Curious Code
Alida Sun
How can code empower you and your imagination while resisting Big Tech’s complicity in war crimes and apartheid?
How do you start and maintain a sustainable creative technology practice free from increasingly expensive gear or endless proprietary subscriptions?
Accessible answers and insights will be shared from over 2,331 consecutive days of hand coded art by Alida Sun, who maintains a full time international art career using a secondhand computer well over a decade old.
Everything from practical frameworks of how to break into & navigate the art world when you’re born far from privilege, to Free Open Source Software as a key to liberation from digital landlords and imperialist spy bloatware, to the strange joyful ways in which curiosity and true community will take you further than ambition.
This talk will also explore play as the highest form of research, data as somatic healing ritual, and reclaiming computational heritage from tech bro oligarchs trying to steal our past and future.
About Alida Sun
Alida Sun is an artist and technologist whose practice integrates presence, resistance, and adaptation in the age of algorithms. Every day for over 2,000 days and counting she has coded a new artwork spanning installation, music, architecture, choreography, drawing, and light. Her work has been exhibited at bitforms, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraftwerk Berlin, Art Basel, Unit London, and media art festivals around the world.
