Live Coding Sessions #9
This edition of Live Coding Sessions dives into embodiment, we explore how the body can become an active, expressive force in live coding. Transforming movement, gesture, and physical presence into sound, visuals, and creative possibilities. The body not just as a tool but as a collaborator, shaping the performance through wearables, motion, and audience interaction.
We’re excited to announce a line-up of Marije Baalman, Hay Kranen, Frank Bosma, Amit Palgi and Joyce den Hertog. Marije works with custom wearable systems that translate movement into live-coded sound and visuals, positioning the body as an active force within the performance. Hay and Frank approach embodiment through remix and participation: from live-coded sets built from dancing bodies to interactive 3D environments where the audience helps choreograph avatars in motion. Amit and Joyce will share the True-ing Test, a research project that investigates body intentionality in AI. By comparing human and AI-generated somatic dance responses, they explore intuition, creativity, and how bodies communicate meaning beyond language.
‣ Pre-sale €10,- (incl. service costs)
‣ Students €7,50 (incl. service costs)
‣ Limited amount of door tickets available for €12,-
‣ Doors: 19:30
‣ Start: 20:00
‣ End: 22:00
Venue: Doka Amsterdam / Volkshotel
Wibautstraat 150, 1091 GR Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Live Coding Sessions is kindly supported by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK), and Volkshotel Amsterdam.
Line up
Marije Baalman is an Amsterdam-based artist and researcher working with interactive sound, light, and performance systems. Using physical computing, wireless systems, and live coding, she creates environments in which performers, audiences, and surroundings actively shape the sonic and visual outcomes.
For this embodiment edition, Baalman presents work with custom wearable systems that translate movement into live-coded sonic and visual behaviours—foregrounding the body as an active agent within technological performance.
Hay Kranen (Nijmegen, 1983) has been building digital things on the thin line between art, technology, data, narrative and media since 1998. He has done this for a wide range of organizations, both employed and on a freelance basis. Since 2021 he has been a part of audio collective De merel uit de machine, an audio collective making generative audio installations for festivals such as IDFA Doclab, Cinekid and NFF. He has been live coding since the pandemic. He wrote his own live coding environment, called vchunker, focusing on manipulating video and audio at the same time.
Frank Bosma is a creative developer connecting people with purpose through playful immersive experiences, whether that’s online or offline. From sites to apps and Augmented Reality to Virtual Reality, if it has an API he’ll give it a go. With a love for music, dancing, coding and 3D environments, Frank will create 3D scenes with live audience input.
Amit Palgi and Joyce den Hertog present the True-ing Test, an artistic research project exploring body intentionality in AI. Inspired by the Turing Test, the True-ing Test compares human and AI-generated somatic dance responses, examining intuition, creativity, and how bodies communicate meaning beyond language.
Amit Palgi - A choreographer and dance artist whose interdisciplinary practice mixes somatic dance with immersive technology
Joyce den Hertog – A creative coder, technologist, and maker who applies technical knowledge for artistic purposes in dance and theatre.