Catodo

I believe that code is poetry and I express myself with it

Internet Festival (2019)

I've been invited as panelist to discuss about creative programming at Internet Festival 2019 of Pisa (Italy).
I presented how I play with algorithms and data using open source softwares and public data sets. Moreover, I did an audio/video performance using 3000+ photos from the NYPL Digital Collections.

Internet Festival

Pietro Grossi: Arte e/o Computer (2017)

I presented a talk about creative coding at Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci of Prato (Italy), during the centenary of Pietro Grossi.
Great honor to present a live coding session at the celebration of Pietro Grossi, a composer pioneer of computer music, visual artist and hacker ahead of his time.

Centro Pecci

Big Data & Computational Art (2015)

I presented the talk "Big Data & Computational Art" during the DataBeers meetup in Turin (Italy). During the talk I did a demo of my TweetJukebox interactive installation.

Slides on speakerdeck.com - Photo of the talk

DataBeers Torino

Emotional interaction with Theremino (2014)

I co-presented the talk "Emotional interaction with Theremino" during the Internet Of Things conference in Turin, together with Prof. Ennio Bertrand from the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti of Turin. During the talk we did a demo of Theremino, an open source input-output device, showing a simple robot piloted via internet.

Internet Of Things

Experiments in code, generative art in Javascript (2014)

I presented the talk "Experiments in code, generative art in Javascript" during the Javascript Day international conference in Verona (Italy). During the talk I did a demo of Random cuts, performance using a Javascript version of the software built using p5js.

Video on vimeo.com - Slides on speakerdeck.com

Javascript Day

Creative programming, creating with a computer language (2013)

I presented the talk "Creative programming, creating with a computer language" for the TEDx Crocetta in Turin (Italy). I did a brief introduction to creative programming and I tried to explain why I consider programming an art and a wat to express ourselve.

Video on youtube.com

TEDx Crocetta

Creative coding with Processing (2013)

I presented the talk "Creative coding with Processing" during the Digital Festival 2013 in Turin (Italy). I did a brief introduction to creative coding using Processing language.

Slides on speakerdeck.com (in Italian)

Digital Festival

Introduction to generative art (2012)

I presented an introduction to generative art at the Pictor Academy in Turin (Italy). I did an historical overview of generative art showing some artworks of famous artistis. I also presented a demo of creative coding using Processing language.

Slides on speakerdeck.com (in Italian)

Pictor Academy