Friday, June 6th 2014, Stammtisch #9

https://www.meetup.com/opentechschool-berlin/events/186589832/

Raphaël de Courville
Various videos suggested by Abe, picked from the FutureLearn Creative Coding Online Course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ivaQf1jns0

Ramin Soleymani
Ramin shows his latest emoji projects. “Mixed feelings” alternates between face emojis split in the middle horizontally; the eyes of one emoji and the mouth of another emoji put together create a new hybrid emotion.
emorain

http://raminsp5vs.tumblr.com/post/83731882514/emorain

washing machine (a few and short, KURZWÄSCHE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv30fPxYtWU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv30fPxYtWU
More: http://raminsp5vs.tumblr.com/
hihi

Marcus Morba
Just found this: http://interaktivehaikus.com/de
Very interesting call for interactive shortform content by NFB and ARTE. Hand in five pages of concept for a 60 sec. interactive project, which can be financed with 12.000 C$.

Also superawesome: https://vimeo.com/84658886
https://github.com/genekogan/KinectProjectorToolkit

Christopher
http://halgrimmur.tumblr.com/

Abe Pazos
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/creative-coding

Other references
Sobel filtering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobel_operator
A Short History of Nearly Everything: http://www.amazon.com/A-Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/076790818X
John Tukey about the evolution of display sytems: http://stat-graphics.org/movies/prim9.html
Preview of group exhibition with Casey Reas: http://www.dam-gallery.de/

What’s up this month?

Reading and watching
Karsten Schmidt talking about his current and past work: http://youtu.be/tKIVJ2TaS2k?t=20m9s
That robot dancer / art installation by Jordan Wolfson :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSFP6JHnn9c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ivaQf1jns0
The new Leap Motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXghYjh6Gro

Code
Polycode: C++ and Lua based creative coding framework: http://polycode.org/ (github)
thi.ng: recent work from Karsten Schmidt (toxiclibs), based on Clojure: https://github.com/thi-ng/ https://github.com/thi-ng/luxor/

Learning
Free creative coding MOOC from Monash University, 3h/week, starts June 2nd: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/creative-coding