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Dea Bankova
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👩‍💻 Creative developer; Data visualisation for Reuters Graphics
🖌️ Posting about data viz + art, creative coding 🌸
👩‍🎨 Organising c3s - community for co-creating with code in London
🦉 All views my own
🐈🐈‍⬛ are my joy
📍 London, sometimes Tokyo
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Dea Bankova @deabankova.bsky.social · Nov 27
👋 Hi! I'm Dea and I'm a creative developer working as a data viz dev at Reuters Graphics in London.
I love tinkering with frameworks & tools like p5, d3, three.js etc. to make data art/viz & all sorts.

Posting abt/following viz, art, gen art & the scenes thereof in UK and Japan.
💫 deabankova.com
deabankova.bsky.social
<1 week till Peckham Digital 🫰
I'm doing a workshop on Sat (18th) on drawing live sketches with your face & body w/ p5.js and ml5.js; in lieu of doing something with c3s this month~.

Would love to see you around at the fest 💜 (or workshop -> www.peckhamdigital.org/events/2025/...)
October 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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cccraftsspace.bsky.social
London's biggest creative computing event, Peckham Digital, is happening next week and we're beyond excited for it✨
c3s will be there + Dea is running a workshop called "Drawing sketches on a Canvas with your body (ft. p5.js & ml5.js)"
🗓️ Sat 18th
🕜 1:30pm - 3:00pm
📍 Social, SE15 3SN
👇 Below for 🎟️
October 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
deabankova.bsky.social
✨ c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social next event with 4 very special guests from London's thriving live coding scene.
Come & learn how to create live audio visuals with beginner-friendly langs 🪩Hydra + 🎵Strudel. ✨

🗓️ Sat, 30 Aug
🕑 2pm ~
📍The Cave, HW, London
🎫 tickets on luma~
lu.ma/9kf45v58?tk=...
August 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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cccraftsspace.bsky.social
📢 c3s: Creative Coding Crafts Space meetup #7: Wired Connections

Next event is up! Learn about e-textiles and leave with your own LED gloves! Spaces are limited-hope to see you there 💫
📍 UCL Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
🗓️ Sun, Jul 27th, 2~5pm
🎟️ tickets & details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-c...
July 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
deabankova.bsky.social
Quietly rolling out a completely redone portfolio website.
Featuring: no longer having to use node 14 to get it to work! Also Svelte 5. And a CMS replacing a very large projects.json - I feel so mature now.
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www.deabankova.com
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Screenshot of the portfolio site, featuring a stylised sea-like 'gradient' for saturated pinks, blues and greens.
June 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
deabankova.bsky.social
🔊Happening next Sat! c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social next meetup!!

We'll try to animate anything (bring your own website kinda thing) with GSAP 💚

🗓️ Sat 7 June, 2pm~
📍The Cave, LDN
🎫 lu.ma/ugcoydkj

(I think it's actually gonna rain, let'd huddle together indoors for some cosy-but-not-vibe coding 👾)
May 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
deabankova.bsky.social
State of the art AI 8 years ago
May 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
deabankova.bsky.social
It always struck me (and everyone else) as odd that J. K. Rowling chose to call the Bulgarian character of HP Viktor Krum. Let's dissect that a bit. These are two first names, a basically impossible combo in Bulgarian. We've got a gendered language, in fact a highly gendered one. 1/
April 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community.

We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect?

Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
deabankova.bsky.social
Black Mirror s7 ep1. Is this the world that we want?
April 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
deabankova.bsky.social
We had a wonderfully weird Saturday last week at c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social , where two special guests from Quantum Village talked about quantum computing in the arts, from history to hands-on frameworks. 👾

