I'm mostly not here these days. Follow me on insta @dea.x.machina www.instagram.com/dea.x.machina/ if you'd like to stay in touch ☺️

Glad I did #genuary even if I only completed 10 prompts. Between that & learning TouchDesigner, I've began to recover some of my creative energy✨ I'm not very active here these days but if you want to see more of my art/learning journey, will be @ dea.x.machina on IG www.instagram.com/dea.x.machina/

Next Thursday in Hackney Wick London! Our final event for the year @cccraftsspace.bsky.social 💖🎟️ luma.com/pbd0aa61

I attended Savannah's workshop at Peckham Digital last month and it was hands down the most fun & accessible TouchDesigner workshop I've been to; it's finally given me the motivation to try and dig into this monster 😅 It's our last event in London for the year and I'd love to see many of you there!

<1 week till Peckham Digital 🫰 I'm doing a workshop on Sat (18th) on drawing live sketches with your face & body w/ p5.js and ml5.js; in lieu of doing something with c3s this month~. Would love to see you around at the fest 💜 (or workshop -> www.peckhamdigital.org/events/2025/...)

London's biggest creative computing event, Peckham Digital, is happening next week and we're beyond excited for it✨ c3s will be there + Dea is running a workshop called "Drawing sketches on a Canvas with your body (ft. p5.js & ml5.js)" 🗓️ Sat 18th 🕜 1:30pm - 3:00pm 📍 Social, SE15 3SN 👇 Below for 🎟️

✨ c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social next event with 4 very special guests from London's thriving live coding scene. Come & learn how to create live audio visuals with beginner-friendly langs 🪩Hydra + 🎵Strudel. ✨ 🗓️ Sat, 30 Aug 🕑 2pm ~ 📍The Cave, HW, London 🎫 tickets on luma~ lu.ma/9kf45v58?tk=...

📢 c3s: Creative Coding Crafts Space meetup #7: Wired Connections Next event is up! Learn about e-textiles and leave with your own LED gloves! Spaces are limited-hope to see you there 💫 📍 UCL Sainsbury Wellcome Centre 🗓️ Sun, Jul 27th, 2~5pm 🎟️ tickets & details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-c...

Quietly rolling out a completely redone portfolio website. Featuring: no longer having to use node 14 to get it to work! Also Svelte 5. And a CMS replacing a very large projects.json - I feel so mature now. ✨✨✨ www.deabankova.com ✨✨✨

🔊Happening next Sat! c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social next meetup!! We'll try to animate anything (bring your own website kinda thing) with GSAP 💚 🗓️ Sat 7 June, 2pm~ 📍The Cave, LDN 🎫 lu.ma/ugcoydkj (I think it's actually gonna rain, let'd huddle together indoors for some cosy-but-not-vibe coding 👾)

State of the art AI 8 years ago

It always struck me (and everyone else) as odd that J. K. Rowling chose to call the Bulgarian character of HP Viktor Krum. Let's dissect that a bit. These are two first names, a basically impossible combo in Bulgarian. We've got a gendered language, in fact a highly gendered one. 1/

I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community. We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect? Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.

Black Mirror s7 ep1. Is this the world that we want?

We had a wonderfully weird Saturday last week at c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social , where two special guests from Quantum Village talked about quantum computing in the arts, from history to hands-on frameworks. 👾 I wouldn’t even have imagined we’d host such an event when I first conceived of c3s 🫰

Kurt Vonnegut man

individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto alienmelon.itch.io/shovelware "This is an interactive-essay-meets-walking-sim about technocapitalism and the things we lost along the way." 🦴💕✨🐛💥 #GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #IndieGameDev #LiminalSpace

In all the discourse on AI vs software eng, I keep seeing variations on the same: 'AI can't do scalable, secure code and that's what devs do'. I'd love to see more on the creativity of writing code, grounding it in being human and real-world experiences. I don't think devs are scalability machines.

