15 April 2010 Presentation to Girl Geek Dinners in York on my personal journey through creativity and computing, and my experience of being an artist and a geek. Filmed as part of the UKRC/WYLLN 'Inspiring Women' project.

1. How I learnt to love numbers My personal experience of creativity and computing @iamhelenharrop @iamcreative

7. http://www.firebox.com/product/624/Postcode-Puzzles

9. I wanted to be a spy

15. Above all else though ...

18. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro (BBC Basic – 1981)

19. “ Do schools kill creativity?” http://on.ted.com/8GMY

20. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Y Z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 My world view until circa 1997

24. “ When I speak about computer programming as an art I am thinking primarily of it as an art form, in an aesthetic sense. The chief goal of my work is to help people learn how to write beautiful programs” Art of Computer Programming (Don Knuth,1968)

27. http://www.chris.com/ASCII/ ASCII Art

28. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/13/ascii-art-1948

29. 1948 !!!!!!!! http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/13/ascii-art-1948

34. ASCII Curtain - Nienke Sybrandy

35. Robert Hodgin + Arduino http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2007/08/29/biomimetic-butterflies/

36. “ Designed with Processing, made by mom” http://roberthodgin.com/magnetoquilt/

43. Adam Marks: calltrace: a live visualization of a running computer program. each box is a function in the code, each line is a function call.

45. Add Metadata