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  "content": "---\ntitle: \"Mapping the livecoding landscape\"\ndescription: \"A reference list of key people, ICLC committees and TOPLAP nodes in the\n  global livecoding community.\"\ntags:\n  - livecoding\n  - research\n---\n\n## People\n\n- [**Andrew Sorensen**](https://twitter.com/digego), _indie_\n- [**Alex McLean**](https://yaxu.org), _indie_\n- [**Julian Rohrhuber**](https://wertlos.org/~rohrhuber/), _Institute for Music\n  and Media, RSH Düsseldorf_\n- [**Andrew Brown**](https://andrewrbrown.net.au/), _Queensland College of Art,\n  Griffith University_\n- [**Nick Collins**](https://www.dur.ac.uk/music/staff/profile/?id=11477),\n  _Department of Music, Durham University_\n- [**Thor Magnusson**](https://thormagnusson.github.io/), _Music Department,\n  University of Sussex_\n- [**Ge Wang**](https://www.gewang.com), _CCRMA, Stanford University_\n- [**Sam Aaron**](https://sam.aaron.name/), _indie_\n- [**Alan Blackwell**](https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~afb21/), _Cambridge Computer\n  Laboratory_\n- [**Dave Griffiths**](https://fo.am/people/dave/), _FoAM Kernow_\n- [**Shelley Knotts**](https://shellyknotts.wordpress.com), _Department of\n  Music, Durham University_\n- [**Joanne Armitage**](https://twitter.com/joannnne), _School of Media and\n  Communication, University of Leeds_\n- [**Renick Bell**](https://renickbell.net/), _indie_\n- [**David Ogborn**](https://www.dktr0.net), _Department of Communication\n  Studies and Multimedia, McMaster University_\n- [**Charlie Roberts**](https://charlie-roberts.com/), _Computer Science,\n  Worcester Polytechnic Institute_\n- [**Kate Sicchio**](https://blog.sicchio.com/), _Integrated Digital Media, New\n  York University_\n- [**Mauro**](https://www.cyberpunk.net.ar), _indie_\n- [**Jack Armitage**](https://www.jackarmitage.com/), _Centre for Digital Music,\n  Queen Mary University of London_\n- [**Luis Navarro Del Angel**](https://luisnavarrodelangel.net/), _Department of\n  Communication Studies and Multimedia, McMaster University_\n- [**Mike Hodnick**](https://kindohm.com/), _indie_\n\n## ICLC committees\n\n### 2020 Limerick, Ireland\n\nProgramme Chair: Giuseppe Torre\n\nPerformances Chair: Neil O'Connor\n\nWorkshops Chair: Nicholas Ward\n\nInstallations Chair: Nora O Murchú\n\n### 2019 Madrid, Spain\n\nChair - Jesús Jara López Co-Chair - Lina Bautista Co-Chair - Iván Paz\nPerformance Chair - Juan A. Romero Scientific Chair - Enrike Hurtado\nInstallations/Workshops Coordinator - Joaquín Díaz Durán Production Adviser -\nMaite Camacho Identity & Web - Adrián Cano/Jana Domínguez Assistance - Live Code\nMad\n\n### 2017 Morelia, México\n\n#### Core organising committee\n\nChair - Alexandra Cárdenas Co-Chair Ernesto Romero Co-Chair Luis Navarro del\nAngel Performance Chair - Jorge Ramírez Scientific Chair - Juan Sebastián Lach\nProduction Adviser - Minerva Hernández Trejo Identity & Web - Karen del Valle,\nRodrigo Velasco, Felipe Ignacio Networks - Malitzin Cortés\n\n#### Steering Committee\n\nDavid Ogborn, Chair (McMaster University) Alex McLean (Deutsches Museum) Shelly\nKnotts (Durham University) Thor Magnusson (University of Sussex) Kate Sicchio\n(New York University) Graham Wakefield (York University)\n\n### 2016 McMaster University, Canada\n\n#### Local organising committee\n\nDavid Ogborn, General chair (McMaster University) Graham Wakefield, Co-chair\n(York University) Christina Baade, Scientific programme committee chair\n(McMaster University) Kate Sicchio, Artistic programme committee chair (New York\nUniversity) Tanya Goncalves, Workshops chair (McMaster University) Harold\nSikkema, Design and videography coordinator (McMaster University)\n\n#### Steering committee\n\nAlex McLean, Chair (FoAM Kernow) Shelly Knotts (Durham University) Thor\nMagnusson (University of Sussex) David Ogborn (McMaster University) Kate Sicchio\n(Parsons the New School for Design) Graham Wakefield (York University)\n\n#### Programme committee\n\nSamuel Aaron (University of Cambridge) Amy Alexander (University of California,\nSan Diego) Juan Alzate Romero (IMWI - HfM Karlsruhe) Joanne Armitage (University\nof Leeds) Christina Baade (McMaster University) Holger Ballweg (Northumbria\nUniversity) Sara Bannerman (McMaster University) Renick Bell Yael Benn\n(Manchester Metropolitan University) Daven Bigelow (McMaster University) Alan\nBlackwell (University of Cambridge) Patrick Borgeat (University of Music,\nKarlsruhe) Victoria Bradbury (Alfred University / NYSCC / SoAD) Karen Burland\n(University of Leeds) Pam Burnard (University of Cambridge) Alexandra Cárdenas\n(University of the Arts, Berlin) Jacques Carette (McMaster University) Luke\nChurch (University of Cambridge) Geoff Cox (Aarhus University) Georg Essl\n(University of Michigan) Andrew Fischer (Shutterfly, Inc) Paula Gardner\n(McMaster University) Tanya Goncalves (McMaster University) Tom Hall (Anglia\nRuskin University) Mike Hodnick Aaron Hutchinson (Hamilton Audio-Visual Node)\nIan Jarvis (York University) Ali Khajehei (McMaster University) Chris Kiefer\n(University of Sussex) Shelly Knotts (Durham University) Shawn Lawson\n(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Sang Won Lee (University of Michigan) Thor\nMagnusson (University of Sussex) Alex McLean (FoAM Kernow) James Noble (Victoria\nUniversity of Wellington) Matthew Paine (McMaster University) Roly Perera\n(University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh) Charlie Roberts (Rochester\nInstitute of Technology) Julian Rohrhuber (Institute For Music And Media, Robert\nSchumann Hochschule) Adriana Sa (Goldsmiths College, University of London) Kate\nSicchio (Parsons the New School for Design) Harold Sikkema (McMaster University)\nDagobert Sondervan Andrew Sorensen Dana Swarbrick (McMaster University) Ben\nSwift (Australian National University) Steven Tanimoto (University of\nWashington) Eldad Tsabary (Concordia University) Anne Veinberg (Orpheus\nInstitute/Leiden University/Conservatorium Amsterdam) Graham Wakefield (York\nUniversity) Joseph Wilk (Poetic Computation) Scott Wilson (University of\nBirmingham) Matthew Yee-King (Goldsmiths College, University of London) Andrea\nZeffiro (McMaster University)\n\n### 2015 University of Leeds, UK\n\n#### Core organising committee\n\nAlex McLean, General chair (University of Leeds) Thor Magnusson, Co-chair\n(University of Sussex) Kia Ng, Scientific programme committee chair (University\nof Leeds) Shelly Knotts, Artistic programme committee chair (University of\nDurham) Joanne Armitage, Workshop and special events chair (University of Leeds)\n\n#### Evening event producer\n\nAsh Sagar\n\n#### External advisors\n\nJuan A. Romero Patrick Borgeat\n\n#### Programme committee\n\n_same as 2016_\n\n## TOPLAP nodes\n\nThis list is pinched _directly_ from the\n[TOPLAP website](https://toplap.org/nodes/) (as at 21 Sep 2019):\n\n- [Livecode NYC](https://livecode.nyc/) (USA)\n- [TOPLAP Node Yorkshire](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1683408058575303/)\n  (UK)\n- [TOPLAP Node North-East](https://www.facebook.com/groups/897471030365142/)\n  (UK)\n- [TOPLAP Node México](https://www.facebook.com/toplap.mx/) (MX)\n- [Cybernetic Orchestra](https://www.facebook.com/groups/toplapnodeberlin/1725919034313087/)\n  (CA)\n- [TOPLAP Berlin](https://www.facebook.com/groups/toplapnodeberlin/1725919034313087/)\n  (DE)\n- [TOPLAP Medellín](https://noiskate.hotglue.me/?ToplapMedellin) (CO)\n- [TOPLAP Bogotá](https://www.facebook.com/groups/626111581071250/) (CO)\n- [TOPLAP Quito](https://www.facebook.com/groups/583681711997021/) (EC)\n- [TOPLAP Lima](https://www.facebook.com/groups/362002184270964/) (PE)\n- [TOPLAP Buenos Aires](https://livecodear.github.io/) (AR)\n- [Live coding à Montréal](https://montreal.toplap.org) (CA)\n- [TOPLAP Barcelona](https://toplapbarcelona.hangar.org/) (ES)\n- [TOPLAP Japan](https://twitter.com/toplapjp) (JP)\n- [NL_CL (Netherlands Coding Live) node](https://netherlands-coding-live.github.io)\n  (NL)\n- [Live coding @ IMPA (Rio de Janeiro)](https://w3.impa.br/~vitorgr/livecode/)\n  (BR)\n- [TOPLAP Greater Bay Area](https://www.facebook.com/groups/353595622030440/)\n  (CN)\n- [Tidalclub Sheffield](https://tidalclub.github.io/sheffield.html) (UK)\n- [CLiC (Colectivo de Live Coders)](https://colectivo-de-livecoders.gitlab.io/)\n  (AR)\n- [Livecode New England](https://livecodenewengland.org/) (USA)\n- [TOPLAP Italia](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1051671308353969/) (IT)\n- [TOPLAP France](https://www.facebook.com/groups/toplapfr/) (FR)\n- [Algorave France & Belgique](https://algorave.fr/) (FR/BE)\n- [Live Coding Frankfurt](https://www.meetup.com/Live-Coding-Frankfurt/) (DE)\n- [TOPLAP Valdiva](https://toplapvaldivia.wixsite.com/website) (CL)\n- [LiveCoding Düsseldorf](https://www.facebook.com/groups/587715001671363/) (DE)\n",
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  "title": "Mapping the livecoding landscape"
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