Valenzuela: Fringe creative coding communities will define what comes next in tech
Cristobal Valenzuela · No Priors Ep. 2 | With Runway ML’s Cristobal Valenzuela · May 1, 2023 · at 47:47
Runway ML co-founder Cristobal Valenzuela discusses which cultural movements and fringe subcultures will shape the future direction of technology and generative media.
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“I think for me if you apply that same kind of like principle now, I would tend to look a lot at like the weirdos of tech, right? People who are at the fringes, people who have, who've been always considered like, oh, you're just toying around. This is like a big experiment. Like there's a lot of coding, creative coding communities and People from experimenting with codes as art. There's like a lot of conferences and these communities of people like Babycastles in New York or WordHack or like Ayo or you have all this, they're just like interesting, just art. It's just very, very, very highly creative and niche. I think those folks will define a lot of what we'll see next in tech.”
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