Alicia Champlin is an American intermedial artist and researcher from Maine, based in Barcelona since 2017. She works primarily with generative systems and sound, using installation and performance to explore aspects of agency and embodied cognition. Emergence, resonance and biofeedback are favorite tools. She also plays the bow chime, sometimes with EEG augmentation.

Champlin fell in love at a workshop in Tidal Cycles in 2017 and has been playing with live coding ever since, sometimes as a way to work out an idea, and sometimes just as a meditation in sound. She is an active member of Toplap Barcelona.
Champlin received her MFA from the University of Maine and has performed, exhibited or collaborated with Sònar Festival, Phonos, Cabaret Voltaire, BEK, IEM…

Lina Bautista aka Linalab is a musician from Bogotá, Colombia that lives and works in Barcelona. She holds a degree in music composition, and master degrees in Musical Composition and New Technologies and in Design of Interactive Musical Systems and Sound Art. With her musical project Linalab, she has produced several albums and performed on stages around the world. She is a founding member of Toplap Barcelona. Also, she is the former artistic director of the European project “on-the-fly”, focused on live coding. Currently, she works with the record labels Synth Vicious and Aloud Music and teaches in several institutions in Barcelona, including the master’s degree in Sound Art at the UB and the Sound Workshop of Fine Arts at the UOC, among others.

Julia Múgica is a Mexican scientist and artist currently incurring in the exploration of nature’s complex processes. With an interdisciplinary background that encompasses Biology, Psychology and Computational Physics, she is deeply interested in understanding how collectives make decisions that result in a behavioral synchrony. Recently, she focused her work in creative coding, where the process of creation magnifies different aspects of the same phenomena. Her work includes data analysis and visualization, modelling of animated particles, noise design from random walks algorithms, rhythm and collective patterns with interactive robots and speech-recognition artistic applications. She practices data-driven live coding and is an active member of the toplap community in Barcelona. She is also a professor at the University of Barcelona where she teaches collective behavior and complexity from a socio-computational perspective.

Citlali Hernández is a mexican artist and designer whose work focuses on exploring the potentialities of the body in the field of electronic and digital arts. Her experiments intertwine the materialities of live performance art, wires, pixels and circuits. Lately she has been exploring the relationship between digital viral media and non verbal communication in social media platforms through networked and hybrid (online-offline) performances. She is a digital fabrication, design and interaction teacher in several institutions, and participates as a visualist with Toplap Barcelona using her own body and Hydra.

Research Software Engineer, free software activist, computational artist and experimental musician. They are an instructur of The Carpentries, Software Heritage ambassador and contributor to the universal operating system Debian.

Currently they work as a researcher at Université Gustave Eiffel as a backend developer in the projects Research Infrastructure for Science, technology and Innovation policy Studies (RISIS) and CorTexT Platform.

From Porto, Gama Reis is dedicated to livecoding and the Tidalcycles community, having played and helped organize livecoding marathons in 48-hour continuous streams, with performers from all over the world. His debut performance in the capital will be an assimilation of livecoding and DJ-set, with a sequence of remakes, remixes and edits of dancefloor songs from the last 3 decades that still deserve attention today. With three mini-synths, a drum machine and a few code words, Gama Reis brings a liveset designed to make you think less and dance more.

Not Binary Code was founded in 2022 with the intention of developing and holding safe-spaces for Lisbon’s Algorave, Live Coding and AudioVisual Technology communities.
Our node is a part of the greater Toplap network and adheres to the commitment towards openness and transparency while simultaneously adapting itself to the specific wants and needs of our community.
Queerness, in its most pure definition, is what we strive for – we love weird music, scrappily written code, rejected bodies and invisible identities.
Be it by creating bits or by creating memories, we, together, forge the futures that make us more connected, less carbon.