Bente van Bourgondiën (The Netherlands), After dissecting (and almost breaking) my first pc I realised I liked playing with computers. I landed an internship where I learned coding, and I also learned about this thing called Internet. It had about four commercial websites and a lot of crazy experiments with content, design, interaction and code. I felt immediately at home.

I have been working as a (web)developer ever since, both as a backend and as a frontend programmer. I have seen the field evolving from a place where everybody did everything to a place where highly specialised people form multidisciplinary teams.

By teaching coding at the academy I aim to bring students in touch with the experimental roots of web development, and thereby keeping it alive.

When I’m not teaching I develop interactive installations by combining touchscreens, webcams and mobile devices with sensors and servers.