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This page gathers open resources, documentation and reusable materials produced within BRKCODE — Breaking the Code: Algorithmic Non-Normativity in Creative Digital Humanities.

BRKCODE investigated how algorithmic systems classify, sort, rank, recommend, exclude and make certain forms of knowledge, identity and cultural practice more or less visible. Its resources reflect the project’s combined work across Creative Digital Humanities, Critical Code Studies, digital literature, arts education, feminist and queer theory, glitch, hacking, livecoding, artistic practice and open digital infrastructures.

Some materials are already available. Others are being edited, documented or prepared for deposit in appropriate repositories. Resources will be added progressively, following copyright, ethical, technical and data protection requirements.

 

Project outputs

Training materials and workflows

BRKCODE produced and prepared pedagogical materials connected to branching writing, digital archives, Wikibase, speculative vocabularies, open infrastructures, glitch, hacking, livecoding and Creative Digital Humanities pedagogy.

  • Branching Writing as Research Practice with Twine
    Training-material package including slides, workshop plan, consent template, questionnaire template and methodological note.
    Zenodo: 10.5281/zenodo.20971511

  • Branching Writing as Research Practice with Twine
    SSH Open Marketplace workflow.
    SSH Open Marketplace: https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/workflow/vAlERI/version/89348

  • Web Choreographies
    Interactive workshop by Joana Chicau, developed in the context of the BRKCODE Open Seminar + Interactive Workshop.
    Documentation: [TO BE ADDED SOON]

  • ParVO / ParVA pedagogical resources
    Materials connected to Wikibase, Wikidata, situated archives, speculative vocabularies and critical data literacy.
    https://coda.letras.up.pt/brkcode/lab/

Conference and audiovisual documentation

The project includes audiovisual documentation from the international conference Breaking the Code – Hacktivating Non-Normative Algorithms, including keynote lectures, conference sessions and workshops.

All registered conference participants authorised the recording and subsequent use of conference materials through an informed consent procedure included in the registration process via Microsoft CMT. Since the conference took place very close to the final reporting deadline, the project team requires additional time to review, edit, document and prepare these materials for publication.

Selected video recordings will be prepared for DARIAH-Campus or other appropriate dissemination channels.

  • Conference recordings: forthcoming

  • Keynote recordings: forthcoming

  • Workshop recordings: forthcoming

  • DARIAH-Campus resources: forthcoming

Publications and reports

BRKCODE outputs include research publications, conference documentation, reports and open science materials.

  • Breaking the Code – Hacktivating Non-Normative Algorithms: Book of Abstracts
    Zenodo: [TO BE ADDED SOON]

  • Scientific publications connected to BRKCODE, ParVO / ParVA and Arts Education
    Links will be added as publications become available.

Artistic and methodological references

The following resources bring together artistic, pedagogical and methodological references connected to code-based practice, live coding, net art, esoteric programming languages and critical approaches to computation.

  • Esoteric.Codes
    A resource dedicated to esoteric programming languages, code art and experimental approaches to programming.
    https://esoteric.codes/

  • Critical Coding Cookbook
    A collection of intersectional feminist approaches to teaching and learning code, organised as reusable recipes for critical coding practices.
    https://criticalcode.recipes/

  • Net Art Anthology — Rhizome
    Rhizome’s online anthology of net art, bringing together historical and contemporary works that help situate networked artistic practices.
    https://anthology.rhizome.org/

  • Blackwell, Alan F., Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, and Thor Magnusson. 2022. Live Coding: A User’s Manual. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
    Open access PDF: https://static.livecodingbook.toplap.org/books/livecoding.pdf

These references support BRKCODE’s interest in code as a cultural, artistic and methodological practice. They offer entry points into live coding, esoteric programming languages, net art, feminist coding pedagogy and experimental forms of computation in which error, deviation, constraint and misuse become productive modes of inquiry.

 

Open access, licences and reuse

BRKCODE follows the principle as open as possible, as closed as necessary.

Project-authored materials will be made available under open licences whenever legal, ethical and copyright conditions allow it. Some materials may remain restricted or partially documented because of third-party rights, artistic rights, personal data, image rights, recording quality or pending permissions.

Whenever possible, resources will be deposited or linked through appropriate platforms, including:

  • Zenodo

  • HAL / HAL DARIAH collection

  • DARIAH-Campus

  • SSH Open Marketplace

  • BRKCODE website

  • institutional repositories of the University of Porto

Unless otherwise stated, project materials should include the acknowledgement:

This work has been supported by the DARIAH ERIC.