Creative coding or serious engineering: why not both?
by Stephen Buchanan
Creative Technologist: a hybrid engineer/artist making interactive installations, exhibitions, generative performances and more. Behind all this: hacky spaghetti code or sophisticated integration of software and hardware? Turns out, Rust might be the perfect tool for such idiosyncratic developers!
Speaker
Stephen Buchanan
Stephen Buchanan studied Television Journalism and Media Studies and somehow also Computer Science. After working as a video editor and motion graphics designer for many years, he turned to event production technology and eventually full-time into web, games and interactive installation development. With a background in Java, C++ and TypeScript, his attentions have turned to Rust in the last 4 years, finding it surprisingly fitting for an industry more known for creative hacking than precision and high performance programming. Stephen is currently a senior “Creative Technologist” at Random Studio, an experience design agency based in Amsterdam and Paris.