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Peckham Digital is a non-profit creative computing festival dedicated to making digital art and creative computing more inclusive, accessible, and
community-driven. We create opportunities for people to engage with creative technology by supporting emerging artists, nurturing grassroots digital art communities, and encouraging a “hands-dirty” experimental approach to
making.

This beginner-friendly workshop introduces modular synthesis as a way of making small generative sound systems.

Jeremy Osztreicher

Intro to Generative Modular Synthesis with Noodlerack

Artists' Party - Festival Opening

Drawing from the spirit and structure of web craft and small tech, this BYOW (Bring Your Own Website) meet-up aims to bring together artists, researchers and everyday users around the topic of web craft and small poetic web practices. This meet-up attempts to create a space for those working across small and craft web practices to connect, share practices, and extend the network offline. Participants will have a maximum of 10 minutes to present their web project and there will be space to discuss and connect after everyone has shown. 

Kendal Beynon

BYOW (Bring Your Own Website) Meetup

Situate and deconstruct the laptop as a tool for collective performance. 

Kat Macdonald

Noisy Spaces: Embodiment, Technology and Public Space

Conscript Theatre

Untitled (Robot Story)

Design your custom tiles using an interactive p5.js sketch, which are then cut from coloured vinyl. Each participants receives one tile to take home and one to add to our growing collaborative installation on the wall or window.

This workshop is part of Processing Community Day, we are prioritising young people aged between 18 and 25 years old who are not in employment and education.

Processing Community Day Workshop: Digital Tile Design and Fabrication

In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to design a custom algorithmically designed head covering allowing them to become undetectable in heavily surveilled society.

Fran Hayes

SLIMECITY: Grow your own algorithmic slime mold anti-surveillance mask using Scaniverse and Blender

On games that don’t quite want to be games. Rules that refuse to function. Mechanics borrowed and then broken. Moving through Jade’s practice at the cusp of play, art, and film, this talk explores the friction of working with a medium so often organised around progression, reward, and player satisfaction.

“Counterfeit games” is a tentative name for works that sit on a spectrum of playable experiences, using the language of games while refusing to play by their rules. Through small experiments and encounters with the feeling of not quite belonging, this talk traces a creative practice emerging from that refusal.

Jade Lin

Counterfeit Games: Anti-Game Approaches to Playable Experiences

Join Considerate Digital to make an interactive project in Processing, discover how much energy it takes to run.

Find out how low-power, recycled hardware can make creative computing more sustainable.

In this hands-on workshop you will create a Processing project and develop it into an interactive work using a webcam. Together we will explore how hardware choices affect the climate impact of creative coding projects. We will also investigate how creative code can be run on low-power, recycled hardware, instead of new power-hungry devices.

Workshop Requirements: A laptop with Processing installed.

This workshop is part of Processing Community Day, we are prioritising young people aged between 18 and 25 years old who are not in employment and education.

Processing Community Day Workshop: Planet-friendly Processing

Time-based and digital artworks exist beyond being fixed objects, existing as behaviours dependent on technological systems that evolve over time. Conservation of digital artworks and networked infrastructures are deeply tied to specific technological environments, making them especially vulnerable to obsolescence as software and hardware change. 'Hyperviolet' is an ongoing study in digital world-building and physical handmade craft that ensues from long and gruelling pilgrimages in the real world. This talk will review the history of conservation of collections of time based contemporary new media and introduce the theory behind 'collection as pilgrimage' – an art practice infusing craft material and digital worldbuilding by incorporating digital archiving and preservation methods like 3D scanning artifacts on lengthy walks, often referred to as 'derivés'. 

Alexa Ann Bonomo

Methods in Conserving Time-Based Contemporary New Media and Collection as Pilgrimage

Book a 30-minute one-to-one with Joel Gethin Lewis who works at the intersection of art, technology, and culture. This is a chance to ask questions, get feedback on your projects, and gain insight into career pathways in creative computing. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to expand your practice, these informal conversations are designed to support your development and connect you with people shaping the field.

Joel Gethin Lewis

Office Hours with Joel Gethin Lewis!

A hands-on workshop introducing SPOKE, a capacitive-touch MIDI controller, paired with p5.js/Processing. Participants build live, generative visuals in real time — turning touches into numbers, colour, shape, and 3D geometry as they go.

Workshop Requirements: A laptop with Processing (https://processing.org/download) installed. A free SpokeBoard will be provided to each participant.

Processing Community Day Workshop: SPOKE - Physical interaction with Processing

Picodevil is a browser-based tool for livecoding visuals. v invented it! It allows you to take video clips, chop them up, apply effects to them and tile them. You do this by writing (simple) code, viewing the results, then editing it a bit. It is fun to make visuals in this improvised way.
In this workshop, v will teach you how to use Picodevil. Not the whole thing, but enough to have fun with it and for you to continue exploring it.

Picodevil is open source (https://github.com/v21/picodevil) - you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License.

