{"id":1880954,"date":"2026-04-13T13:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1880954"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:34:48","slug":"embodying-code-artist-alida-sun-and-the-physical-craft-of-code-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1880954","title":{"rendered":"Embodying Code: Artist Alida Sun and the physical craft of code art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/70\/79\/62\/1200x675_cmsv2_72660bf7-1cbf-5ad7-b0a9-42d6c9141a7d-9707962.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"abe-2885928-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1 m-modeXL-1\" data-nid=\"2885928\" data-cid=\"9720553\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2885928-label-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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class=\"js-superdiv u-aspect-ratio-16x9 u-position-relative \" data-sponsored=\"Partner content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-poster-img c-article-media__img\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/70\/79\/62\/1536x864_cmsv2_72660bf7-1cbf-5ad7-b0a9-42d6c9141a7d-9707962.jpg\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Portrait of the artist Alida Sun, who does not share her face publicly. \"><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-caption u-position-absolute\"><i id=\"article-caption-content\" class=\"c-article-caption__content\"><span class=\"c-article-caption__text\"><br \/>\n              Portrait of the artist Alida Sun, who does not share her face publicly.<br \/>\n                    <span class=\"u-color-white\">&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__copyright\">Copyright\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__credit\">Courtesy of Alida Sun<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-copyright c-article-image-copyright--novideo\">\n      Copyright\u00a0Courtesy of Alida Sun\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"helper-site-container o-article-immersive__content u-article-content\">\n<div class=\"c-article-image-copyright c-article-image-copyright--novideo\">\n      Copyright\u00a0Courtesy of Alida Sun\n  <\/div>\n<header class=\"h-grid o-article-immersive__header\">\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\" class=\"c-article-breadcrumbs\">\n<div id=\"adb-article-breadcrumb\" class=\"c-article-breadcrumbs__list\">\n<p>                          Culture<\/p>\n<p>                          Art<\/p><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<h1 class=\"c-article-redesign-title\">\n                            Embodying Code: Artist Alida Sun and the physical craft of code art<\/h1>\n<div class=\"c-article-contributors\">\n  By&amp;nbspAnushka Roy\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-publication-date\" data-timestamp=\"1776087288\">\n         Published on<br \/>\n            <time 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width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"whatsapp\" loading=\"lazy\"><span>Whatsapp<\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/vector\/social-icons\/article-redesign-whatsapp.svg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"whatsapp\" class=\"u-show-for-desktop\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"o-article-immersive__body t-article--immersive\">\n<h2 class=\"c-article-summary\">\n        Berlin-based artist Alida Sun codes new works of digital art nearly every day. Following a recent exhibition, she tells Euronews Culture how she translated these immaterial artworks into tangible tapestries, exploring the physical rituals behind coding.<br \/>\n    <\/h2>\n<div class=\"c-article-content c-article-content--culture js-article-content\">\n<p>When Alida Sun moves, rows of technicolour shapes move with her, tinkling as they are displaced. Geometric patterns and warbling chirps are characteristic of the Berlin-based artist and technologist\u2019s glittering digital artworks. <\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>These works are made with a self-designed system, which Sun calls an audio-visual instrument. It detects light and transforms her movements into visuals and sounds. Using this system, the multidisciplinary artist has created a new artwork every day for 2500 days. That&#8217;s nearly seven years of daily coding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I started on this daily coding journey, I knew I was going to have to make the process restorative and fun for me, because coding and being glued to a screen isn&#8217;t the healthiest practice,\u201d Sun tells Euronews Culture. <\/p>\n<p>So, she created a software that is intrinsically driven by physical movement. \u201cIn a way, it\u2019s a daily ritual of being aware of oneself &#8211; of the body &#8211; and playing,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n<p>To Sun, coding and artmaking has become a physical process. In her exhibition at Method Delhi titled <em>RITES<\/em>, Sun investigated the physical rituals and history of tangible craft behind lines of disembodied code. <\/p>\n<p>This month, Sun will lead a lecture on <em>RITES<\/em> and embodying code at The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and speak on her process of daily art-making at the Women In Tech Sweden conference in Stockholm.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-youtube-embed\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n<div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n        <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Ds9xRmMfCY\" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless><\/iframe>\n      <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.148105625717566\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/70\/79\/62\/1280x1471_cmsv2_6db1edc7-bb04-5914-aff7-d22ced25eaf2-9707962.jpg\" alt=\"Alida Sun's studio experiments\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Alida Sun&#8217;s studio experiments<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Courtesy of Alida Sun<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since her early forays into interactive and light art as a STEM graduate, Sun was moved by how technology-based art could shape physical space, ranging from rooms to neighbourhoods. Today, Sun tries to make code art more intimate and tangible. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s endlessly fascinating to me how people can connect with an artwork through their phone screens and how it can affect them on a physical level because I am using my physicality to create these code artworks,\u201d she shares. \u201cCode is seen as a very cerebral medium, and people often think of it as disconnected from the physical self, but I am questioning and challenging that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>RITES<\/em> takes this one step further and translates Sun\u2019s code art works into hand-woven, embroidered tapestries. The works were woven in collaboration with women artisan weavers from the Swami Sivananda Memorial Institute of Fine Arts &amp; Crafts (SSMI), a Delhi-based non-profit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/70\/79\/62\/1280x853_cmsv2_2298fac5-723b-5dbb-8f08-2baaa5a5725b-9707962.jpg\" alt=\"Alida Sun\u2019s RITES, a solo exhibition at Method Delhi, 2026.\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Alida Sun\u2019s RITES, a solo exhibition at Method Delhi, 2026.<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Courtesy of Alida Sun<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The exhibition presents an alternative way of viewing technology, focusing on \u201cthe history that is outside of this \u2018Big Tech bro-ligarchy\u2019,\u201d says Sun. At the heart of the project is the reclamation of women\u2019s pivotal and oft-erased contributions to the development of modern computational programming.<\/p>\n<p>The bright, intricately threaded tapestries are fitting vessels to capture this history: modern programming finds its roots in weaving, a practice also conventionally associated with women\u2019s labour. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen literally wove the memory that got humanity to the moon,\u201d Sun says in reference to the women in New England, US, who stored the software code for the Apollo Missions in handwoven copper \u2018rope\u2019. The technology, called \u2018core-rope memory,\u2019 was very similar to weaving, and most of the women encoding the information used to work in textile mills.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s computational heritage and the kinship between textiles and code also drove Sun\u2019s collaboration with the women artisans at SSMI. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia&#8217;s history of textiles is something that I&#8217;m still learning about, but I&#8217;m consistently blown away by,\u201d Sun says. <\/p>\n<p>Working on <em>RITES<\/em>, the artist was keen to incorporate this artistic heritage and collaborate closely with the artisans. \u201cThey [the artisans] started embroidering flowers and their own patterns, and that was a really important part of the exhibition: to amplify the culture in which these works were actually hand-embroidered,\u201d Sun explains. \u201cIt was this lovely dialogue that also influenced my programming: I&#8217;ve never programmed flowers before, but once I saw what the artisans were doing, I started programming flowers into digital environments.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7885\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/70\/79\/62\/1280x1008_cmsv2_38e86a63-2a3a-5adb-b4e2-b8e0f18316f9-9707962.jpg\" alt=\"Alida Sun\u2019s \u2018Protect your playful whimsy at all costs\u2019, a part of RITES.\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Alida Sun\u2019s \u2018Protect your playful whimsy at all costs\u2019, a part of RITES.<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Courtesy of Alida Sun<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The focus on weaving and the intricate, technical work of the artisans was crucial to celebrate women\u2019s artistry. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll these art forms that are mostly associated or created by women are relegated to craft and not art or fine art,\u201d she explains. \u201cThe hierarchy of the two [art versus craft] is deeply entrenched in patriarchy and colonialism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The designation of arts that adorn people or the home as \u2018applied\u2019 or \u2018decorative\u2019 has historically plagued the artistic ventures of women. As influential art historians Griselda Pollock and Rozsika Parker wrote in their 1998 paper &#8220;Crafty Women and the Hierarchy of the Arts&#8221;: \u201cThe sex of the artist matters. It conditions the way art is seen and discussed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/70\/79\/62\/1280x853_cmsv2_922f28e4-5d0f-5f32-a7f7-dbf8240ac013-9707962.jpg\" alt=\"Alida Sun\u2019s \u2018imagine technology free from imperialism\u2019, a part of RITES.