momentum.js: Integrating Generative Art and Timeline-Based Animation
momentum.js is a toolkit that brings generative art into the timeline of Adobe After Effects.
Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) Music Video – 20 Years Later
20 years since the release of Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) music video, its creator Stewart Smith shares his expanded writeup to mark the occasion.
Forty-Four Esolangs – The Art of Esoteric Code
Forty-Four Esolangs is a collection of Daniel Temkin's many approaches to esolangs—esoteric programming languages—showcasing the form’s limitless artistic potential.
Cellsº
Cells° is a creative coding framework for creating simple to complex interactive grid animations
Introduction to Sketching with Code
Torn between pop science and dense textbooks, Kynd writes an engaging 8-chapter (12k words) introductory guide for curious (code) beginners—sharing his understanding and ideas to spark curiosity and exploration.
Hyperthread: The intertwined histories of the Microchip and the Jacquard loom
Hyperthread explores the aesthetics of parametric chip design through the lens of the Jacquard Loom. It is based on public domain microchips and emulators that perform different functions such as a cryptographic key generator, a general purpose CP...
The Nature of Code (p5.js) – Daniel Shiffman
The Nature of Code is a beginner-friendly creative coding tutorial that explores a range of programming strategies for developing computer simulations of natural systems—from elementary concepts in math and physics to sophisticated machine-learnin...
Repeater – A feedback loop between a pen plotter and a pen digitizer
Repeater is a custom software that creates a feedback loop between a pen plotter and a pen digitizer. The process starts with the pen plotter tracing the description text. At the same time the software records and draws the text on the screen as c...
Software for Artists Book: In Poetic Coalition
This publication is a coalition — it brings together experiences of combined action. With a focus on labor organizing within the arts and tech industries, In Poetic Coalition explores the potential of creating alternative networks of education and...
HOLO 3 – Mirror Stage: Between Computability and Its Opposite
Guest editor Nora N. Khan and fifteen luminaries question our problematic faith in and deference to AI. Exploring the limits of knowledge, prediction, language, and abstraction in computation, their collected essays and artworks measure the gap be...
Far Away, a kinetic and lighting journey by Chevalvert
'Far Away' looks like a space exploration scene, materialized by 12 Sentinels in rotation, scanning the ground for a sign, a movement, a resource. These Sentinels, half scanners, half gyroscopes, activate under our eyes, in a cyclic ballet, minima...
Code as Creative Medium: A Teacher’s Manual: A Handbook for Computational Art and Design – Golan Levin, Tega Brain
This book is an essential resource for art educators and practitioners who want to explore code as a creative medium, and serves as a guide for computer scientists transitioning from STEM to STEAM in their syllabi or practice.
Eyeo Festival 2019 – Converge to Inspire
Don’t miss the 9th installment of this inspiring Creative Technology Conference.
OPENRNDR – Open source framework for creative coding for Kotlin
OPENRNDR is a tool to create tools. It is an open source framework for creative coding for Kotlin that simplifies writing real-time interactive software.
A Modern Prometheus – Processing Foundation
Casey Reas and Ben Fry reflect on the last 17 years of working on Processing in ~3600 words. A must read for all new and old to Processing.
Poetic Computation: Reader – Code as a form of poetry and aesthetic
Poetic Computation: Reader is an online-book about code as a form of poetry and aesthetic by Taeyoon Choi. Based on his lectures at the School for Poetic Computation, the book introduces the poetic aspects of computation and considers how engaging...
Weave/Wave – Visualising macro-structures of the collective
Created by Flower/Fu Dongting, weave/wave is an interactive artwork that converts portraits of visitors into a particle field that is used to construct a mirror image, one of data and sound.
What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing – Ed Finn
In What Algorithms Want, Ed Finn considers how the algorithm - in practical terms, "a method for solving a problem" - has its roots not only in mathematical logic but also in cybernetics, philosophy, and magical thinking.
HOLO 2 – If/Then: True Randomness and False Certainty
Thirteen multidisciplinary thinkers probe the ubiquity of randomness across culture and science. Considering markets, weather systems, evolutionary leaps, and world generation in videogames, the invited contributors trace the contours of chance, ‘...
Dear Data – Stefanie Posavec, Giorgia Lupi
Presenting their fifty-two cards, along with thoughts and ideas about the data-drawing process, Dear Data hopes to inspire you to draw, slow down and make connections with other people, to see the world through a new lens, where everything and any...
Processing: Creative Coding and Computational – Ira Greenberg
The book is intended as an introduction to programming for designers and artists using the Processing language and environment, a language designed ‘by artists for artists’ and available as open source.
50 Animations populate SFPC’s re-coded at Day for Night
In December 2015, SFPC were invited to participate at Day for Night festival in Houston, TX. SFPC co-founder Zach Lieberman, students from the fall 2015 session, and the larger SFPC community worked together to create ‘SFPC re-coded’, a project th...
Terrapattern – Neural network visual search tool for satellite imagery
Created by a Golan Levin, David Newbury, and Kyle McDonald, with the assistance of Golan's students at CMU, Terrapattern is a visual search tool for satellite imagery that provides journalists, citizen scientists, and other researchers with the ab...
Kadenze Names May the International Month of Creative Code
Kadenze offers the opportunity to learn creative coding from world renowned instructors and artists. Explore p5.js and the nature of code. Learn ChucK, JavaScript, and web coding. Turn your Arduino into a machine-learning controller.
Creative-coding on iOS with C4
This tutorial will introduce you to creative-coding on iOS with C4, a powerful framework for creating expressive artworks and user experiences. Written entirely in Swift, C4 takes a modern approach to working with animation, gestures and media.
Kadenze: The Future of Creative Education
Kadenze brings together the world’s leading educators, artists, and engineers to create an online community where we can learn art and creative technology. From generative graphics and creative coding to physical modeling synthesis for games and i...
IAM Weekend 16 – Barcelona, 7-10 Apr 2016
Internet Age Media announces the second edition of its annual encampment for digital future-thinking - IAM Weekend - connecting the dots between the people and stories defining the futures of media, education and internet culture.
The Jacob’s Ladder of coding — Karsten Schmidt
Anecdotes and questions about climbing up and down the ladder of abstraction: Atari, ARM, demoscene, education, creative coding, community, seeking lightness, enlightenment & strange languages.