LO 08 – The Creative Practice of an Individual

Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo

Sarah Groff Hennigh- Palermo is an artist, programmer, and data designer who explores the relationship between technology and information by creating work focused on an “aesthetic exploration of experience” (Hennigh-Palermo) rather than an information-instrumental output of data. Her talk centered on undermining computers—how can make computers less “machine-like” and more accessible, visceral, and contextual? Her piece Oublié/trouvé, or: Towards a Theory of Invested Objects is an app and product that visualizes data based on your feelings and experiences (temperature, proximity from home, humidity, weather, etc) at a specific moment or location as an attempt to implement the personal into the machine. She then developed LiveCode, a communal computing experience of visuals, music, dance, and games with code written and evaluated in real time. She is also a part of an algorithmic band called Codie, which codes live music and visuals at each performance, which I thought was pretty cool.