hosting support, with additional funding from Code + Liberal Arts at Eugene Lang.

See the final projects from Digital Creative Writing at Eugene Lang taught by Todd Anderson

Code Kitchen is a public speaker series hosted by Parsons AMT Design + Technology.

Code Kitchen is a public speaker series hosted by Parsons AMT Design + Technology.

Code Kitchen is a public speaker series hosted by Parsons AMT Design + Technology.