Please propose narrative, performance, and visual art about programming to my festival!

[brainwane]

On May 3rd, 2019, two friends and I are hosting "The Art of Python", a miniature arts festival at PyCon North America 2019 (Cleveland, Ohio), focusing on narrative, performance, and visual art. We intend to encourage and showcase novel art that helps us share our emotionally charged experiences of programming, particularly in Python. We hope that by attending, our audience will discover new aspects of empathy and rapport, and find a different kind of delight and perspective than might otherwise be expected at a large conference.

There's more about this at my co-organizer Erty Seidohl's blog post, including an invitation to also propose your "not-talks" to !!Con.

In short, we are interested in how fictional narrative, visual and performance art, and different presentation formats can make different kinds of teaching and representation possible.

"The Art of Python" is seeking your proposals now and the deadline for submissions is 28 February. And if you've never written a play and want guidance so you can write your first, we'll have a guide up on 1 February to help you!

Thanks to Erty and to Brendan Adkins for co-organizing "The Art of Python" with me! Thanks to PyCon's Hatchery program for new PyCon events, which makes this festival possible! Thanks to Jackie Kazil for the festival name! (My codename was "Spectacle!" which is probably misleading and less accessible.)

Comments

[lindseykuper]

This is so cool! I didn't realize that the !!Con part of this was coming (as you probably already know, I'm taking a break from !!Con proper to focus on !!Con West), and I'm stoked about an expanded !!Con aesthetic.


One thing I'm a bit confused about is what's in scope. The call for submissions starts out with "narrative, performance, and visual art", but later on you say that the format will be "a series of plays and other performances", and at one point you even call it a "play festival". So it sounds like this is not really a venue for visual art that doesn't have a performance component. Is that true?