Friday, April 11th 2014, Stammtisch #7

https://www.meetup.com/opentechschool-berlin/events/176008652/

• http://onehumanheartbeat.com
• Heart chamber orchestra

Abe Pazos

• http://hamoid.tumblr.com
• http://funprogramming.org (again ^_^) @fun_pro

Jip

• DJ Product concept

Anaisa Franco

• http://anaisafranco.com/

Carolina

• http://cloaque.org/tagged/binary

Jack Rusher

• http://picdinner.com/hnzWppFNv79jZp4B5

References

• 2014 animated gif tournament .
• GifPop : Tool to make custom cards from animated gifs.
• Hype : Processing framework to do more with less code. Expressive and powerful, but one may forget how to write “real” Processing / Java code.
• Quil: ties together Processing and Clojure.
• Rafael Lozano-Hemmer : Electronic artist. Architecture + performance art.
• ChucK: Music programming language
• Light Table: code editor, enables live coding with p5.js.
• p5.js : successor of Processing.js, beta planned for spring 2014.

What’s up this month?
Art & tech

• Unnumbered Sparks by Janet Echelman & Aaron Koblin
• The new trailer for CLOUDS, an Open Source interactive documentary movie about creative coding
• Permanent deviation is an online Exquisite corpse Processing sketch
• People on the OpenKinect mailing list are starting to experiment with the Kinect V2
• Impressive image recognition solution using deep learning on a smartphone.
• The Resonate festival happened in Belgrade. We’ll try a quick debriefing :)

Events in Berlin

• (Last chance to see) Quayola’s Captives exhibition will end tomorrow (12th of April).
• Scope Sessions #31, at Panke, Wedding (Thursday 10th at 20:00).
• The A MAZE festival celebrates the convergence of games and art. April 9th to 11th.

Articles and interviews

• Interview of James Faure Walker about digital art (as in painting, not programming)
• Interview with Moritz Stephaner about data visualization which contains some useful insight about storytelling.
• A rant about post-internet art: http://culturetwo.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/why-i-hate-post-internet-art/
• A missed one from February: the list of nominated artists for the Prix Ars Electronica in the Creme de la Creme category.
• … and an interesting reaction from Rafael Lozano-Hemmer on the “Pioneer and Visionnary” category which led the organizers to re-open the nomination process.

The references were taking to much space so I opened another hackpad on the history of computer art.