Bow Skills workshop: an intro to creative coding and customising your website with Rifke Sadleir
Wednesday 23rd October 2024 , 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Explore the playful art-making and aesthetic possibilities of creative coding and website customisation in this introductory workshop with coder, web designer, and creative technologist Rifke Sadleir.
Curious about creative coding and how to use digital elements and computational graphics to enhance the design of your artist website?
In this playful and low-stakes introductory workshop, Rifke Sadleir will give us a 101 on the basics of creative coding and experimentation, enabling you to build your confidence in programming languages and start to think through their possibilities in modifying and adding your mark on your artist website.
Rifke will kick things off with a run through of the p5.js coding framework – a creative coding language which artists can use to code, without the need for downloading new programmes or any prior knowledge of coding more broadly. She will then walk us through a code along in which we will explore how to create simple digital activations to enhance the user experience of a website or online space.
This workshop is interactive and will enable you to practically explore the possibilities of p5.js to create animations and interactions, in a supportive environment with other artists.
Things to bring with you:
A laptop or device which connects to the internet
What you will gain:
- A basic understanding of creative coding and its possibilities for website customisation
- Practical experience with p5.js and some of its capabilities for artists
- The skills to create a simple animation or digital activation for your website
- The opportunity to connect with other artists and partitioners
Concession rate applies to students, over 65s, under 18s, Bow Arts artists, National Art Pass members, and key workers
More about Rifke Sadleir
Rifke is a creative technologist and educator based in London, UK. She works across the mediums of code, hardware and visual design and collaborates with clients across the arts, charity, fashion and tech industries. As well as this, Rifke spends some of her time lecturing and facilitating workshops for design students and other creatives with the aim of making the tech industry feel more inviting and inclusive and less serious.
About Bow Skills
Bow Arts seeks to support creative professionals at all stages of their careers. In 2015 Bow Arts launched Bow Skills in response to an artist survey which showed over 90% of practicing artists find it useful to receive further support outside formal education.
Bow Skills is a dynamic and relevant programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) which is informed by an artist steering group and open to all creative practitioners across London. The programme of talks, panel discussions, new skills labs and peer crits is open to all, with concession rates available to students, over 65s, under 18s, Bow Arts artists and key workers.
Access information
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3)
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Opening hours: Mon-Friday, 9am to 5pm
Address: Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
