Sabine Faller & Barbara Zoé Kiolbassa
Creative CoderSabine Faller (StExII) is a trainee with the department of Museum Communication at the ZKM | Centre for Arts and Media Karlsruhe, where her main focus is on projects and workshops with children, youth and adults. She studied Art and German in the teacher training programme of the University of Education in Freiburg. She has since worked as a freelance media educator and editor for ALEX Offener Kanal Berlin, the academic institute of the youth welfare organisation Freiburg (Wissenschaftliches Institut des Jugendhilfswerk Freiburg e.V.) and the Lernradio PH 88,4 Freiburg, in particular.
Barbara Zoé Kiolbassa M.A. is a trainee with the department of Museum Communication at the ZKM | Centre for Arts and Media Karlsruhe, where her main focus is on projects and guided tours with youth and adults. She studied History, Art History and Media Sciences at Tübingen University and spent one year at the Université de Aix-Marseille before interning at the Hafnarhús Art Museum in Reykjavík. In 2015 she helped organise the GENERATE!° Festival of Electronic Arts in Tübingen, and has co-organised several exhibitions and projects since.
Creative Coding: How Art Education and Code Go Together is an educational research initiative co-developed by Sabine Faller and Barbara Zoé Kiolbassa within the museum mediation department at ZKM | Karlsruhe. The project explores how computer programming can be integrated into art education not merely as a technical tool, but as an expressive artistic medium comparable to traditional fine arts. Through hands-on creative coding workshops and open-source toolkits, the initiative demonstrates how algorithmic thinking fosters artistic experimentation, making digital programming accessible, reflective, and relevant within cultural and educational institutions.