Experience the convergence of Art and Technology.

- 5 Floors of Art, Tech and Music
- 15+ Artists
- 17 Musicians

Our 3rd year strong, CODAME brings together independent artists, creators, performers and musicians for one night to find where Art and Technology meet. Join us as we explore this year’s theme, DIMENSIONS.

We are inviting artists to submit works to exhibit at the festival.

Special prizes for

• Live Drawing Art Contest

• Indie Game Arcade Awards

• Best Halloween costume

This is a non-profit event. Tickets are limited! Grab yours now! Doors open on Saturday, Oct. 27th, 2012 at 8PM with no hard stop.

Cyriak, Anastazia Louise Aranaga, Superdeux, Elisa Sassi, Chris Ritson, Jonathan Wallraven, Bad Unkl Sista, Reza Ali, Alexandernaut, Keisuke Shingu aka VJ KSKA, Josh Nimoy, David OReilly, Xavi Vives Riba, Wes Grubbs, ANI, Ryan Alexander, OuterBody

After years of waiting an inspiring and great Flash event returns to San Francisco and we want to celebrate and share the excitement with you around FITC with CODAME

If you are a geek, designer or developer join CODAME, a San Francisco party for the tech industries greatest creative minds, packed together on a roof deck with the brightest Bay Area Art Geek regulars.

CODAME is an invitation only exclusive gathering, space is limited.
Monday, 16th of August, 2010 (day before FITC starts) at 8pm til midnight.

Final confirmation and exact location will be sent some days before the event, only to registered people.

@Starpause, @keisukes @andremichelle and TrustFundKilla will be playing some tunes on the roof-top. @radley @calebhaye @jamiew @EvanMorris and transmote by Eric Socolofsky art tech artist projects will be on display.

Plus, amazing location- private roof-top downtown San Francisco – with superb view included. This event will be simply a blast !

We have some amazing local volunteers helping. If you want to help too, show your work under the stars or have a cool idea for the event. Contact @BrunoFonzi

Thank you so far for the following supporters:

Powerflasher is one of the main sponsors for this event celebrating one year anniversary in USA as a Digital Interactive Development company.

Gaia Online Founded in 2003, Gaia Online is the leading online hangout for teens and young adults. More than eight million visitors come to Gaia Online every month to make friends, play games, and participate in the world’s most active online community. Gaia Online provides a fun, social environment that inspires individuality and creativity. With everything from art contests to discussion forums on poetry, politics, celebrities and more, to fully customizable profiles, digital characters and cars, Gaia Online is a place where teens can create their own space and express their individual style. They are hiring, so look out !

Organic is a leading digital communications agency that uses a consumer-empathy-based approach, combined with a holistic view of the digital landscape, to design and build exceptional interactive experiences that effectively engage and persuade customers. Founded in 1993, Organic has offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, London and Toronto. Adweek ranked Organic as the number one interactive agency in their 2007 interactive agency report card. Organic is a part of Omnicom Group Inc.

Mypressi has become the rockstar of the espresso world with the first handheld device that can make a perfect shot of espresso with water or, more relevantly, any other liquid. They will be pulling amazing shots at the CoDaMe Party. Stop by for some super smooth ‘spro-based cocktails. And remember, always code responsibly.

Influxis powers interactive Flash applications and the best parties for the community. The team will have its own bar and serving very hot cool cocktails during CODAME, I hope you can handle it!

FITC knows how to build amazing flash events! FITC has been generous to support CODAME by offering major discounts if you decide to support CODAME too, we need more more drinks and food for hungry flash developers & designers.

The CODAME ART+TECH Festival 2011 is a unique experience that features the convergence of art, tech and filmmaking with engagement of the audience documenting the moment.

Join other creative minds, cool speakers, independent short films and enjoy local artist’s work - Music & Drinks included!

Meet with a wide variety of new media & video 2.0 producers, creators, writers, bloggers, journalists, technologists, developers, managers, executive, investors, advertisers, small and large businesses, fans and more.

Give away prize:

Be spontaneous, don’t need to be a pro, grab your camera and start shooting! Win Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium for the most voted video

Join us

How the ART+TECH Festival Works

There’s no single way to join the ART+TECH Festival. Creativity doesn’t move in straight lines—and neither do people. You might build, imagine, organize, mentor, or simply explore. Every way of showing up is valid. Every role matters.

The Creative Hackathon is a starting point, not an endpoint. It’s where ideas begin—but it doesn’t mean writing code. For us, a creative hackathon means expressing an idea in your own medium: images, video, sound, performance, sculpture, poetry, installations, or forms that don’t yet have a name. Code is welcome—but not expected.