I wouldn’t even have imagined we’d host such an event when I first conceived of c3s 🫰
A woman sat behind a laptop presenting on a big screen. The screen reads: 'Music from electronic to quantum; Eduardo Miranda' A woman sat behind a laptop presenting on a big screen. The screen reads: 'How is art and media and culture shaped by quantum today' A woman sat behind a laptop presenting on a big screen. The screen reads: 'Quantum projects and open resources' A man sat behind a laptop presenting on a big screen. The screen reads: 'Quantum Village creative projects'
April 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Kurt Vonnegut man
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."
April 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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alienmelon.bsky.social
individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto
alienmelon.itch.io/shovelware
"This is an interactive-essay-meets-walking-sim about technocapitalism and the things we lost along the way."
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#GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #IndieGameDev #LiminalSpace
Exploring the Windows 3D maze screensaver you find a smiley face lurking from behind the corner. The face is very big. It looks menacing. In a room with monitors piled on a trashcan. There are papers surrounding the dumpster, and bags of trash in the corner. Someone cleared out in a hurry. Entering the classic 3D maze screensaver. There are rats up ahead. You must collect them. Turning a corner to find old CRT monitors piled against the wall. Mice are dangling from the ceiling. The "Start" icon is in the corner.
August 26, 2024 at 6:34 AM
deabankova.bsky.social
In all the discourse on AI vs software eng, I keep seeing variations on the same: 'AI can't do scalable, secure code and that's what devs do'. I'd love to see more on the creativity of writing code, grounding it in being human and real-world experiences. I don't think devs are scalability machines.
March 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
deabankova.bsky.social
📢 Reminder: Next c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social meetup is

🗓️ Sat 5th April @ The Cave in London, 🕑 2pm~

🎫 Grab your tickets here: lu.ma/2bvp84e5 🎫

We're super excited about this one! ✨✨✨
March 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
deabankova.bsky.social
It's been over 3 years since we got the masterpiece that is 'Twenty-five twenty-one' and really what has been going since then? ☠️
Did we reach peak k-drama in 2022? I really want to watch something good again, like actually good. Not 'When the stars gossip', what was that even.. 😵
March 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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cccraftsspace.bsky.social
Next meetup is up 👾!!
We'll be at the Cave (London) again
🕑 2pm~ on 🗓️ Sat 5th April

Regulars Victoria and Mark will talk about some cutting edge uses of quantum computing in the arts, including showing us quantum-infused musical instruments. 🎹.
We are so excited about this one~

lu.ma/2bvp84e5
c3s meetup #5: Quantum Canvas - Freeing the Qubit For Art · Luma
✨✨✨ Join is for a hands-on exploration of how quantum computing can be used as a creative tool in art and music. ✨✨✨ 🪄 Expect demos of quantum-inspired…
lu.ma
March 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
deabankova.bsky.social
Bookclub is going strong + they have a lovely new venue!
March 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
deabankova.bsky.social
c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social
finally has a website, after months of iterating on.. dragonflies ✨ .
🔗 creativecodingcrafts.space
But seriously, it was greatly enjoyable putting this together, changing the layout, colours, effects and animations a dozen times until I was happy.
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March 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
deabankova.bsky.social
After ep 7 of Severance and binging season 2 of Pantheon, I have to declare this week my best week of sci-fi for years. What a ride. Where do I get more 😳
March 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
deabankova.bsky.social
From the last c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social meetup on Sat; love how the light makes me look like a mythical creature 😆
Next event will be about quantum in the arts (yeah, casual stuff) + we've got some other really cool potential speakers.
Love to see this space growing, thank you all for coming 💜
A venue full of people at their laptops and a close up of a speaker back-lit by purple light.
February 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
deabankova.bsky.social
Happening this Saturday in London. Unreasonably long tutorial is ready~ 👾
February 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
deabankova.bsky.social
Despairing over my Mac screen being toast after my cat🐈‍⬛ bit a corner and left a tiny tent that disturbed many lines of pixels, which now flicker constantly... finding solace on reddit where *multiple* people on one thread have had the exact same issue 🥲
February 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
deabankova.bsky.social
"Tomorrow and I" turned out to be one of the best sci-fi's I've seen. I never use the over-used words 'thought provoking' but can't think of a better way to describe it. Not like anything else I've seen; that final ep left me with all sorts of feelings. Think about what tomorrow has to be for 'you'
February 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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mickeymarse.dev
#CreativeCodingBookclub is meeting again on Wednesday 26th February!

All the info here: lu.ma/h3j0pku4

We will work on Chapter 0: Randomness of The Nature of Code by @shiffman.lol

Join @cccraftsspace.bsky.social Discord server if you want to share your work or ask questions: discord.gg/NRssnKnx
Creative Coding Bookclub - Chapter 0: Randomness · Luma
About this event The Creative Coding Bookclub is a new event, facilitated by Mickey and Luis, in which we aim to actively work our way through writings that…
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February 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM