I spent a ton of time this year writing about "Code Art" from the olden times to the present. I'm going to share some of the bibliography for the olden stuff over the next few days... for fun :)
Casey REAS
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Casey REAS
@REAS
Artist and co-director of UCLA Social Software. Co-founder of Feral File, Processing Foundation, and Processing
- Ben and I have worked on Processing for nearly 17 years. How and why did we start? Hereโs โThe History of Processingโ in ~3600 words: medium.com/@ProcessingOrgโฆ @ben_fry
- We don't have "generative art" in 2022 without long and rich histories of computer art, video synthesis, cybernetics, experimental film and animation, conceptual art, collage, centuries of drawing and painting... +++++ it's all on the table, all the time...
- "Generative art refers to any art practice where the artist uses a system, such as a set of natural language rules, a computer program, a machine, ... which is set into motion with some degree of autonomy contributing to or resulting in a completed work of art." โGalanter, 2003
- I'm teaching a ten-week introduction to coding with Processing for artists and designers. All of the materials are online if you'd like to follow: classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall20/28/
- [ Speculative Announcement ] The first Generative Video/Animation Festival. 2019. Los Angeles. Possible categories: documentary, short, feature, infinite, interactive. Who's in?
- ๐ Ben has written and maintained the core Processing source code (libraries and editor) for 21+ years now. He has created free and open software that is used by students, artists, technologists, and +++ around the ๐ @ben_fry @ProcessingOrg processing.org
- My Software Structures (2004) is on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in "Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965โ2018" whitney.org/exhibitions/prโฆ @whitneymuseum
- New processing.org! I'll be forever grateful to @designsystemsin for donating their time to make this happen. It's been a beautiful collaboration and my Perl scripts from the early 2000s are finally retired!
- I'm researching "generative art" on "social media" with a focus on the ~present. Who's doing the most interesting work in this space? Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, OpenProcessing, etc. What do you think? #generativeart #generative #creativecoding #p5t
- .@ProcessingOrg has been hard at work on the Processing Community Catalog, a hardcover 900+ page book with over 600 pages contributed by community members. Available through the annual fundraiser: donorbox.org/processingfounโฆ #supportP5
