Dear AoIR colleagues, We are pleased to share details of the livestream for an upcoming hybrid event at the University of Warwick: Convivial Code: The Politics and Pedagogy of Vibe Coding Thursday 14 May 2026 11:00-12:00 BST FAB Media Lab, University of Warwick / Online Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJkPO7IcDBk&list=PLT8RYjoW2HR6adA7QFpy3ubcMX... Organised by the Centre for Digital Inquiry (CDI) in collaboration with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM), the event will open with a livestreamed public session on vibe coding, vectoral media and AI-augmented toolmaking. The session will feature a keynote lecture by David Berry (University of Sussex), with responses from Janna Joceli Omena (King's College London) and Bernhard Rieder (University of Amsterdam), followed by discussion. The event asks how conversational and agentic coding systems are changing programming, pedagogy and computational culture. 'Vibe coding' is often presented as a democratisation of software development, making programming more accessible to researchers, students and practitioners without formal computing backgrounds. Yet these systems also raise important questions about dependency, technical literacy, platform power, environmental cost, hidden labour, deskilling and the redistribution of expertise. Taking a cue from Ivan Illich's notion of convivial tools, the event asks what a politics of convivial code might look like today. Can AI-assisted programming support technodiversity and critical technical practice? Or does it risk reproducing and accelerating existing exclusions, concentrations of power and forms of proletarianisation? The public livestream forms part of a wider hybrid workshop at Warwick combining discussion, studio-based experimentation and collective reflection. The day will also contribute toward a short publication on the politics and pedagogy of AI-assisted programming. We warmly invite AoIR colleagues to join us online for the livestream. Best wishes, Dr. Michael Dieter (he/him) | Associate Professor | Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) Director of Postgraduate Teaching | Convenor of MA in Digital Media and Culture Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Inquiry (CDI) Applications open for CIM’s degree programmes: MSc Big Data and Digital Futures<https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/pgdip-msc-big-data-digital-futures/> MA Digital Media and Culture<https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/ma-digital-media-culture/> MASc in Data Visualisation<https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/pgdip-masc-data-visualisation/> PhD Programmes at CIM<https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/phd-programmes/> University of Warwick | Coventry CV4 7AL