Workshop requirements: Laptop with a browser

v buckenham

Intro to Picodevil

Designing Augmented Reality for Live Performance (with Snapchat Spectacles). In this talk, Lien will discuss projects she worked on that use lightweight heads-up displays as a tool for live music performance. Drawing from concrete examples—including her role as a supporting musician and developer behind Imogen Heap’s improvisation performance for Snapchat SPECS launch in September 2026—she will present design and technical considerations when working with this new class of augmented reality hardware. She will also discuss the creative potential that augmented reality brings to music as these lightweight devices become more accessible to artists and the public.

Lien Tran

Designing Augmented Reality for Live Performance (with Snapchat Spectacles)

In this hands-on workshop, we will build portable computers from a small computer board, screen, keyboard, power source, and custom enclosure. Working in small teams, we will explore how these devices might be shaped around different places, needs and ways of making, particularly in a time of climate disruption, increasing surveillance and dependence on large digital platforms. Optional additions can introduce local communication, environmental sensing, and different ways of interacting with the computer. Drawing on DIY cyberdecks, art and experimental electronics, the workshop explores computing as something we can understand, adapt and shape collectively.

Workshop requirements: No previous electronics or computing experience is required.


This workshop is part of Processing Community Day, we are prioritising young people aged between 18 and 25 years old who are not in employment and education.

Processing Community Day Workshop: Small computers, local worlds

A small number of powerful companies now control how most people interact with AI. Their tools are convenient, but not neutral - they are designed to keep you dependent, train on your data, make decisions about what intelligence looks like on your behalf, and consume extraordinary amounts of energy to run infrastructure that primarily serves their own growth.

This workshop is about engaging with this differently. We begin by looking at what a bot can actually be, from simple rule-based systems to generative text to locally-run AI, and how much wider the possibilities are than the chat window that has taken over the popular imagination.

You'll then design your own bot on paper: what it knows, how you interact with it, what it would never do, and who owns the data. From there, we bring those designs to life using Ollama, free open source software that runs large language models entirely on your own machine, configuring each bot with its own persona, purpose, and rules.

You'll leave with a bot running on your own machine, and the confidence to keep shaping it on your terms.

No prior coding experience required. Participants are encouraged to install Ollama before the session.

Workshop requirements: Laptop with Ollama (https://ollama.com/) installed.

Mahalia Henry-Richards

Build-a-bot: take back your tools

"A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words”, William Carlos Williams (1944)

In this workshop, we will use visual poetry techniques and writing constraints to create small (and large) machine[s] out of words, drawing inspiration from movements including Concrete Poetry and the Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, combining writing and mathematics). We will spotlight the work of spatialist poet Ilse Garnier and experiment with both analogue and digital approaches (with p5.js). This workshop is open to those who feel comfortable with writing as well as those who usually avoid it. It can still be enjoyed with no previous coding experience.

This workshop is part of Processing Community Day, we are prioritising young people aged between 18 and 25 years old who are not in employment and education.

Processing Community Day Workshop: Small (or large) machines made of words

Affectionately known as the ‘grande dame’ of digital art, Vera Molnar (1924–2023) was a remarkable artist who began using computers and algorithms long before digital art became mainstream. This talk explores Molnar’s creative practice, which is also the focus of the new V&A display Degrees of Disruption: Vera Molnar and Generative Art. Discover how her early experiments with computer graphics shaped her approach to geometric abstraction and painting, and how she used algorithms to challenge conventional ideas about art. The session looks at Molnar’s playful and rigorous approach to art-making over seven decades. It considers how she turned rules and randomness into powerful tools, and why her ideas continue to resonate with artists exploring the creative possibilities of machines, systems, and chance.

Between Order and Chaos: The Art of Vera Molnar

Inspired by Processing Foundation's Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn events. Peckham Digital will be brining together London's grassroot organisations that support the spread of creative computing practices.

Part one of this event will involve quick fire presentations on approaches to teaching code from:

    Yaa Addae from Future Inventions
    Katie Tindle from In-grid
    Nadezhda Khalid from London Live Coding
    Ana Meisel from Permacomputing Club
    Melissa Li from Phreaking Collective/Cranberry Lemonade
    Dr Winnie Soon from Slade Art+Tech Research Lab, UCL

Part two of the event will be led like an unconference:

    Bring your questions for the panellists
    Share your own Learning or Teaching practices when it comes to code
    Pitch new practices that haven't been tried before, let's try them together!

TOWNHALL: Learning to Teach

Join us for a night of Audio-Visual celebration and performances. We'll kick things off with an open mic, so please bring your laptop and jam with us! 

