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Dea Bankova

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👩‍💻 Creative developer; Data visualisation for Reuters Graphics 🖌️ Posting about data viz + art, creative coding 🌸 👩‍🎨 Organising c3s - community for co-creating with code in London 🦉 All views my own 🐈🐈‍⬛ are my joy 📍 London, sometimes Tokyo

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Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Nov 27

👋 Hi! I'm Dea and I'm a creative developer working as a data viz dev at Reuters Graphics in London.
I love tinkering with frameworks & tools like p5, d3, three.js etc. to make data art/viz & all sorts.

Posting abt/following viz, art, gen art & the scenes thereof in UK and Japan.
💫 deabankova.com

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c3s: Creative Coding Crafts Space @cccraftsspace.bsky.social · 4d

London's biggest creative computing event, Peckham Digital, is happening next week and we're beyond excited for it✨
c3s will be there + Dea is running a workshop called "Drawing sketches on a Canvas with your body (ft. p5.js & ml5.js)"
🗓️ Sat 18th
🕜 1:30pm - 3:00pm
📍 Social, SE15 3SN
👇 Below for 🎟️

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Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Aug 16

✨ c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social next event with 4 very special guests from London's thriving live coding scene.
Come & learn how to create live audio visuals with beginner-friendly langs 🪩Hydra + 🎵Strudel. ✨

🗓️ Sat, 30 Aug
🕑 2pm ~
📍The Cave, HW, London
🎫 tickets on luma~
lu.ma/9kf45v58?tk=...

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c3s: Creative Coding Crafts Space @cccraftsspace.bsky.social · Jul 14

📢 c3s: Creative Coding Crafts Space meetup #7: Wired Connections

Next event is up! Learn about e-textiles and leave with your own LED gloves! Spaces are limited-hope to see you there 💫
📍 UCL Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
🗓️ Sun, Jul 27th, 2~5pm
🎟️ tickets & details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-c...

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Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Jun 30

Somebody asked for cat pics 👀

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Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thank you! I'd hope so ^^''

Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Jun 30

I used Sanity. I don't have other things to compare it to (other than our internal system) but seems to work quite well for my purposes.

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Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Jun 29

Quietly rolling out a completely redone portfolio website.
Featuring: no longer having to use node 14 to get it to work! Also Svelte 5. And a CMS replacing a very large projects.json - I feel so mature now.
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www.deabankova.com
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Screenshot of the portfolio site, featuring a stylised sea-like 'gradient' for saturated pinks, blues and greens.

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Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · May 31

🔊Happening next Sat! c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social next meetup!!

We'll try to animate anything (bring your own website kinda thing) with GSAP 💚

🗓️ Sat 7 June, 2pm~
📍The Cave, LDN
🎫 lu.ma/ugcoydkj

(I think it's actually gonna rain, let'd huddle together indoors for some cosy-but-not-vibe coding 👾)

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Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · May 6

State of the art AI 8 years ago

Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Apr 17

I wonder how that popped into my mind

Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Apr 17

You conjugate almost everything. In 'one beautiful woman', every word is feminine. Surnames always express something akin to belonging, a possessive. Usually ending in -ov/ev (masculine) and -ova/eva (feminine). So by giving Viktor a first name surname, JK essentially made it gender-neutral 🫠

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Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Apr 17

It always struck me (and everyone else) as odd that J. K. Rowling chose to call the Bulgarian character of HP Viktor Krum. Let's dissect that a bit. These are two first names, a basically impossible combo in Bulgarian. We've got a gendered language, in fact a highly gendered one. 1/

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · Apr 17

I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community.

We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect?

Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.

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Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Apr 11

Black Mirror s7 ep1. Is this the world that we want?

Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Apr 10

Resources are up in the 'resources' section of the c3s website www.creativecodingcrafts.space and as always, the fun chats and more resources end up on Discord first discord.gg/HGH7uEpy99 ~

c3s: Creative Coding Crafts Space

Co-creating an experimental space of code and art via monthly creative coding meetups in London.

www.creativecodingcrafts.space

Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Apr 10

The quantum-ified music was one of my favourite parts. I don’t.. really.. understand music (unlike quantum), but it did sound magical.

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Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Apr 10

We had a wonderfully weird Saturday last week at c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social , where two special guests from Quantum Village talked about quantum computing in the arts, from history to hands-on frameworks. 👾

I wouldn’t even have imagined we’d host such an event when I first conceived of c3s 🫰

A woman sat behind a laptop presenting on a big screen. The screen reads: 'Music from electronic to quantum; Eduardo Miranda'

A woman sat behind a laptop presenting on a big screen. The screen reads: 'How is art and media and culture shaped by quantum today'

A woman sat behind a laptop presenting on a big screen. The screen reads: 'Quantum projects and open resources'

A man sat behind a laptop presenting on a big screen. The screen reads: 'Quantum Village creative projects'

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Apr 10

Kurt Vonnegut man

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:
"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man.
You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · Aug 26

individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto
alienmelon.itch.io/shovelware
"This is an interactive-essay-meets-walking-sim about technocapitalism and the things we lost along the way."
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#GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #IndieGameDev #LiminalSpace

Exploring the Windows 3D maze screensaver you find a smiley face lurking from behind the corner. The face is very big. It looks menacing.

In a room with monitors piled on a trashcan. There are papers surrounding the dumpster, and bags of trash in the corner. Someone cleared out in a hurry.

Entering the classic 3D maze screensaver. There are rats up ahead. You must collect them.

Turning a corner to find old CRT monitors piled against the wall. Mice are dangling from the ceiling. The "Start" icon is in the corner.

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Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Mar 30

In all the discourse on AI vs software eng, I keep seeing variations on the same: 'AI can't do scalable, secure code and that's what devs do'. I'd love to see more on the creativity of writing code, grounding it in being human and real-world experiences. I don't think devs are scalability machines.

Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Mar 28

📢 Reminder: Next c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social meetup is

🗓️ Sat 5th April @ The Cave in London, 🕑 2pm~

🎫 Grab your tickets here: lu.ma/2bvp84e5 🎫

We're super excited about this one! ✨✨✨

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Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Mar 22

It's been over 3 years since we got the masterpiece that is 'Twenty-five twenty-one' and really what has been going since then? ☠️
Did we reach peak k-drama in 2022? I really want to watch something good again, like actually good. Not 'When the stars gossip', what was that even.. 😵

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c3s: Creative Coding Crafts Space @cccraftsspace.bsky.social · Mar 19

Next meetup is up 👾!!
We'll be at the Cave (London) again
🕑 2pm~ on 🗓️ Sat 5th April

Regulars Victoria and Mark will talk about some cutting edge uses of quantum computing in the arts, including showing us quantum-infused musical instruments. 🎹.
We are so excited about this one~

lu.ma/2bvp84e5

c3s meetup #5: Quantum Canvas - Freeing the Qubit For Art · Luma

✨✨✨ Join is for a hands-on exploration of how quantum computing can be used as a creative tool in art and music. ✨✨✨ 🪄 Expect demos of quantum-inspired…

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Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Mar 18

Bookclub is going strong + they have a lovely new venue!

Mickey @mickeymarse.dev · Mar 10

Next #CreativeCodingBookclub meetup happening on Thursday 27th March.

RSVP here: lu.ma/dul7dg8r

We will discuss and share works inspired by Chapter 1: Vectors of The Nature of Code by @shiffman.lol .

Join @cccraftsspace.bsky.social Discord ( discord.com/invite/qfKax... ) if you have questions.

Creative Coding Bookclub - Chapter 1: Vectors · Luma

🥳 About the event At the Creative Coding Bookclub we aim to actively work our way through writings that inspire the reader with practical coding challenges,…

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Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Mar 18

I hope that this is useful for people who can't come to our in-person meetups, too. 💖