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Creative Coding Leiden
Creative Coding Leiden is a new platform for digital creativity in Leiden. We connect creatives of all stripes and share our experiences. We aim to collaborate with cultural and educational organizations and reach out to the public.
100% creativity! Fun guaranteed!
Code
Creative coding lets you make stunning visuals, sound, animations, and games.
Next meet-up
March 16, 2:oo pm; café de Keyzer, Leiden. All welcome!
Engage
Unleash your imagination and turn your ideas into interactive art using 3D or AI.
Interact
Share your digital dreams and experiences those of other people.
Invent Your Reality
Hack your imagination and construct virtual worlds, simulations, and experiences that captivate and inspire.
Grow
Undertake your first ever exploration of creative coding, or develop your artistic practice as a professional.
Join Creative Coding Leiden - where code sparks art and imagination takes flight.
Welcome to CCL
At this moment, CCL is just this website, and an aspiration.
An aspiration
- to bring together people of all ages and from all backgrounds
- to use computers to express ourselves creatively
- to grow and have fun together
On this site, you can find out more about our goal, activities, and partners as our ideas take shape and become actions.
Watch this space!
Activities
Context
What is happening with creative coding in Leiden?
Beyond a course at Leiden University, not much, it seems. Obviously, this needs to change!
Compare this to Amsterdam, where creative coding meet-ups take place regularly, or Utrecht, where Creative Coding Utrecht organizes a wide variety of activities.
Consider that Leiden is a city with a large and prominent university. A university with an Arts department and close collaboration with the Royal Academy of Art.
Leiden has an expanding working population and a flowering ecosystem of innovative organizations, start-ups and growing businesses.
Leiden is full of people with vision, drive and creativity.
Leiden needs creative coding.
Why do it?
Creative coding
- helps people express themselves, take control and make sense
- teaches important skills such as procedural thinking, problem-solving, and goal-oriented activity
- opens up a world of form, color, beauty, function, and design is fun to do and to share
Potential activities
education (workshops, classes, videos) • meetups • exhibitions • assignments from universities and businesses • artist in residence • data walks • open office • colabs • resources (examples, documentation, Q&A)
Potential partners
Ars Aemula Naturae • academievanleiden.nl • Creative Coding Utrecht and similar organizations in other cities • gemeente Leiden • Haagweg 4 • KABK • leidendevs.nl • Makerspace Leiden • PLNT • Technolab • Universiteit Leiden
Creative coding
What is it?
Creative coding is the art of crafting digital wonders, where imagination and code collide to bring ideas to life.
Inspiration
To get an idea of the breadth and depth of creative coding - or generative art, computer art, algorithmic art, or whatever you want to call it - check out the Design in Motion Festival. During this 24-hour festival, in October 2022, works produced by creative coding were displayed on more than 5000 screens in train stations, shopping centers, airports, on the streets and along the highways.
Examples
We have a whole page of them!
Resources
Want to find out more? These are good places to start:
P5
P5.js is a JavaScript library for creative coding, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive for artists, designers, educators, beginners, and anyone else! p5.js is free and open-source because we believe software, and the tools to learn it, should be accessible to everyone.
Coding Train
The Coding Train with Daniel Shiffman is community dedicated to learning creative coding with beginner-friendly tutorials and projects on YouTube and more.
First meeting