The open mic will then be followed with performances by:

Behind the signal by Talia'Kah:

Behind the signal is a live generative audiovisual performance combining VJing, coded experimental music, and real-time video capture. The piece explores signal, perception, and human-machine dialogue, unfolding as a form of electronic poetry where images and sounds continuously mutate in real time. Each performance is unique, shaped by the interaction between systems, performer, space, and audience. The audience is immersed in a hybrid environment where they can see both the final audiovisual output and the underlying creative process. A live screen capture reveals the generative systems in action, while cameras record the performer, the technical setup, and the audience itself. These layers are integrated into the performance, making the space, the crowd, and the moment part of the artwork. Visuals are generated using Coollab while sound is created live using TidalCycles. The audience experience is open and accessible, no technical knowledge required. The work invites participants into a contemplative yet active sensory environment where perception is destabilized and the boundaries between observer, system, and artwork dissolve. The performance aims to make digital creation visible, immersive, and participatory.

Lithium Womb by LAPTOPBACK
From primordial chaos, a cosmic egg gestates. Metal liquefies into slime, entities and nature gradually emerge governed by their own physics, spawning through lithium-charged circuits until a strange settling into the hum of computer blue, a slow growing current embedded in screens and bodies, a reflection on processing today's world. Live lunar cycles, solar winds, and Schumann resonance data are pulled into the visuals, the performance calibrating to planetary signals through open data connections.

Twisted dreams by Ali Bross
Ali will perform songs from his upcoming album, Artificial Insignificance, in an audiovisual live set. The images are created with a visual synthesis tool he has developed, responding to played notes and musical cues throughout the performance. The work explores the uneasy relationship between control, escape and isolation. It draws on the attraction of a world entirely of your own making, and the possibility of becoming trapped within it.

Live Audio-visual Performances

 The workshop aims to provide all the basic skills needed to utilise Pure Data's audio processing functions, and provides a jumping off point for attendees to create their own unique pieces of sound art.

Intro to Pure Data

Building Beats with Strudel is a beginner-friendly, hands-on workshop exploring how live coding can be used as a tool for making music. Participants will learn the basics of Strudel, a browser-based live coding environment, while building an amapiano-inspired beat from scratch.

Building Beats with Strudel

This session introduces Bonsai through the lens of an interactive installation. Starting from a blank canvas, we will build a live demo that reads from a camera and microphone, processes those signals in real time, and routes the results to visual and audio effects.

Bonsai: Wiring the World into Sound and Image

This talk is about creating life with code. From micro-organisms up to city-scale social webs, Artificial Life (or ALife) is the study of living systems through simulation; mimicking the natural world so we can examine it, tear it apart and see what happens if we put it back together just a bit differently. Well before ‘LLMs’ entered the fray, ‘agents’ were the inhabitants of these simulations. I’ll open with a history of the field, beginning with parasitic computer viruses. 

What Makes a Good Artificial Life Simulation?

In this workshop, we'll cover everything needed to build a wall drawing robot—a vertical plotter often called a polargraph—a project that takes just a few hours and costs under £100.

Build Your Own Wall Drawing Robot

In this talk, Lu Wilson confronts the automation in their artistic practice: From cellular automata to surrealist automatism to "f*** off ai music" and beyond.


Automation and Us

This beginner-friendly workshop invites artists, illustrators, fashion enthusiasts and anyone curious about creative technology to transform hand-drawn fashion illustrations into projection-mapped digital artworks.

From Moodboard to Mannequin: A Beginner’s Guide to Projection Mapping

Join artist and curator Chisato Minamimura for a specially designed tour of this year’s Peckham Digital exhibition. Guided in British Sign Language (BSL), the tour offers Deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors the chance to explore and experience 10 interactive works up close, gaining unique insights into the artists, ideas, and technologies behind them.

British Sign Language Exhibition Tour

In this talk June will be drawing connections between her two contributions to the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference (NIME '26), which are the microtonal feedback instrument Ephemerides and a site-specific séance in the Wick Woods. Where the two contributions talk about specific ideas surrounding design, musical context, and research, this talk will introduce ideas and reflections surrounding a thesis of her own artistic practice: voice training technology as a mode of magic and witchcraft.

Voice, Technology, and Witchcraft

Across a gamified vote-based performance lecture, Side Quest author Elliott Burns invites you to question what we mean when we say 'art game'. Pulling upon and unpacking multiple definitions of this term and setting them in a historical schema, What Even Is An Art Game? is an opportunity to take out your phone to strong-agree to strongly-disagree with statements, propositions, examples and the very nature of video games in gallery contexts.

What Even is An Art Game?

As XR moves into the mainstream, one of the biggest challenges is ensuring that the technology is designed for the diversity of people and contexts it aims to serve. Much of today's XR research and development is based on datasets, environments, and assumptions drawn from a relatively narrow set of users, yet these systems are increasingly being deployed globally. Drawing on Mashall's experience teaching XR design in Pakistan, Mashall will explore how perspectives from outside traditional technology hubs can reveal blind spots around accessibility, affordability, cultural relevance, language, and real-world adoption. 

Who Gets Seen in XR? Data, Diversity, and Generalization in Extended Reality

Join us for an evening of short films where cinema meets code. Digital Reel presents eight works created with creative computing technologies.

Screened together for one night only, the programme offers a rare chance to experience how filmmakers and artists are using computation not just as a tool, but as a medium in its own right.