Ada Lovelace is a really interesting character
in large part because she paid a really high
cost for her genius. They put her on drugs,
they heavily doped her on laudanum and essentially
she died very very young and a lot of that
was because they thought that a woman back
in that time shouldn't have a mathematical
mind and they put her in a position where
they classified her genius as mental illness.
I almost consider it our obligation at this
point to kind of occupy the field and sort
of make it our own and turn it into a place
where we are welcome and where other women
are welcome and it is our responsibility to
do that because nobody else is going to do
that and technology really is the most important
material of our society and if we allow one
kind of person and one kind of narrative to
dominate the technological devices and interfaces
which get created we're going to have sub-optimal
solutions. Code Liberation Foundation is an
organisation that teaches women to program
games and creative applications for free.
We have been running for about four years
now, we started at NYU in New York and we're
still operational there and now we're opening
a London branch which is very exciting. It's
a really lovely environment, it's creating
a community of women that can foster each
other and help each other grow, also it's
building a professional network, which is
really exciting. If you're interested in learning
to make video games or you want to learn how
to make creative applications, you can come
find me here at Goldsmiths which is awesome,
I have open booking hours, I'll see anyone.
So my booking hours are just at phoenixperry.youcanbook.me
and I really welcome anyone to come into my
office, ask me questions, see me about things
they might want to build or make or about
the programs we have here on campus.
