Reference
19/02/2013 / Tutorials
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Choosing the right type of camera for your interactive installation is one of the most important technical choices you can make in your initial planning phases. Making the incorrect choice can really impact how well your installation reacts to ...
"The main change in the design process achieved by using generative design is that traditional craftsmanship recedes into the background, and abstraction and information become the new principal elements." Thus reads a rather pertinent nugget of wisdom tucked into the ...
04/12/2012 / Processing
A collaboration between Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Mark Sample, Noah Vawter and Casey Reas, 10 PRINT is a book about a one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program. The book takes this single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 and uses it ...
In 1958, the American physicist William Higinbotham created what is one of the first instances of what we would today call a modern "video game". The game, named Tennis For Two, was built at the Brookhaven National Laboratory for their ...
25/09/2012 / iPad
Created by 32Bits Criações Digitais with Itaú Cultural and Associação Cultural o Mundo de Lygia Clark, this iPad app recreates Lygia Clark’s “Livro-Obra” (wiki), published in 1983 but through a new interface that reinterprets its manipulable structures, textures and finishings. Most ...
28/08/2012 / Arduino, Javascript, Objects
Created by Waldek Węgrzyn at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, "Electrolibrary" is a project that connects a custom made paper book to the computer, so it can be used as an an interface. The book can be browsed as ...
Eyeo, eyeo, eyeo – well, where to begin? At the best of times providing an overarching review of a festival is an exercise in exclusion and cobbling together a vague impression of the second edition of Eyeo is no exception. ...
Indie Game: The Movie, directed by Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky, has been released and available for download and your viewing pleasure. The film looks at the underdogs of the video game industry, indie game developers, sharing their lifelong dreams ...
02/09/2011 / News
Below is a very early digital 3D rendered film (possibly the first one, ever). It was created in 1972 by Ed Catmull (the founder of Pixar) and Fred Parke with a little help from Robert B. Ingebretsen.
The best part of this film ...
An artist with a background in DJ-ing, electronic music, and visuals for clubs in Japan and now all over the world, Daito Manabe tends to make virtual things real, rather than vice versa. One of the things that I find ...
Grey Walter’s robotic tortoises ELSIE
Usman Haque has, on several occasions, made the observation that there is an important difference between interactivity and responsiveness (see for example -pdf). A responsive system is a fundamentally linear set of relations, a kind of ...
A Philosophy of Computer Art is a text that may interest some readers of creativeapplications.net as it covers the intersection of computing and art, discussing some of the classics of interactive art, and doing a lot of thinking about what ...
14/09/2010 / iPhone
Published by Penguin, myFry is an iPhone application allowing you to interactively explore Stephen Fry's autobiography, titled "The Fry Chronicles" (released yesterday).
Instead of doing something rather prosaic like reproducing the printed book on a touchscreen (though the whole book is here, every ...
31/08/2010 / News, Processing
From September 2010, myself with CreativeApplications.Net will be the curator of the online exhibition of projects on Processing.org. It's a great privilege and pleasure to contribute to the almost 10 year old open source project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. ...
08/05/2010 / iPad
Created by Phaidon, 200 years of design classics is now available on the iPad. The application offers access to an encyclopedic, illustrated history of 1,000 timeless designs by not only renowned designers, such as Marcel Breuer, Achille Castiglioni, Le Corbusier, ...
Begotten is an iPhone application created by Matthieu Cherubini during the Mobilizing Wokshop in Geneva earlier this year.The application is based on the somewhat disturbing movie Begotten made in 1991 by E. Lias Mehrige. It includes a large map which ...
22/04/2010 / iPhone
Faust (German title: Faust – Eine deutsche Volkssage) is a silent film produced in 1926 by UFA, directed by F.W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, Camilla Horn as Gretchen/Marguerite, Frida Richard as her mother, Wilhelm Dieterle as her brother ...
It's a pleasure to announce to CAN readers that this amazing project I have been working on for the past year is now live and ready for your perusal. The Archigram Archival Project [AAP] makes the work of the seminal ...


































