Declare’s the oracle in Laura Konttinen’s work the Oracle. One of the participant in this years UWAS Creative Coding course. The course is a part of Aalto’s University-Wide Art Studies, meaning art studies directed to the students in the whole university. Therefore, the course participants are a diverse group from schools of art, business and technology, each with their own speciality and knowledge. This gives a certain richness to the course and also puts me, the teacher between a rock and a hard place as many of the students have far better skills in coding than me -a puny art teacher.

This year, due to the non-human actant, the course ran entirely online. This meant that the more hardware-oriented creation (Think Arduino, motors, sensors etc.) had to be forgotten, but on the other hand, enabled a much larger class; The previously 15 students max course could take in all the 100 students enrolled to the course.

The course ran little over a month and included subjects as broad as post-digital society and culture, artificial intelligence and art, feminist approaches to coding and of course code and art. During the course, students created their own artwork, The Oracle being among them. You can see some of the final works in our Creative Coding Exhibition space: https://www.openprocessing.org/class/64099 . There you can rescue space cows, or land astronaut back to earth, jump very high and many other things, Welcome to the exhibition!