What Alex has created in the Algorave movement is quite remarkable.\u00a0 \u00a0He’s ‘cracked the code’ [literally] of how to transform coding into a live creative art form.<\/p>\n
This is something I tried to write about in my [1993] Masters thesis \u2014 I went into a virtual reality context, trying to enable the construction of any form of codified instrument in a VR environment;\u00a0 exploring questions about what a performant interface might be if you had unlimited possibilities.<\/p>\n
Alex has instead created something very useable, accessible and enables many thousands of people to explore and create a different way of writing.<\/p>\n
Beyond creating the code, and helping build a diverse and open community, he’s touched on the fact that this is a response to a shifting cultural landscape:\u00a0\u00a0“if you share something it grows in value” \/\/\u00a0“extreme sharing is a political act”<\/p>\n
Algorave embodies the principles of a different way of thinking.<\/p>\n
In my corporate presentations, today, I talk about data “increasing in value the more it is connected” (rather than “being the new oil”).\u00a0 I suspect we are still at the beginning of this particular socioeconomic unpacking.<\/p>\n