When coding shows up in the curriculum of a liberal arts program, its primary purpose is usually pretty obvious: help students get hired. These efforts are often described as attempts to “help ...

Lauren McCarthy wanted to bring coding and activism together in a way that is interactive and accessible. To do so, she worked with Xin Xin, the director and lead organizer of Processing Community Day ...

Computer programming has taken on a new dimension as a radical art form. Programming plays a huge role in the world that surrounds us, and though its uses are often purely functional, there is a ...

Art and code are convening this weekend for Processing Community Day. The international event is being celebrated on Saturday, Feb. 9, with community events around the world. The focus of the day is ...

What do a coding boot camp founded by two college dropouts and a small liberal arts college founded in 1890 have in common? Quite a lot, it turns out. Make School and the Dominican University of ...

The seemingly opposite worlds of art and computer science collide as bright LEDs, microcontrollers, and other art structures culminate in a final creative project. In movements guided by creative ...

Despite its diminished status in nearly every area of life, art—writ large—is still the highest measure of achievement, the most superlative of compliments. The “art” label is appended to show that a ...

In the latest installment of its Off Book web series, PBS explores the ways in which coding can be used artistically, and displays some of the amazing art that has been created using software such as ...

A long time ago, after one stultifying conversation too many, I worked out a definition of "art" that I've stuck with ever since. Art, I maintain, consists of expressing as much as possible within the ...