Daniel Manesh: Supporting Code Performances

For my dissertation, I am interested in what I call code performances, where a performer (broadly construed) writes, modifies, and runs code live for an audience. While code is often presented as a static, pre-written artifact, watching code being written live allows the audience to observe the evolution of the code over time, gaining insight into the performer’s thought process. My work focuses on three practices which can be considered code performances: