Code and Play

​​​Join Daniel Shiffman (artist, coder, teacher, professor at ITP at Tisch/NYU) and Noah Landow (CEO at Macktez) for an informal conversation between an expert on the playful exploration of code and the founder of a technology consulting firm.

​Code has become both a critical concept and central element of discourse in modern times, but much of the mainstream  discussion of it treats it as an abstract, black box mystery or an obscure opaque foreign language -- when code can be easily understood and accessible to all. Daniel’s charming, enthusiastic, and prolific work explaining code and playful coding concepts has helped make it accessible to a broad range of people. 

​Join us at the Macktez office, after work, over light snacks and sips, for an exploratory conversation and to hear interesting perspectives on how code and learning to code can help us understand the world around us. We’ll bounce from rainbows and unicorns to the early days of computational art, the launch of the language known as Processing to the birth of p5.js, foundations and nonprofits and other orgs, and talk about electrified green peppers, publishing the Nature of Code, and other projects. 

​(Also, Shiffbot! Offers a great final touchstone for our next Tête-à-Tech on using AI.)