Art + Code

After her brilliant talk at the last XOXO, we’re thrilled Jenn Schiffer agreed to return to XOXO to emcee our first Art+Code event. As Glitch’s community engineer, Jenn is a pioneer in making art with code, teaching code with art, and making open-source tools to play with both.

Baratunde Thurston is an Emmy-nominated futurist comedian, writer, and cultural critic who helped re-launch The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, co-founded Cultivated Wit and the About Race podcast, and wrote the New York Times bestseller How To Be Black.

Research scientist Janelle Shane believes in letting neural networks be weird, training AI to write unintentional humor, generating everything from recipes and knitting patterns to uniquely ridiculous names for guinea pigs, crayon colors, and craft beers.

By day, Monica Dinculescu is an Emojineer at Google, where she works on Polymer, web components, and Chrome. At night, she makes side projects that do ridiculous and wonderful things with emoji, like generate emoji gardens, translate text to emoji, and make it rain emoji.

Brooklyn-based programmer and artist Nicole He is the genius behind projects like True Love Tinder Robot, The Best Art, and Soylent Dick, which is exactly what it sounds like. Her most recent work is Enhance.computer, a cyberpunk game played with your voice in the browser.

Using only a text editor, UI engineer Diana Smith creates elaborate art inspired by oil paintings with pure CSS. The results are a stunning and unique fusion of art and code, with remarkable results when viewed in older browsers.

A collective art project started by Roberto Baldwin and internet hero Darth, the Hard G Project showcased original animated GIFs on the streets of San Francisco from a variety of artists, and now brings those collected works to XOXO.

Becca is a creative technologist, researcher, and activist engaged in issues of privacy and freedom of expression online, currently as a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow at Human Rights Watch. While pursuing her master's from ITP, she researched and built interactive experiences that probe algorithmic and surveillance systems.

Achingly beautiful and hard to categorize, Everest Pipkin’s artwork often reflects the physical and natural world through digital space — generative moths and star fields, fragmented and fictional landscapes, exploring clouds on Street View. Their latest project is Ellinger, TX, a slice-of-life game in a small Texas town cut out from the networked world.

Artist and inventor Kate Compton makes things to help people make things that make things — generative art and procedural content tools like Tracery, a super-simple tool to generate text for bots, games, and more, and Bottery, an experimental new tool for building chatbots, voice interface games, or weird experimental experiences.

Omayeli is an artist and technologist from Nigeria currently playing with data at the Recurse Center in NYC. Her most recent projects include Face the Music, a Glitch app that lets you make and record music with your facial expressions, and Art Connoisseur, a Twitter bot that interprets and comments on historical art.

Botnik Studios is an entertainment group developed to exhibit work created by the Botnik community, a group of writers, artists and developers collaborating with machines to create comedy, using predictive keyboards to generate new Scrubs monologues, Coachella lineups, Harry Potter pages, song lyrics, and more.