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The International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC) is dedicated to practices and research focused on technologies and philosophies that interpret the use of computer code and the public writing of algorithms as performative gestures. In its previous editions the community has provided valuable insights on this practice from diverse perspectives, including artistic, technical, artistic, philosophical, educational, social and political.

It has been ten years since the first ICLC call for participation, which proposed “[…] exploring liveness in symbolic abstractions, and understanding the perceptual, creative, productive, philosophical and cultural consequences.” In the subsequent decade, we have collectively and collaboratively experimented with varying levels of live coding abstraction, developed domain-specific languages, and explored the levels of agency offered by models created manually, or sometimes with the assistance of learning algorithms. We have invented and played with numerous interfaces to interact with algorithms and the world around us during performances. These explorations revolve around defining what processes we actually want to showcase, and in which formats we want to express them, while “thinking algorithmically” with an audience.

On this, the 9th edition of the conference, we invite the community to reflect about liveness and its many forms and consequences within live coding. We believe the tension between what is live and what is not is a key element of live coding. What effects does it have on the processes, technologies and forms in the performance? How do the many forms of liveness impact and transform the hybridization between the digital/algorithmic and the material? How does liveness relate to and/or define the socio-cultural aspects of live coding communities?

Please visit https://iclc.toplap.org/2025/ for the full details of the call, including important dates and the required submission templates. 

The submission form will be opened shortly.