Image alt text: Homepage of the Critical Coding Cookbook website. Behind the title, Critical Coding Cookbook: an Intersectional Feminist Approach to Teaching and Learning, there is a dark background with tessellated neon yellow and pink triangles.
It was a joy and delight putting this “recipe” together for the Critical Coding Cookbook. Although I consider myself a perpetual novice at creative coding and programming, one of the most memorable parts of learning how to code was when I first used Processing back, sometime in 2010 (I think!) to create patterns and shapes. In recent years, I’ve created text generators with p5.js and have used the p5 Editor to experiment and play around with making simple games. Please take a look at the amazing recipes from artists, writers, and educators.
Official Project Description and Contributors List
the Critical Coding Cookbook website contains a collection of 24 recipes that consider computer programming from cultural, philosophical, and decolonial frameworks.
Visit https://criticalcode.recipes to check out contributions by Kit Kuksenok, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Noam Youngrak Son, Morgan Green, Kathy Wu, evelyn masso, Dorothy R. Santos, Sara Rivera, Tegan Bristow, Lavannya Surresh, Shafali J, Micah A, Sanketh K, Echo Theohar, Kevin Lee, Shayna Robinson, Anuradha Reddy, Nancy Mauro-Flude (sister0.tv), Roopa Vasudevan, Kemi Sijuwade-Ukadike, Joana Chicau, Renick Bell, Becca Rose, Mario Guzman, Winnie Yoe, Annina Rüst, and Tamara Moura Costa.
The project is led and edited by Xin Xin and Katherine Moriwaki. Visual identity, website design, and implementation by Kevin Cadena.
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Dorothy R. Santos
Dorothy R. Santos (she/they) is a Filipino American writer, artist, and educator whose academic and research interests include feminist media histories, computational media, critical medical anthropology, technology, race, and ethics. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz as a Eugene V. Cota-Robles fellow. She received her Master’s degree in Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and holds Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of San Francisco. Her work as been exhibited at Ars Electronica, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the GLBT Historical Society.
Her writing appears in art21, Art in America, Ars Technica, Hyperallergic, Rhizome, Vice Motherboard, and SF MOMA’s Open Space. Her essay “Materiality to Machines: Manufacturing the Organic and Hypotheses for Future Imaginings,” was published in The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture. She is a co-founder of REFRESH, a politically-engaged art and curatorial collective and serves as the Executive Director for the Processing Foundation. She is an advisor for Brooklyn-based arts and tech organization POWRPLNT and Bay Area-based arts organization slash arts.
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