\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Alida Sun\u2019s \u2018imagine technology free from imperialism\u2019, a part of RITES.<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Courtesy of Alida Sun<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With <em>RITES<\/em>, Sun and the artisans from SSMI were in constant dialogue. Despite language barriers and coming from different cultural contexts, they could connect over their encounters with the patriarchy, the aims of the exhibition, and the joy of the generative art process. Going into the artmaking process, which took two years, Sun had one guiding principle: \u201cJust have fun with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The results radiate joy. Squares in an assortment of sizes and colours are threaded onto a striking pink background in her piece <em>Protect your playful whimsy at all costs<\/em>. Little embroidered flowers and linework stand out as if embossed, giving dimension to <em>Women pioneered electronic sound art<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7625\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/70\/79\/62\/1280x977_cmsv2_cb8f915c-5052-5860-9bd9-97839c476e42-9707962.jpg\" alt=\"Alida Sun\u2019s \u2018Women pioneered electronic sound art\u2019, a part of RITES.\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Alida Sun\u2019s \u2018Women pioneered electronic sound art\u2019, a part of RITES.<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Courtesy of Alida Sun<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Having fun allows Sun to operate outside the \u201cpadlocked dumpster fire,\u201d as she calls it, of the existing tech ecosystem. When she could not afford software as a new artist, she made her own system. At first, she was largely making works in black and white (\u201cit\u2019s good for projection,\u201d she explains) but soon began to create in colour.<\/p>\n<p>Her art is playful and, for its carefree and feminine nature, subversive. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe girliness and the feminine qualities &#8211; I think they feel the most subversive,\u201d she says. \u201cThere&#8217;s a really exciting movement where more people, especially women and girls, are questioning and challenging these Big Tech narratives, which are always male-dominated and are, as such, extremely boring.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sun herself actively critiques exclusionary systems in the tech world and beyond through her art and on her <strong>Instagram<\/strong>, which has 177K followers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.713\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/70\/79\/62\/1280x914_cmsv2_33a0f670-b01d-541e-bba0-cb12b26d1d05-9707962.jpg\" alt=\"Alida Sun's 'Stellaraum' at Kraftwerk Berlin, Germany, 2022.\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Alida Sun&#8217;s &#8216;Stellaraum&#8217; at Kraftwerk Berlin, Germany, 2022.<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Courtesy of Alida Sun<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As Sun continues her daily artmaking journey, she holds tight to this sense of play and movement. \u201cIt makes the coding process a lot more fun and restorative,\u201d she says. \u201cThere&#8217;s something strangely healing about code for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After her exhibition at Method Delhi ended last month, Sun\u2019s <em>RITES<\/em> can currently be viewed online. 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Geometric patterns and warbling chirps are characteristic of the Berlin-based artist and technologist\u2019s glittering digital artworks.These works are made with a self-designed system, which Sun calls an audio-visual instrument. It detects light and transforms her movements into visuals and sounds. Using this system, the multidisciplinary artist has created a new artwork every day for 2500 days. That&#8217;s nearly seven years of daily coding.\u201cWhen I started on this daily coding journey, I knew I was going to have to make the process restorative and fun for me, because coding and being glued to a screen isn&#8217;t the healthiest practice,\u201d Sun tells Euronews Culture.So, she created a software that is intrinsically driven by physical movement. \u201cIn a way, it\u2019s a daily ritual of being aware of oneself &#8211; of the body &#8211; and playing,\u201d she says.To Sun, coding and artmaking has become a physical process. In her exhibition at Method Delhi titled RITES, Sun investigated the physical rituals and history of tangible craft behind lines of disembodied code.This month, Sun will lead a lecture on RITES and embodying code at The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and speak on her process of daily art-making at the Women In Tech Sweden conference in Stockholm.Since her early forays into interactive and light art as a STEM graduate, Sun was moved by how technology-based art could shape physical space, ranging from rooms to neighbourhoods. Today, Sun tries to make code art more intimate and tangible.