What art has to offer programmers as told as an artist turned engineer working at LinkedIn.

1. hi!
I’m Yeli.
@YellzHeard

6. Traditional tech
Creative coding
me

7. Traditional tech
Creative coding
me

8. 1. They both involve creative thinking & problem
solving.
2. Beginning with a blank slate and creating
something useful out of nothing.

10. What art can teach you.

11. 1. To embrace our work as
human.

12. art === human

13. code === ?

15. “Companies may say they are looking
for a rockstar or ninja to join their team,
and white men are more likely to identify
with or aspire to such descriptions.”
Kieran Snyder @KieranSnyder

16. >

17. 2009: 2 projects. 200
hours. 10,000 people.

18. 2013: 73 projects. 350
hours. 500k - 1M people.

20. finished !== perfect

21. “I’m not saying “don’t finish your work,
just radically alter your idea of what
‘finished’ means.”
Darius Kazemi, @tinysubversions

23. 2. That things don’t have
to be so complicated.

24. You Are Not Google
@ozanonay

26. 3. The tool serves the
function / what’s
important is the idea.

27. how > what + why ← how it is
how < what + why ← how it should be
Catt Small @cattsmall

29. 4. How to make something
useless.

32. Stupid Shit No One Needs
and Terrible Ideas
Hackathon
@StupidHackathon

33. Chrome extension called NonAd Blocker
Unfriend the Poors
HypochondriappU
Outcognito Mode
Shakie

36. 5. To embrace uncertainty.

41. 1. Knowledge of the problem you’re trying to
address
2. A strategy to approach
3. A willingness to embrace mistakes and
surprises along the way.

42. 1. Embrace our work as human.
a. More friendly to all.
b. Bypass perfection.
c. Allows us to make more.
2. It doesn’t have to be so complicated.
3. The tool serves the function. The idea is most
important.
4. Make useless shit.
5. Embrace uncertainty.

43. 1. !!Con - Keynote: The Creative Programmer By Catt Small
2. Jenn Schiffer, Engineer/Artist - XOXO Festival
3. Darius Kazemi @tinysubversions
4. Stupidhackathon.com | @stupidhackathon | Sam Lavigne & Amelia Winger-Bearskin
5. You are not Google | @ozanonay
6. Processing | processing.org
7. Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking: David Bayles &
Ted Orland
8. https://textio.ai/@kieransnyder | Kieran Snyder
9. Animated stick figure by joanshane0718
10. https://www.flaticon.com/authors/freepik
11. https://www.flaticon.com/authors/dave-gandy
12. https://www.flaticon.com/packs/material-design
13. https://www.flaticon.com/authors/smartline
14. Me! (Omayeli Arenyeka, @YellzHeard)