In 2020, Price Lab's week-long digital humanities training institute Dream Lab was canceled due to safety concerns around COVID-19. We created this series of podcasts not as a replacement, but rather to introduce you to some of the people who make Dream Lab such a great experience!

Programming is notoriously goal-oriented: if there is a problem you work to solve it. Creative coding is different. Rather than look for a solution, creative coding asks, what happens if coding is a tool to explore and play. In this episode, Dr. Mark Sample discusses his approach to creative coding. Hint- it includes twitter bots and Walt Whitman!

This episode was produced and edited by Maria Kiamesso DaSilva with assistance from Sarah Milinski.The music used in this episode was sourced from royalty-free music libraries. The artists featured in this episode are Blue Dot Sessions and Poddington Bear.