About time someone did this.

Hello World! Processing is a documentary on creative coding that explores the role that ideas such as process, experimentation and algorithm play in this creative field featuring artists, designers and code enthusiasts. Based on a series of interviews to some of the leading figures of the Processing open programming platform community, the documentary is built itself as a continuous stream of archived references, projects and concepts shared by this community.

It is the first chapter of a documentary series on three programming languages -Processing, Open Frameworks and Pure data- that have increased the role of coding in the practice of artists, designers and creators around the world. The series explores the creative possibilities expanded by these open source tools and the importance of their growing online communities.

Mrt Break Down

Not too long ago I discovered a local studio that specializes in data visualization and I was pretty excited about them and the work they did. You might have seen one of their works during the General Elections period, http://ge.swarm.is/. And the work that caught my attention, the Mrt Breakdown series. Curious about this studio and the man behind it, I got to work and managed to contact Yin Shanyang, the man behind Swarm Studio.
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Collider, work in progress (Eyeo 2012) from flight404 on Vimeo.

Another amazing work from Robert Hodgin aka flight404.

Read more about it from roberthodgin.com/eyeo-2012

DIN is noise is a software synthesizer that tears the domination of the notation system apart. In its microtonal keyboard, every pixel is a tone that stretches from 20 Hz – 20 kHz . DIN is part graphical interface and part live coding, offering the flexibility to switch between the command mode and gui. Very exciting if you ask me, unfortunately, it only works in GNU/Linux.

Download DIN at http://dinisnoise.org
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Codeable Objects is a library for Processing that enables novice coders, designers and artists to rapidly design, customize and construct artifacts using geometric computation and digital fabrication. (more…)

 
Invisible City is a result of a workshop in The Master of Advanced Studies in CAAD at ETH in Zurich, not much information is given on this but it is probably a processing workshop that looks at generative processes in architecture/urbanism.
This particular work looks at a generative approach in city planning and it does seem really interesting to me.
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Alvin Chua a.k.a Alvin.C is a creative technologist and PhD student at KU Leuven, Belgium. Interestingly, we went to the same schools (Temasek Design School, Interactive Media Design and Lasalle College of the Arts, Interactive Arts) and the same courses. Being one of the rare few who managed to make the transition from designer to creative programmer, researcher in singapore, I invited him to share his experiences with us.

 
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Matthias Dörfelt mokafolio.de

Selective Memory Theatre is a machine-like perception and memory installation, that thematises the desire to teach the non-forgetting digital memory to forget. It thereby covers the selectionistic nature of the individual mind, that marks the human sensing and remembering as the subjective and biased – but therefore human and functional – act that it is. The installation consists of two projections, the perception and the memory layer. Both will be explained in what follows.

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Movies as Code is a website translating movies into seemingly useless lines of codes.

Geeky? Funny? or poetics? Tell me what you think. Below is based on the movie Inception.

<?php
class Dream
{
const DREAM_LEVEL = 1;
public function goToSleep() {
try {
$this->goDeeper( self::DREAM_LEVEL );
} catch (MyException $e) {
throw new Exception(“You’re actually in the middle of the workshop right now, sleeping”);
}
}
protected function goDeeper($dreamLevel) {
try{
$dreamLevel+=1;
$this->goDeeper($dreamLevel);
} catch (MyException $e) {
throw new Exception(‘Your world is not real!’);
}
}
}
$alfredo = new Dream;
try{
$alfredo->goToSleep();
} catch (Inception $kick) {
echo ’Think about it ‘.$kick->getName().’, how did you get here?’;
}
?>