📢 Reminder: Next c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social meetup is 🗓️ Sat 5th April @ The Cave in London, 🕑 2pm~ 🎫 Grab your tickets here: lu.ma/2bvp84e5 🎫 We're super excited about this one! ✨✨✨

It's been over 3 years since we got the masterpiece that is 'Twenty-five twenty-one' and really what has been going since then? ☠️ Did we reach peak k-drama in 2022? I really want to watch something good again, like actually good. Not 'When the stars gossip', what was that even.. 😵

Next meetup is up 👾!! We'll be at the Cave (London) again 🕑 2pm~ on 🗓️ Sat 5th April Regulars Victoria and Mark will talk about some cutting edge uses of quantum computing in the arts, including showing us quantum-infused musical instruments. 🎹. We are so excited about this one~ lu.ma/2bvp84e5

Bookclub is going strong + they have a lovely new venue!

c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social finally has a website, after months of iterating on.. dragonflies ✨ . 🔗 creativecodingcrafts.space But seriously, it was greatly enjoyable putting this together, changing the layout, colours, effects and animations a dozen times until I was happy. [cross-post]

After ep 7 of Severance and binging season 2 of Pantheon, I have to declare this week my best week of sci-fi for years. What a ride. Where do I get more 😳

From the last c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social meetup on Sat; love how the light makes me look like a mythical creature 😆 Next event will be about quantum in the arts (yeah, casual stuff) + we've got some other really cool potential speakers. Love to see this space growing, thank you all for coming 💜

Happening this Saturday in London. Unreasonably long tutorial is ready~ 👾

Despairing over my Mac screen being toast after my cat🐈‍⬛ bit a corner and left a tiny tent that disturbed many lines of pixels, which now flicker constantly... finding solace on reddit where *multiple* people on one thread have had the exact same issue 🥲

"Tomorrow and I" turned out to be one of the best sci-fi's I've seen. I never use the over-used words 'thought provoking' but can't think of a better way to describe it. Not like anything else I've seen; that final ep left me with all sorts of feelings. Think about what tomorrow has to be for 'you'

#CreativeCodingBookclub is meeting again on Wednesday 26th February! All the info here: lu.ma/h3j0pku4 We will work on Chapter 0: Randomness of The Nature of Code by @shiffman.lol Join @cccraftsspace.bsky.social Discord server if you want to share your work or ask questions: discord.gg/NRssnKnx

This one will be more of a ‘let’s learn together’ chill session, and led just by me. I started experimenting with Three.js again recently, after not getting the chance to look at it for over a year, and am excited to share what I’ve learnt and create more fun stuff with you 👾✨

Two of the loves of my life 💛🖤🫰

Here's one more of the pen plotter in action 😂

✨Meetup #3 for c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social last Saturday. So lovely to see people turn up, engage, create and laugh together. Our first guest speakers @ajith.is and @wherepritiis.bsky.social put in so much effort, it felt like a professional conference. Thank you so much, see you next time! <3

🔊 New piece on cozy games! 🎊 Possibly winning the title of my fave piece at Reuters to have worked on. Brilliant team, thank you so much for letting me be your code monkey 😭 Now go play the game & be cozy! And please plant a catcus because these creatures warm my soul. ✨ Here is my cosy garden ✨

📢 First c3s event for the year! ✨ We're back in 📍London, Hackney Wick on 🗓️ Sat 25th Jan. This time we have very special guests who will guide us through algorithmic drawing of some classic gen art pieces and will bring along a real pen plotter to try out! 💛💚💙

Our last two 📊 Q&A with an Expert seminars are now up on YT! Be sure to check them out because they were absolute bangers. December feat. @deabankova.bsky.social: shorturl.at/M5tls January feat. @allitorban.bsky.social: shorturl.at/vfsTl And follow @datavizsociety.bsky.social for more events!

Finally got round to making our c3s bsky account a bit less sparse 😅. Can't promise I'll post much from it but super excited what the next year has in store for us at Creative Coding Crafts Space. First 2 meetups have been a blast, people are so nice and so creative :)

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And I read Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow + Blood, sweat and pixels in a couple weeks. And now getting addicted to Neko atsume. Not bad for a non-gamer eh 😂

Came back after ~20 days off after a mad US election heavy dev year, convinced I won't be able to pick up code again, that I'd forgotten. And yet I find myself working just fine on a piece that I'm so excited about and can't wait to be published.. All is good (with that little corner of my life)

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Data art name+birth month generative flowers in Canvas and p5 for our meetup yesterday at @cccraftsspace.bsky.social We used this OpenProcessing notebook 📓https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2466800 Not the cleanest code if you weren't there but should be a start! #creativecoding #p5js #dataart

Thanks @pkddapacific.bsky.social for co-running this with me! It's so great to meet and talk to many of you who feel similarly about the possibilities for code to be a creative communal activity. I didn't know if this would go anywhere, but at event #2, I feel encouraged to continue! ⭐️

👋 Hi! I'm Dea and I'm a creative developer working as a data viz dev at Reuters Graphics in London. I love tinkering with frameworks & tools like p5, d3, three.js etc. to make data art/viz & all sorts. Posting abt/following viz, art, gen art & the scenes thereof in UK and Japan. 💫 deabankova.com