From 27 September to 5 October 2021, Codefest , the first global festival dedicated to source code, will be held in Turin. The event will take place both in-person and online and will focus on the culture of source code, its history and future perspectives on programming.
The festival will connect the worlds of education, research and art with coding, showing the general public the potential of programming in various fields, educating and deepening also theoretical aspects, and the possible connections with other sectors, not only disciplinary but also productive, industrial and not.
The Codefest agenda is based on six main thematic areas: Artificial Languages, Digital Poetry, Writing Code, Code and Society, Heritage, Aesthetics of Code.
In addition to workshops, seminars and training sessions on writing, reading and translating source code, many other activities are planned during the festival:
- live music;
- live coding events with the SuperCollider language;
- the world's first artistic event of calligraphy applied to source code with artist Massimo Polello;
- a virtual theatre performance dedicated to Ada Lovelace Byron, the British mathematician who devised what is considered the first algorithm dedicated to machine processing, earning her the reputation as the world's first computer programmer;
- panels and meetings, both face-to-face and virtual, with internationally renowned speakers;
- the Source Code Exhibition, organised by the student body of ITIS Avogadro in Turin;
- the opening of the Sources Code Museum Online.
Codefest is organised by the Departments of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, Physics and Computer Science of the University of Turin together with DAMS, MeDiHum, LLC, CIRCe, ASTUT, ITIS Avogadro, MUPIN Museo Piemontese dell'Informatica, CeSeDi - Centro Servizi Didattici di Torino, Conservatorio di Torino, AICA - Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica e il Calcolo Automatico, Fondazione Mondo Digitale and Associazione Gessetti Colorati.