\u201cIt&#8217;s endlessly fascinating to me how people can connect with an artwork through their phone screens and how it can affect them on a physical level because I am using my physicality to create these code artworks,\u201d she shares. \u201cCode is seen as a very cerebral medium, and people often think of it as disconnected from the physical self, but I am questioning and challenging that.\u201dRITES takes this one step further and translates Sun\u2019s code art works into hand-woven, embroidered tapestries. The works were woven in collaboration with women artisan weavers from the Swami Sivananda Memorial Institute of Fine Arts &amp; Crafts (SSMI), a Delhi-based non-profit.The exhibition presents an alternative way of viewing technology, focusing on \u201cthe history that is outside of this \u2018Big Tech bro-ligarchy\u2019,\u201d says Sun. At the heart of the project is the reclamation of women\u2019s pivotal and oft-erased contributions to the development of modern computational programming.The bright, intricately threaded tapestries are fitting vessels to capture this history: modern programming finds its roots in weaving, a practice also conventionally associated with women\u2019s labour.\u201cWomen literally wove the memory that got humanity to the moon,\u201d Sun says in reference to the women in New England, US, who stored the software code for the Apollo Missions in handwoven copper \u2018rope\u2019. The technology, called \u2018core-rope memory,\u2019 was very similar to weaving, and most of the women encoding the information used to work in textile mills.Women\u2019s computational heritage and the kinship between textiles and code also drove Sun\u2019s collaboration with the women artisans at SSMI.\u201cIndia&#8217;s history of textiles is something that I&#8217;m still learning about, but I&#8217;m consistently blown away by,\u201d Sun says.Working on RITES, the artist was keen to incorporate this artistic heritage and collaborate closely with the artisans. \u201cThey [the artisans] started embroidering flowers and their own patterns, and that was a really important part of the exhibition: to amplify the culture in which these works were actually hand-embroidered,\u201d Sun explains. \u201cIt was this lovely dialogue that also influenced my programming: I&#8217;ve never programmed flowers before, but once I saw what the artisans were doing, I started programming flowers into digital environments.\u201dThe focus on weaving and the intricate, technical work of the artisans was crucial to celebrate women\u2019s artistry.\u201cAll these art forms that are mostly associated or created by women are relegated to craft and not art or fine art,\u201d she explains. \u201cThe hierarchy of the two [art versus craft] is deeply entrenched in patriarchy and colonialism.\u201dThe designation of arts that adorn people or the home as \u2018applied\u2019 or \u2018decorative\u2019 has historically plagued the artistic ventures of women. As influential art historians Griselda Pollock and Rozsika Parker wrote in their 1998 paper &#8220;Crafty Women and the Hierarchy of the Arts&#8221;: \u201cThe sex of the artist matters. It conditions the way art is seen and discussed.&#8221;With RITES, Sun and the artisans from SSMI were in constant dialogue. Despite language barriers and coming from different cultural contexts, they could connect over their encounters with the patriarchy, the aims of the exhibition, and the joy of the generative art process. Going into the artmaking process, which took two years, Sun had one guiding principle: \u201cJust have fun with it.\u201dThe results radiate joy. Squares in an assortment of sizes and colours are threaded onto a striking pink background in her piece Protect your playful whimsy at all costs. Little embroidered flowers and linework stand out as if embossed, giving dimension to Women pioneered electronic sound art.Having fun allows Sun to operate outside the \u201cpadlocked dumpster fire,\u201d as she calls it, of the existing tech ecosystem. When she could not afford software as a new artist, she made her own system. At first, she was largely making works in black and white (\u201cit\u2019s good for projection,\u201d she explains) but soon began to create in colour.Her art is playful and, for its carefree and feminine nature, subversive.\u201cThe girliness and the feminine qualities &#8211; I think they feel the most subversive,\u201d she says. \u201cThere&#8217;s a really exciting movement where more people, especially women and girls, are questioning and challenging these Big Tech narratives, which are always male-dominated and are, as such, extremely boring.\u201dSun herself actively critiques exclusionary systems in the tech world and beyond through her art and on her Instagram, which has 177K followers.As Sun continues her daily artmaking journey, she holds tight to this sense of play and movement. \u201cIt makes the coding process a lot more fun and restorative,\u201d she says. \u201cThere&#8217;s something strangely healing about code for me.\u201dAfter her exhibition at Method Delhi ended last month, Sun\u2019s RITES can currently be viewed online. 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