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Join us in the metaverse for a diverse lineup of international live coding artists at the ATEM BIENNIAL.
Friday, 28.11.2025
19:30 – 22:30 (CET) – watch in the ATEM HyperCube
| TIME | ARTISTS |
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| 19:30 |
Niklas Reppel (ES)
Niklas Reppel (born 1983 in Witten, Germany) is a live coder, sound artist, composer, musician, and a committed eclecticist. He’s been living in Barcelona since 2017, where he found a home in the local TOPLAP community. He performs nationally and internationally, mostly (but not always) as a live coder, using homemade software that over time became a little live coding galaxy within the larger live coding universe. His work flows seamlessly between various styles of electronic music and sound art.
Two major pillars of his work are improvisation and a DIY approach to things, whether it’s live coding languages or multichannel loudspeaker setups. |
| 20:00 |
Benoît and the Mandelbrots (LV/CO/DE/EN)
Benoît and the Mandelbrots see the laptop as their main instrument; they are mainly dedicated to live coding. They use the programming language itself as an at first sight non-intuitive, but simultaneously expressive interface between man and machine in order to improvise sound and music.
The musical results vary from electronica and ambient to experimental, noise, drones and avant-garde depending on the event, audience, venue and course of the collective improvisation. |
| 21:00 |
alsoknownasrox (US)
Roxanne Harris “alsoknownasrox” is a new media artist-researcher and musician-programmer based in Los Angeles. Embracing programming as an artistic medium, she parameterizes on-the-fly, pushing the boundaries of improvisational dexterity within computational limitations. Her work invites audiences to engage
the creative process as it unfolds, embracing vulnerability and exploring speculative futures through algorithmic transparency. |
| 21:30 |
Alexandra Cardenas (CO/DE)
Alexandra Cardenas is a live-coding artist, composer, and educator based in Berlin. She works with algorithmic sound and code-based musical systems, shaping performances through improvisation with SuperCollider and TidalCycles.
During the pandemic, she collaborated with TOPLAP Mexico, TOPLAP Berlin, UXR Zone, and others, keeping the live-coding and algorave scene active through online gatherings, festivals, and metaverse events.
She holds a Master’s degree in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts from the University of the Arts Berlin. Her work focuses on expanding access to creative coding, supporting open-source culture, and building spaces where code becomes a tool for artistic expression and collective imagination.
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| 22:00 |
nesso (IT/DE)
Somewhere between computer music, deconstructed club, algorave, and post-internet art, nesso has been carefully shaping a signature style built on twisted rhythms, abrasive textures, and hyperactive visuals. Whether released on Superpang, Gin&Platonic, Kaer Uiks, or Heel.zone, his music offers an unpredictable take on club music, influenced by his work as a live coder and sound hacker.
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Saturday, 29.11.2025
16:00 – 17:00 (CET) – watch in the ATEM HyperLab
| TIME | ARTISTS |
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| 16:00 |
Matthias Nowakowski (DE)
Matthias Nowakowski works in human–computer interaction and music notation, focusing on how digital tools support creative and professional workflows which is an area that forms the core of his ongoing dissertation in music informatics. As the leader of TOPLAP Detmold, he helps maintain and grow the regional live-coding scene, particularly among students and researchers at the University of Applied Sciences OWL and the Detmold University of Music. In his current role at the KreativInstitut.OWL, a department of the University of Paderborn, he examines opera production processes and their digital transformation, while also contributing as a software developer.
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| 16:30 |
Damian T. Dziwis & Markus van Well (DE)
Damian T. Dziwis is a media artist and researcher from Düsseldorf, Germany. He creates audiovisual works using machine learning, generative algorithms, live coding, spatial audio, and virtual environments. Damian received his B. Eng. in Media Technology in 2015 and his M. Mus. in Electronic Composition in 2017. Since 2017, he has been a Ph.D. candidate at the TU Berlin and the TH Cologne. From 2023 to 2025, he was a visiting professor at Detmold University of Music’s Department of Composition and Sound Design. He has shown his performances and installations at international festivals like MUTEK Montreal, CMT Festival Berlin, and “The Wrong Biennale.” He has been an artist in residence at the Zurich University of the Arts, at ZKM Karlsruhe, and at Onland.io Loop. He has also participated in various art labs at international festivals like Ars Electronica, Amaze., and Gamma Festival. He founded the live coding collective TOPLAP Detmold and is artistic director of the upcoming festival “ATEM Biennial – Alternative Thoughts on the Emerging Metaverse.” In 2021, the German Informatics Society nominated him for the AI Newcomer Award.
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19:30 – 22:00 (CET) – watch in the ATEM HyperCube
| TIME | ARTISTS |
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| 19:30 |
Roger Pibernat (ES)
llustrator, animator, livecoder for music and visuals, and — sometimes — poet. I have been member of the Barcelona Laptop Orchestra and I am co-founder of the collectives Wú and Axolot. As a live coder I’ve developed Živa and contributed to TidalCycles with Superfm. I am also the co-developer of Animatron, a tool to collectively improvise 2D animation collages in live performances, which I use in my own projects, as well as in collaboration with artists from many other disciplines.
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| 20:00 |
Timo Hoogland (NL)
Timo Hoogland is a computational artist, live coder, music technologist and educator from the Netherlands. He livecodes algorithmic electronic dance music with the human-readable language Mercury and develops generative audiovisual compositions and installations. He teaches at the University of the Arts Utrecht.
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| 20:30 |
Flor de Fuego (AR/DE)
Flor de Fuego is a digital-craft artist who primarily works with programming and live coding to create performative experiences. Her research explores concepts such as the body, space, code, and the chaos-cosmos. She has participated in several international festivals across Europe and the Americas, both individually and in collaboration with other artists. Flor is actively involved in the live coding community. She is an active community collaborator for Hydra, a live coding browser-based software developed by Olivia Jack.
Flor is an alumni from the Akademie für Theater und Digitalität and part of Koproduktionslabor team, an artistic media lab that works in co-production with artists and the Akademie as well as KiU Lab from Dortmunder U (Dortmund, Germany).
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| 21:00 |
CNDSD (Malitzin Cortés) (MX)
CNDSD / Malitzin Cortés is a musician, programmer, speculative architect, and creative technologist. Her practice explores sound and space as living matter for imagining possible worlds, where code, animation, and digital immersion operate as devices of thought and affect. Through performances, audiovisual works, and algorithmic environments, she investigates dark ecology, climate change, and planetary interdependence. She is a lecturer and researcher at CENTRO and CMMAS. Her work has been presented at Ars Electronica,Sonar, ZKM, MUTEK, CTM Vorspiel, and ADAF, and received the Lumen Prize Gold Award 2023 and the Latin American Virtual Reality Award, Real Mix.
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| 21:30 |
Char Stiles (US)
Char Stiles is a computational artist, educator, and researcher. She works creatively in the lower levels of graphical computational systems & makes jokes about how computers work. She is currently an affiliate at the MIT Media Lab’s Future Sketches group researching the future of creative coding in performance. She is a part of the Livecode.nyc collective & she co-founded Hex House, an artist studio and event space in East Williamsburg. She has performed internationally, including festivals such as Electric Forest, Portola, and Mutek Nexus. She has lectured and led workshops at Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University, University of Limerick, MIT, and NYU.
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Sunday, 30.11.2025
17:00 – 20:00 (CET) – watch in the ATEM HyperLab
CLOSING EVENT
Participants from ArtLabs in Detmold and Düsseldorf showcase the projects they developed during the workshops.