Lovelace's Legacy: Creative Algorithmic Interventions for Live Performance
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Abstract
We describe a series of informal exercises in which we have put algorithms in the hands of human performers in order to encourage a human creative response to mathematical and algorithmic input. These 'interventions' include a web-based app, experiments in physical space using Arduinos, and algorithmic augmentation of a keyboard.
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DOI:10.1145/3243274
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