178 - Developers Developers Developers

This week’s topic comes from Flora Miranda: ... how you choose which programmer fits for which project. Rafaël, you work with the same person for most of your works, but work with 2 more as you told in the last episode. How do you select these people? Regarding skillset, do you even know enough about the skills/technology to be able to judge if they are the right fit? Regarding past work, do you judge if they have worked with artist before or would you also work with a programmer who is totally new to the creative world? Personal level, how do you have to click with them personally, do you judge according to 'would I have coffee with this person'? And same question to Jeremy, of course. I think in your organisational experience, you must have seen things happening daily. And also when installing AR exhibitions... Furthermore, I would love to hear stories of when things went wonderfully fruitful with programmers, how programmers have inspired your thinking. But also, when the knowledge was far apart from each other, you picked the 'wrong person' or just any other failed operations. Also, where can one find programmers for art projects? Is it even possible to pay them, as there might be a big wage gap between artists and programmers?  What about yourselves? Do you program? If not, have you not naturally picked up some code-thinking over the years?  Let's demystify the 'programmer'! :) Flora Miranda https://floramiranda.com/