What matters is the creative use of art and technology, and a connection to The New Human theme.

Some ideas may grow over time into full installations and experiences, shared during Milano Art Week + Design Week 2026, and later in San Francisco, Shanghai, and other cities around the world.

Let’s imagine The New Human in ten years (2036)

We are not born new. We grow from fragments—scars, memories, languages, and code—layered into hybrid forms of body, mind, and culture. Like a coral reef formed from debris, we take shape under pressure. Technology, biology, and imagination intertwine, creating futures that are uneven, adaptive, and alive.

We have some questions for you to consider:

Mind: When cognition is shared between humans and machines,
where does thinking end — and where does authorship begin?

Body: As bodies become augmented and programmable,
what remains deeply personal, emotional, and human?

Society: Living inside a digital nervous system,
how do we design for care, agency, and connection — not just efficiency?

We invite experiments, encounters, and shared reflection—through art, technology, and human presence. Learn more about the theme:

The Emergence — Featured Project Showcase

Mar. 19, 2026 - Online ​

2026 Roadshow:

The New Human @ Design Week Milano

• Apr. 24, 2026 - Milan, Italy​ @ Google (Register)

• Sept. 2026 - Berlin, Germany @ Chockolate (Stay tuned…)

• Oct. 2026 - San Francisco, CA, USAMilan, Italy​

• Nov. 2026 Shangii, China @ To be confirmed

Interested in mentoring? Apply to join us and explore the full mentor list at codame.com/s/mentors

Our Founders

Join us to bring the event to life — supporting teams, guiding flow, and shaping the experience from the inside.

Be part of the community leading us into Milano Art Week + Design Week 2026,
and future exhibitions, toolkits, and residencies around the world.

Volunteer

So do we — and we’ve gathered what we know so far below.
This festival is a living process, and these answers will evolve as we do.

The schedule is taking shape, with new dates to be revealed soon. Stay connected—follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, or WhatsApp and join our newsletter for upcoming announcements.

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2036 Begins here: Projects, People, and Possibilities

Feb. 18, 2026 @ Online

Creative Hackathon (24 hours)

Mar. 6-7, 2026 Milano, San Francisco + Online

The New Human Creative Hackathon unfolds as one shared global experience across multiple cities and time zones.

Jan. 28, 2026  @ Online Video Conference

Jan. 21, 2026 @ TrueLayer, Milano

Nov. 5, 2025

The CODAME ART+TECH Festival will explore the manifold dimensions of SPACE with an incredible lineup schedule, including nightlife installations and performances, a variety of workshops, and community gathering art+tech salon to close off the Festival.

Space is a canvas on which we write our stories, paint our dreams, and build our realities. “We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.” - Buckminster Fuller.

/// WHEN + WHERE

Oct. 25-27, 2019 @ GitHub, 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St, San Francisco, CA

/// NIGHTLIFE

Friday 10/25 and Saturday 10/26 Evenings from 6pm to 11pm

Same performances applies for opening and closing nights with the following schedule:

6:00 PM Doors Open

8:30 PM Barim by Jihee Hwang

9:00 PM Illusion by Haein Kang

9:30 PM Arubina by Catie Cuan, Amy LaViers, and Catherine Maguire

10:00 PM Skin by Axel Cuevas Santamaria

10:30 PM In Real Light by d0n.xyz

11:00 PM Close

/// WORKSHOPS

Saturday 10/26

Morning 10am to 2pm:

• Make Art With AI with Gary Boodhoo

• Data Visualization with James Proctor

• Sound-Space Music with Moldover

• Time bending media with Virgil Widrich

Afternoon 2pm to 5pm:

• Science Through Story with Sara ElShafie

• Analog + Digital 360 Sketching with Michael Scherotter

• Immersive XR Journeys with Jasmine Roberts

• Augmented Reality Art with Angeli Clarisse Lata

/// SALON

Sunday 10/27 Afternoon from 1pm to 3pm

Wrapping up the『 SPACE 』with a Salon style community gathering including a panel and a fireside chat with CODAME Founders + Team.

"Injecting Artists into High-Tech Startups to Transform Industries"

Moderated by Rosemarie Truman

Panelists:

• Joe Andolina, Director of Product Marking at Salesforce

• Dr. Janeann Dill, Creative Intelligence Consultant

• Diana Ayton-Shenker, CEO at Leonardo/ISAST

• Martin Rauchbauer, Austrian Consul and Open Austria co-director

• Alistair Alexander, Project lead for The Glass Room at Tactical Tech

Followed by a fireside chat with CODAME Founders Bruno Fonzi, Jordan Gray and Art Curator Vanessa Chang and volunteers making the Festival happen!

Schedule:

1:00 PM Doors Open

1:30 PM Panel: "Injecting Artists into High-Tech Startups to Transform Industries"

2:30 PM Fireside chat with CODAME Founders and Team

3:00 PM Close.

See you next year!

/// RSVP

Thank you for your support for ART ♥ TECH

CODAME is a member of Intersection for the Arts a non profit 501(c)(3) organization. All proceeds will be split with the participating artists.

Reserve your ticket now! This is an all age event.

/// GET INVOLVED

There are many ways to support us:

• Get your tickets for the workshops, conference talks or nightlife event.

• Invite your friends or your teammates

• Join us a volunteer, we always need one more hand

• Support ART+TECH and become a sponsor.

Contact us

/// STAY IN TOUCH

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Code of Conduct for all attendees.

There will be only non-alcoholic drinks served at the festival.There are plenty of restaurants and bars in the area.

If you are attending the early Saturday workshops from 10am to 2pm, here recommendation to grab lunch around Github!

Participating Artists:

Project Experiences:

Partners:

Sponsors:

Get your tickets while still available for an extraordinary learning experience.

Thank you for your support for ART ♥ TECH !!!

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Milan and San Francisco, October 2024.

The 2024 CODAME ART+TECH Festival's overarching theme is #Essence. This theme encourages participants to explore the core elements driving creativity and the evolving relationship between art, technology, and humanity.

The festival aims to:

• Challenge artists, technologists, and innovators to peel back the layers of art and technology to reveal the fundamental forces behind human expression and innovation.

• Examine how art and technology merge to create new forms of expression, from brushstrokes to lines of code.

• Inspire connection and collaboration between creatives from around the world.

The theme is reflected in the various events, workshops, and discussions, prompting questions about the essence of creativity, the impact of AI on art, and what makes us human in a technologically driven world.

The Program

For the whole month of October, we will celebrate the Essence of human creativity and collaboration from San Francisco to Milano by placing people at the forefront of our mission.

The 2024 CODAME ART+TECH Festival takes place in two primary locations: Milan, Italy, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Milan: Festival events are concentrated in the Mare Culturale Urbano - Cascina Torrette venue.

• San Francisco Bay Area: Events are hosted in several venues:

  • Gray Area in San Francisco's Mission District.

  • ANNO DOMINI Gallery in San Jose.

  • Homebrew Crypto Club in San Francisco's SoMa District.

Additionally, a Virtual Exhibition component allows access from any location with the internet and a web browser.

Oct 1st - San Francisco, CA

Gallery Opening Day

Oct 2nd - Virtual

Oct 3rd - Milan, Italy

Oct 10th - San Jose, CA

Oct 17th - San Francisco, CA

Gallery Artist Salon

Oct 19th - San Francisco, CA

13 Hours: Artists v. Machine

Oct 25th - Milan, Italy

Oct 30th - San Francisco, CA

Closing the ART+TECH Festival in Costumes

Oct 31st - Milan, Italy

Prepare for groundbreaking experiences that explore the Essence of human creativity from San Francisco to Milan and beyond.

Don't miss this extraordinary adventure! Spark excitement in your team and align your brand with creative innovation by joining a network of visionaries supporting the celebration of ART+TECH. You'll reach a global audience passionate about building at the boundaries of human potential.

Whether you're a creator, curator, artist, or just curious, let's define the future together! Lend your passion as a volunteer and play an integral role in bringing the CODAME ART+TECH Festival 2024 to life. Unite with like-minded souls to create lasting connections and unforgettable experiences.

Join Us!

Team and Artists

Bruno Fonzi: Co-founder of CODAME ART+TECH.

Jordan Gray: Co-founder of CODAME ART+TECH.

Manuela Maya Mariani: A curator for the ART+TECH Festival in Milan. Also involved in organizing "Dialoghi Esperienziali" (Experiential Dialogues) events.

Christopher Schutte: Curator for the ART+TECH Festival in Milan.

Camila Blanco: Curator for the ART+TECH Festival in Milan, specializing in the "BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)" events.

Laura Triscritti: Curator for the ART+TECH Festival in Milan, focusing on the "MatchBox" events that connect artists and technologists.

Helen Lam: CODAME Virtual Architect who designed and developed the virtual exhibition catalog.

DC Spensley: CODAME Virtual Architect who designed and developed the virtual exhibition catalog. He also performs at Milan's "Are We Connected?" event.

Scott Snibbe: New media artist and meditation teacher speaking at "The Essence of Interactive Art" event in San Jose.

Camille Utterback: New media artist speaking at "The Essence of Interactive Art" event in San Jose.

Brian Knep: New media artist speaking at "The Essence of Interactive Art" event in San Jose.

Tim Thompson: Curator of "The Essence of Interactive Art" event in San Jose. Also a featured artist in the San Francisco festival.

Monica Mura: Experimental sound artist performing at Milan's "Are You Smarter than Me?" closing event.

Roberto Capuano: Electronic music artist performing at Milan's "Are You Smarter than Me?" closing event.

Antonio Vancheri: Electronic music DJ performing at Milan's "Are You Smarter than Me?" closing event.

Various Artists: The festival features numerous artists from around the world. The names of specific artists participating in each event can be found in the source materials.

FAQ

What is the CODAME ART+TECH Festival?

The CODAME ART+TECH Festival is a month-long celebration of art, technology, and human connection. It explores the intersection of these fields through immersive experiences and collaborative innovation. This year's festival, themed "Essence, ” delves into the core elements of human creativity.

Where and when is the festival taking place?

The festival occurs throughout October 2024 in Milan, Italy, and the San Francisco Bay Area, USA, with virtual events accessible worldwide. Specific dates and locations for each event can be found on the CODAME website.

What is the theme of this year's festival?

The 2024 festival theme is "Essence". This theme challenges participants to consider the fundamental elements of creativity, stripping away the superficial to reveal the core driving forces behind human expression and innovation.

What kind of events can I expect at the festival?

The festival offers a diverse program of events, including:

• Gallery Openings: Featuring live music and interactive experiences

• Playshops: Hands-on workshops where you can create, learn, and share

• Salons: Lively conversations and discussions around questions of "Essence"

• Experiential Dialogues: Interactive exercises and immersive experiences

• MatchBox: A platform connecting artists and technologists for collaboration

• BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer): Transforming spaces into immersive digital galleries

• Performances: Music, art, and interactive experiences

• Virtual Exhibition: A persistent 3D world accessible from any web browser

Who is the festival for?

The festival welcomes everyone! Whether you're a creator, curator, artist, technologist, or simply curious, there's something for you. The festival aims to connect individuals from diverse backgrounds, including creatives, technologists, artists, and innovators from around the globe.

Is the festival free?

Many CODAME ART+TECH Festival events are free to attend, and donations are welcome to support the artists and the non-profit organization. Some events, such as workshops, may have a nominal fee. Ticket information can be found on the CODAME website.

How can I get involved with the festival?

There are various ways to get involved:

• Attend events: Explore the schedule and find events that pique your interest.

• Volunteer: Lend your passion and contribute to bringing the festival to life.

• Become a Sponsor: Align your brand with creative innovation and support the festival.

• Spread the word: Share information about the festival with your network.

What is CODAME?

CODAME is a non-profit organization shaping the future through playful ART+TECH projects and inspiring experiences. It celebrates creativity through events, workshops, performances, and installations. Its annual ART+TECH Festival is the centerpiece of these efforts, with over 12 years of cultivated exploration and discovery. CODAME fosters a global community of more than 35,000 persons, including artists, technologists, designers, and leaders.

Connect, Create, and Celebrate

Artists are innovators and producers of creative and extraordinary ideas and visions. Experiencing art and artistic processes is an important opportunity for learning and exploration. Even more so, collaborative art is a transformational force to strengthen the community and enhance well-being. CODAME invites you to become an active participant at our Festival where you can connect, create, and celebrate with our Artists.

Register

When: December 11th — 19th, 2020

Where: Online & Physical (following local safety guidelines)

At the festival you will be:

• Connecting with the community, encouraging interactions and learning from each other;

• Creating tangible outcomes in collaboration, such as building art together, or creating a movement with people from different backgrounds and cultures;

• Celebrating artwork by sharing your creations;

Stay tuned for more updates on codame.com … or get yourself on a waiting list for ticket on festival.codame.com

///Call for Proposals

Submit your proposal for the CODAME ART+TECH Festival 2020! We’re excited to see projects that promote and encourage collaboration.

Deadline: Friday, November 1st, 2020 by 11:59 p.m (PT).

Complete Application must be submitted by filling this form:

Apply

Decisions will be announced by November 15th, 2020.

We are interested in a wide-range of collaborations, projects, and group configurations. For example, groups might work exclusively with each other on a project (e.g., collaboratively create a project showcased at the festival) or might facilitate events open for our entire art + tech community (e.g., roundtable or workshops).

You are welcome to build on ongoing work and existing collaborations. Projects should relate to art+tech this year’s theme of JOYNT: Connect, Create, Celebrate.

We hope you surprise us with the format of your projects (online or physical). Some things we have done in the past and know work well:

• Experimental, imaginative, and collaborative thinking, experiences;

• Performances;

• Discussion groups, roundtables, or conversations with collaborative actions as a result;

• Building partnerships or community across/beyond campus as liaison groups;

///Volunteers

We’re looking for outstanding volunteers to support our ART+TECH Festival.

It’s a fun and extremely rewarding experience as you learn new skills and pass your knowledge on to others. You’ll meet like-minded people, make friends and build a network of people from all backgrounds who share a common passion for ART+TECH.

Joyn us to be part of the magic! 

Joyn

///Partners & Sponsors

Join our list of amazing Sponsors. Be recognized as an innovative and visionary organization, partner with us.

Contact Us

CODAME is a member of Intersection for the Arts a non profit 501(c)(3) organization.

All proceeds will be split with the participating artists.

Thank you for your support for ART ♥️ TECH !!!

Code of Conduct for all attendees.

Originally published at https://codame.com.

A four day conference with workshops, talks and nightlife @ The Midway, San Francisco, June 4–7, 2018.

This year’s CODAME ART+TECH Festival, codenamed #ARTOBOTS, examines the ever expanding and ever more tangible sphere of robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence.

Automatons orchestrate much of our lives, from the artificial intelligences that translate our global conversations to the industrial robots that give us our digital toys. For many of us, this activity hums as background noise to our existence. Yet these processes in robotics, automation and artificial intelligence are already intimately entwined with our bodies and minds.

In the daily movements we make, the messages we send, and the sensations we experience, we already collaborate with these entities in increasingly varied, tactile and tangible ways. Bots mediate our relationships with ourselves, each other and our environments. While many of these interactions are familiar to us, there are myriad ways to move, think, sense and feel with our lively machines. Through art, discussion, play and performance, CODAME ART+TECH probes these potentials.

#Program

Workshops, Talks and Nightlife Performances and Installations.

This wide-ranging conference will bring artists, inventors, dancers, creative technologists, and other thought leaders together in conversation and exploration. By day, an interdisciplinary assemblage of innovators will give workshops and lectures on the field’s urgent questions and latest developments. By night, we will wander the imaginative terrain of interactive installations and performance. We will showcase ambitious explorations in the field of ART+TECH, from work imagining future machines to intelligent automations crafting masterpieces before your eyes.

• Day 1 & 2: June 4–5th — Workshops

• Day 3 & 4: June 6–7th — Workshops, Conference (Lectures/Talks/Panels) + Nightlife event featuring gallery installations and performances.

#Talks

Salon style conversations, lectures and panels, with top speakers in the art, robotics and human interaction industry.

• Ken Goldberg, artist and professor UC Berkeley. A pioneer in internet-based robotic telepresence and Cloud-Based Robotics /Automation.

• Alex Reben, artist and roboticist, exploring humanity through the lens of art and technology

• Piero Scaruffi, cultural historian who has lectured in three continents and published several books on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science.

• Meredith Tromble, artist and writer who has worked in “in-between” spaces throughout her career: mixing drawing, performance, and installation.

• Amy LaViers, assistant professor in the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and director of the Robotics, Automatic, and Dance (RAD) Lab.

• Jordan Gray & Cindy Clark presenting Matchy, a chatbot bringing the connect & collaborate ethos of CODAME to a global scale.

…More to be announced…

#Installations and Performances

Immersive, engaging, out of the ordinary experiences.

Robot Love Robot Hate by Mark Klink

• Robot Love Robot Hate by Mark Klink’s is a meditation on our hopes and fears about robots and other artificial beings, as reflected in popular media.

• Deep Dream Vision Quest, a psychedelic journey experience inside a neural network by Gary Boodhoo

• “The Soft Machine” by the pseudonymous artist Norma Jeane, is an installation built on the absent presence of ShyBot

• Illy Primitive Intelligence is a semi-intelligent system powered by Web Audio API and WebGL created by Yagiz Mungan

• Musical performance by Laetitia Sonami, groundbreaking sound artist, performer and researcher, known for developing innovative instruments

…more to be announced…

#Workshops

Building and exploring new media boundaries with artists, coders, designers, performers, musicians and other curious people like you.

Visual Strategies for Neural Artistic Style Transfer with Gary Boodhoo

• Visual Strategies for Neural Artistic Style Transfer with Gary Boodhoo

…more to be announced…

#Call for proposals

Our call for artists is still open…

Submit relevant artworks and talks for consideration. All mediums and formats accepted.

Codame Code of Conduct for all event attendees.

