ART+TECH Aperitivo ✦ 3 - The New Human (Bodies in Transformation)
Exploring The New Human with Vanessa Chang — CODAME ART+TECH (2026) Creative Hackathon Mentor
When: January 28, 2025 | 18:00–19:15 (CET) - 09:00–10:15 (PST)
Where: Online
Join CODAME for an evening that blurs boundaries between art, code, and consciousness. Born in San Francisco’s creative tech scene, CODAME now bridges to Milan — linking makers, dreamers, and technologists across continents.
Our 3rd Aperitivo gathering, this time online, as part of the CODAME ART+TECH Festival (2026) that includes the Creative Hackathon in 2026, where we’ll build and imagine together what it means to be human in the age of collective intelligence in the future(s)
Schedule
Introduction Bruno Fonzi + Jordan Gray (CODAME co-founders)
✦ The New Human theme for the ART+TECH Festival
✦ How to sign up for the the Creative Hackathon
✦ The ART+TECH Festival Program
Meet Vanessa Chang mentor of CODAME (2026) Creative Hackathon
✦ Past
The hand as interface; mechanical reproduction & the ghost-body in early machines✦ Present
Disembodied myths vs rooted, lived bodies; Phones, playlists, AR, AI assistants✦ Futures
Designing for difference and disability; Building infrastructures of care; Collective agency in shaping technological worlds
Q&A
Invitation to participate in The New Human Creative Hackathon: “A playground for artists, technologists, and designers to prototype human–machine futures during Milan Design Week 2026.”
Speakers
The network of creative coders, designers, and artists that co-founders Bruno Fonzi and Jordan Gray cultivated from around the world sparked CODAME’s mission to passionately celebrate the fusion of art and technology. Since the inaugural CODAME ART+TECH Festival in 2010, held on a foggy rooftop in downtown San Francisco, their vision has inspired a brand of immersive, engaging, and out-of-the-ordinary experiences that continue to connect and empower creative communities globally.
Vanessa Chang is a writer, scholar, curator, and educator who builds communities and conversations about our virtual and physical encounters with media and technology.
Vanessa Chang builds communities and conversations about art, technology, people, and planet. She writes, curates, and teaches about new and old media, the history and philosophy of technology, design, disability and creative access, cities, comics, animation, circuses, and more.
Reserve your place and join the experiment in co-creation. Experience the distributed mind in action.
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Sorry to miss this! Will anything be recorded that we can watch later? Much thanks Codame team! -Rolf