How can maintaining an open source project contribute to an artist’s art practice? How can an artist’s art practice productively guide the design and development of an open source project?

This talk will be about the synergies between maintaining the creative coding library py5 and my career as an artist. Both originated at the same time, and since the beginning, they have contributed to and guided each other’s evolution and growth. They are intimately connected and forever intertwined.

I’ll discuss these connections with specific coding examples and show how I designed py5 to enable me to do everything from exploring and prototyping ideas to creating large scale digital animations. I’ll also talk about what I see for the future of py5, where I want to go as an artist, and how both of these will continue to support each other and result in more creative coding contributions to share with the open source community.