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Dea Bankova
@deabankova.bsky.social
👩‍💻 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
<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
✨ 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
Somebody asked for cat pics 👀
June 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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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June 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🔊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
State of the art AI 8 years ago
May 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The quantum-ified music was one of my favourite parts. I don’t.. really.. understand music (unlike quantum), but it did sound magical.
April 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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 🫰
April 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
📢 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
And, of course, the actual materials we use during the meetups are all in there, as well as links to previous and upcoming events. There will be more eventually, I'm thinking of putting together a 'co-create' page at the very least.
March 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Maybe a post will follow one day with screenshots from all the iterations. For now, here is a version with 2 x dark variations and 2 x light variations - because of course I couldn't settle on just one 'vibe' after all. Refresh and toggle for different random options ☺️.
March 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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.
[cross-post]
March 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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 💜
February 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Happening this Saturday in London. Unreasonably long tutorial is ready~ 👾
February 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Two of the loves of my life 💛🖤🫰
February 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Here's one more of the pen plotter in action 😂
January 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
✨Meetup #3 for c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social last Saturday. So lovely to see people turn up, engage, create and laugh together. Our first guest speakers @ajith.is and @wherepritiis.bsky.social put in so much effort, it felt like a professional conference. Thank you so much, see you next time! <3
January 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🔊 New piece on cozy games! 🎊

Possibly winning the title of my fave piece at Reuters to have worked on. Brilliant team, thank you so much for letting me be your code monkey 😭
Now go play the game & be cozy! And please plant a catcus because these creatures warm my soul.

✨ Here is my cosy garden ✨
January 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Data art name+birth month generative flowers in Canvas and p5 for our meetup yesterday at @cccraftsspace.bsky.social
We used this OpenProcessing notebook 📓https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2466800

Not the cleanest code if you weren't there but should be a start!

#creativecoding #p5js #dataart
December 1, 2024 at 1:57 PM
🎤 Eurovision song explorer 🪩
A really fun piece & very collaborative team project at Reuters Graphics. Lets you dive into the entire history of Eurovision in songs w/ their characteristics.
⛏️Data art in d3.js
🔗 www.reuters.com/graphics/MUS...
November 27, 2024 at 11:02 AM
♾️ Infinity: an interactive explorer
A labour of love for half a year, going back to my roots in maths and rediscovering some of its beauty in the process. 💙💜💚
⛏️ React, three.js, R3F, GSAP, d3.js
#threejs #react #r3f #gsap #dataviz #creativecoding
🔗 maths-infinity.netlify.app
November 27, 2024 at 11:02 AM
🐈‍⬛ 💻 Quantum computing decrypted
High-level overview of how to make a (theoretical) quantum system do one’s bidding for an exponential speedup for one of the most widely-relied upon maths problems: prime number factorisation
⛏️ #threejs, #glsl, Svelte
Reuters Graphics 🔗 www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
November 27, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Recent work examples ✨
🦋 Generative interactive (via hand motion) voronoi-based dragonflies in #p5js
🔗 openprocessing.org/sketch/23379...
November 27, 2024 at 11:02 AM
👋 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
November 27, 2024 at 11:02 AM