#Support

CODAME runs not for profit events as members of Intersection for the Arts a 501(c)(3) and all proceeds will be split with the participating artists.

There are many ways to support us:

• Get your tickets for the workshops, conference talks or nightlife event or get them, see you @ the midway in june!

• Invite your friends or your teammates

• Join us a volunteer, we always need one more hand

• Support ART+TECH and become a sponsor. Contact us.

Thank you for your support for ART ♥️ TECH !!!

#ARTEX @ Hotel Zetta

November 11, 2016

Join CODAME and explore Artificial Experiences with some of the most artistic, inspiring and visionary designers, engineers, architects, makers, hackers and technologists.

Artificial Experiences

As technology seeps into every second of our waking lives, what experiences from the digital realm are real and worthy of engagement? What moments spent in flesh are glossed over and abstracted, losing their authenticity? How do we assign value to experiences, inside and outside of our screens? How is that value reflected in the ways we work and play in San Francisco and other urban environments?

Where: Hotel Zetta, 55 5th Street in San Francisco, California

When: 11/11, 2016 from 6pm to 11:11:11

Tickets: Event profits support participating artists, in line with the CODAME mission of sustaining the arts.

Drinks: Cash bar. Ask for a special CODAME discount at the S&R Lounge.

Happening on November 11th at Hotel Zetta, Artificial Experiences will showcase some of the most artistic, inspiring and visionary designers, engineers, architects, makers, hackers and technologists.

“The Artificial Experiences event will take a closer look at how technology is seeping into every second of our waking lives ” said Bruno Fonzi, co-founder of CODAME. “On November 11th, we will bring together the digital explorers of our time to help us press pause on our digital and physical realms to consider how our connection to our screens are impacting us now and into the future.”

The evening will bring people together to mix with art, music and performances to ponder on technology as an extension of life.

“#ArtEx is a playful take on the question of how we assign value to experiences,” said Jordan Gray, CODAME co-founder and Curator. “We’re constantly balancing reality and fantasy as we navigate the world and our desires. #ArtEx is an acknowledgement and celebration of that head-space.”

Tickets are available for purchase for $25 per ticket. Event profits support participating artists, in line with the CODAME mission of sustaining the arts.

“Art and technology have always been interrelated, but now, thanks to organizations like CODAME, they are linked more than ever before.” said San Francisco based artist Marpi. “As technology evolves, I like to experiment, pushing the envelope. Artificial Experiences #ARTEX is the perfect platform for my latest exploration, Mass Migrations, built on WebGL and available also as a VR experience using WebVR.”

Program

What: Music, art installations and performances. Meet the artists and learn about their work:

• ModBod by CODAME Labs

• Illy by Yagiz Mungan

• Mass Migrations by Marpi

• DeepDreamVisionQuest by Gary Boodhoo

• A Flourish of Tiny Regrets by Bill Hsu

• Psychometric Cinema by Ultrabianka

• Cleverbot IRL by Wave Chair Ghost

• Refraction Spheres by Yanling He

• Internet of Consciousness by Elaine Cheung

• Recurrent by Joey Verbeke and Yagmur Uyanik

• Soft Landscapes by v21

• Motion Graphics by Erica Anderson et al.

• Inverse Dollhouse

• Permutation by Ahree Lee

• Around the Body by Philippe Jestin

• Holoshatter by Yosun and staRpauSe

• Music Performance by Real DJ Heroes

At 7:30pm there will be brief artist talks.

The event will feature a mixture of musicians, artists and performers. Including:

MODBOD by CODAME Labs

Full body scans for stylized identities. ModBod is a 3d scanning booth offering a unique and memorable experience. From house parties to conferences, no crowd is too big or small for capture fun. If you can hold a pose for a few minutes, ModBod will capture it forever!

ILLY by Yagiz Mungan

Illy is a Primitive Intelligence: a semi-intelligent system powered by Web Audio API and WebGL. It understands what it is spoken to in a primitive way and responds to us in a primitive, emotional and simple way both sonically and visually. As opposed to the cutting edge AIs and interfaces like Siri, Alexa, Cortana, OK Google, Illy does not understand natural language, defined commands or even language at all.

It does not respond using fine-tuned intonations to deliver the information gathered from the cloud, it is not integrated with any services. It does not show maps, or pictures about the topic. Instead, as an antithesis, it only tries to understand the sonic properties of the spoken language like the attack, loudness, roughness and pitch. And responds sonically, in a non-language, musical, psychoacoustical way: without the symbolic sounds that we call language but with tonal sounds, timbre, frequency, consonance and rhythm.

Visually, it shapes the visuals focusing on size, speed and color determined by its understanding and creating an abstract visual. Ignoring the symbolic data, like an infant, Primitive Intelligence tries to understand the emotion in the human voice — free from symbols of the language — and responds you with your emotions like sonic mirror to the soul. The interactive experience brings questions about human sound and human-machine interface that we sometimes ignore in this age of information.

MASS MIGRATIONS by Marpi

Massively Multiplayer Online Art. An experiment in mecha world creation. Build your custom robot for a generative music visualization. Create, adopt and set them free. Also eworks in VR, step inside the environment using WebVR, with an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. Available as a performance or installation.

DEEP DREAM VISION QUEST by Gary Boodhoo

Deep Dream Vision Quest performs continuous sequential Deep Dream processing on live video. Motion detection reduces the amount of data fed to the neural network. The machine dreams about whatever it last saw until something moves and a new picture arrives.

A FLOURISH OF TINY REGRETS by Bill Hsu

A Flourish of Tiny Regrets is an intimate interactive installation, pulling together a range of technologies to build an immersive experience.

A container of water becomes a touch-sensitive surface that displays a generative system; the technologies/environments involved include OpenFrameworks, OpenCL, Rafler’s smooth gliders algorithm, IRCAM’s CatArt concatenative synthesis system, and a Leap motion sensor.

The viewer sees a small circular body of water or other fluid, with leaves floating on the surface. When the viewer touches/draws on the fluid surface, small organic forms appear in the fluid and go through a series of complex and unpredictable transformations; a series of chirps and warbles appear to be voiced by the submerged creatures.

PSYCHOMETRIC CINEMA by Ultrabianka

Psychometric Cinema is a virtual situation, in which the connotative meaning of objects and events for humans are clearly visible for the naked eye. The work is based on Osgood’s semantic differential that describes individual connotations deriving individual attitudes.

INTERNET OF CONSCIOUSNESS by Elaine Cheung

The Internet of Consciousness explores the changing the landscape around altered consciousness and imagines a suite of products catered towards a user’s journey into Self. These wearables create experiences of integrating mind, body and spirit that are augmented into daily life through the designed wearable ecosystem, creating a new kind of altered experiential consciousness. It takes a self reflective, therapeutic approach to the pervasiveness of recreational and illicit drug culture in our society and reimagines technology of the body as physicalizing the hidden micro-expressions we carry and provoking us into new states of awareness.

RECURRENT by Joey Verbeke and Yagmur Uyanik

Recurrent investigates the way that light interfaces with itself and metal. According to Nikola Tesla, the sun is the past, the earth is the present, and the moon is the future. Recurrent consists of looped cycles of light reflections with different frequencies creating a recurring orbital mechanic.

SOFT LANDSCAPES by v21

A series of procedurally generated landscapes, appearing on Twitter every six hours. Built in Tracery and hosted on Cheap Bots, Done Quick!

MOTION GRAPHICS by Erica Anderson et al.

CODAME Featured Artists eye-dictive motion graphics on loop to set the ART+TECH mood in any environment. Featuring work from the world’s best along side up and coming creators. Selections for display on projector or TV can be themed for specific events ranging from edgy nightlife to classy corporate.

INVERSE DOLLHOUSE by Jasper Peterson and Dustin Freeman

Inverse Dollhouse takes the tender analog experience of building a environment for a doll, and makes that doll a real person. One player, in a VR headset, is the doll, and several players using a tablet can build a domestic environment around them. When players touch the tablet, their massive virtual hands appear above the doll.

ArtformAR by Ina Yosun Chang

Activated artwork gains digital depths when viewed through the application downloadable to any iOS or Android device.

Used by museums, hotels, architects, galleries, and individual artists to surprise and delight!

Cleverbot IRL by Wave Chair Ghost

Originally released in 1997, Cleverbot is one of the more well-known chat bots designed to be interacted with via text. It learns from its conversations with humans and strives to sound as human as possible in its responses. We want to allow people to have a conversation with Cleverbot, but instead of talking via type, they will have their conversation by talking with another person. A piece of hardware, such as a tablet, will use voice recognition to translate the event attendee’s voice into text, which will then be fed into a conversation with Cleverbot on the tablet. Cleverbot will respond, and a performer will read the response aloud to the attendee. When speaking with Cleverbot, there is a question of “Am I having a real conversation?” that comes up. The more that Cleverbot sounds human, the more blurred the answer to this is. We feel that having a conversation with Cleverbot via human will push people into an uncomfortable “Uncanny Valley” type situation that will make them question the reality of their situation. Is a conversation as a bot as valuable as one with a human even if the same words are exchanged? Who are they talking with? Does having a human “perform” Cleverbot change the experience of the conversation? Why? We hope to bring these questions to the forefront of people’s consciousness, and have them really think about what makes a conversation real.

Refraction Spheres by Yanling He

Refraction is a computer graphics project using ray tracing to simulate reflection and refraction effect. It simulates the effect of looking through a transparent ball to see the flower, nature, people, city and world, which is hard to be captured in our real world. It is also about the distortion of beauty and reality in different people’s eyes.

PERMUTATION by Ahree Lee

“Permutation” is a generative video installation that explores the paradox of similarity and difference. A computer algorithm dynamically remixes still portrait photos into an ever-changing, fragmentary video portrait. The algorithm takes 5–6 photos at random and simultaneously displays a vertical section of each that moves across the screen to generate an image that is constantly evolving and never the same.

HOLOSHATTER by Ina Yosun Chang and Jordan Gray

Selfie culture floods us with a never ending stream of egos. Those curated artifacts are not us, but mirror some part of us. HoloShatter offers an opportunity to unpack that facade.

Using a tap gesture, human forms are placed in holographic space, integrated with the real world. Models can be viewed from any angle by physically moving around them. Another tap will shatter the bodies into cybernetic shards.

This is event is possible thanks to your donations, volunteers and our supporters: Organic Inc, Hotel Zetta and Capital One.

“Capital One worked together with CODAME to support Artificial Experiences because we are big believers of the positive impacts of immersive technologies,” said Apurva Shah, head of creative technology at Capital One. “The group of artists CODAME has put together to explore how our immersion in technology is changing our lives will leave attendees with new thoughts about our future lives in digital and physical form.”

See you Friday, November 11th at Hotel Zetta for some Artificial Experiences.

Presenting our Annual CODAME Festival, a Two-day Event on October 23rd + 24th!

Exploring the immersive landscape of MOVEMENT, CODAME will be showcasing new works that demonstrate the fusion of art and technology from new and exciting angles within our festival’s theme including innovative dance compositions, mind-bending performances, immersive and interactive installations, generative art, new media, and concept pieces by local, national, and international artists.

All proceeds from this event will be split with participating artists.

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We bring together these independent artists, inviting all to join us in celebrating Art and Technology!

Local and Collaborating Artists include: Kinetech Arts, Paul Ackerman, Saturn Rising, Marpi, Zoey Vero, Zen Cohen, Colton Long, Katherine Frazer and Xiaohan Zhang, Sustainable Magic, Idyll Collective, Rachel Rose Ulgado + Aaron Waterhouse, Christopher Shaw, Matthew Howell, Donald Hason, Raquel Boluda, Jeffrey Yip, Zach Vorhies, Jeffrey Bryant, Jasper Patterson, staRpauSe, Total Unicorn, Foxxy Newport, Anticlockwise Arts, and more!

National Artists include: Kate Sicchio (NYC) and Leon Eckert (NYC)

International Artists include: Natasha Singh (India), Alex Andre (Paris France), and Robert Allison (UK)

Learn more about the CODAME Featured Artists on http://codame.com/artists

Questions we asked the artists are: As technology is rapidly evolving around us, how does this affect our physical and emotional lives? How can we move with machines, and how do machines move with us? How can we continue to engage with each other and our environment actively in a digital world that seems to be making us increasingly more sedentary? How can we break out of our screens into multiple dimensions, using the new tools that technology can provide for us?

Date: RSVP for any of the two days, Friday 23th or Saturday 24th October, 7pm — midnight

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Venue: Monument Located in the pulsing vein of San Francisco at 140 9th Street, Monument is a newly opened and renovated space.

Dress code: It’s close to Halloween! It’s your opportunity to wear that art+tech outfit tonight! Costume or not, do come and enjoy!

Full Schedule:

Friday 10/23: Festival Launch: 7pm-12am Performance Lineup:

• Jasper Patterson

• Kinetech Arts

• Raquel Boluda

• Kate Sicchio

• Matthew Jones

• Zach Vorhies

• Christopher Shaw

• Paul Ackerman

Saturday 10/24

Special Yoga Workshop with Showga: 6pm-7pm (prior doors open for the Festival)

• An opportunity to explore the healing dimensions of movement and music and how they interact. Participants will be guided through yoga postures and visualization exercises while live music is performed.

Night Festival: 7pm-12am Performance Lineup:

• Kate Sicchio

• Ian Heisters

• Micheal Garrigues

• Zoey Vero, Zen Cohen + Colton Long

• Saturn Rising w/Robert Allison

• Paul Ackerman

• Zach Vorhies

• Total Unicorn

Motion graphic used in the flier is courtesy of JL Design & KORB.