Organizations
TOPLAP (The (Temporary|Transnational|Terrestrial|Transdimensional) Organisation for the (Promotion|Proliferation|Permanence|Purity) of Live (Algorithm|Audio|Art|Artistic) Programming) is an informal organization formed in February 2004 to bring together the various communities that had formed around live coding environments. The TOPLAP manifesto asserts several requirements for a TOPLAP compliant performance, in particular that performers' screens should be projected and not hidden. TOPLAP has had a number of international meetings, including the LOSS Livecode festival at Access Space in 2007, and in 2009 received organisational funding from the PRS Foundation for its UK activities.
Academic research into live coding is ongoing at a number of institutions including the Princeton Sound Lab, the University of Cologne, the Queensland University of Technology and the Digital Studios at Goldsmiths, University of London. However live coding environments are generally free/open source software efforts and so are in part or wholly developed by independent practitioners.
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