Creative Code Tilburg — Edition 1
9 October 2026 · LocHal, Tilburg
The first edition of the Creative Code Tilburg meetup took place and we had the following people do a show and tell.
Mark Smith
Gave an introduction and short demonstration of the web based software called cables.gl which allows people to create realtime interactive visual experiences inside of the web browser.
Created patches can then be exported and embedded in existing web pages such as the Creative Code Tilburg webpage. The software allows people to use ops / nodes which allows creative works without having to code anything.
Mark also gave a presentation on using the AI agent Grok Build to write new applications and software for the last few months. He explained how he'd used the AI agent to build the Creative Code Tilburg webpage and his own personal webpage without writing one line of code by hand.
One of the major turning points was the agent solving a programming problem in an application that he and multiple developers had struggled to solve for over 4 years. The AI agent solved the problem in under an hour and he was able to finish the project within 1 week.
Personal Website
Cables.gl
Cables.gl tutorials
Grok Build
Matteo Volonterio
Matteo shared some of his work and experiments using physical installations and AI tools.
We saw a video of his interactive installation which was a hybrid mix between live growing fungi and electronic sensors which registered the presence of visitors and the bio organism itself to affect the installation. It was shown at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven.
He then showed a video which used actual filmed footage with backgrounds of nature which then underwent a process using AI tools to add Invasive Creatures which didn't exist.
Instagram
Synthetic Biology Installation
Invasive Creatures Video
Jelle Goossens
Jelle gave a presentation about networking. His interest started many years ago at home, with security and with the question of how devices actually work. He became interested in how much people rely on big tech, and in how little attention is given to the equipment used every day on networks at home and in public.
He talked through the path that followed. He set up a basic firewall PC, then moved on to networking switches, including programmable switches, and learned how to configure them. From there his research turned to Internet of Things devices, and to how much data they can send when they call home. Over the years that work became a practice: he now also works as a network engineer without a formal education in the field.
His main work is his Dolby Atmos studio, where he works as an audio mixing and mastering engineer. That studio practice also uses the networking techniques he has learned. For him, making a private network is a creative process. The aim is a network that does what he wants it to do, and that reduces his reliance on big tech. At home that has included Home Assistant, security systems, and local AI models. Microphones send speech to a local AI server, which then carries out actions on the network, such as turning on lights. He would like to come back in the future with more to show, and to demonstrate how people can learn to set up their own networks.