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Welcome to the Creative-Coding-RAC-Fall-16 wiki!
My name is Jason Mandel and I am a New Media and Computer Science student at SUNY Purchase and this is Creative Coding, a class I am teaching this Fall at the Rye Arts Center. In this class students will get a feel for what it's like to create art with code. The fundamentals of working with computers to make art will be discussed and applied through a variety of projects.
Through programming explorations and more, interesting and fun concepts will be brought forth through the lens of creative projects. Example projects include a goofy meme generator, an animated robot, and a custom “glitchy” video effects filter. We will be exploring the Java language as well as fundamental programming concepts using Processing, an Open Source developing platform that was born at MIT, and maintained by a large and ever growing, friendly community of Educators, Artists, Architects, and enthusiasts including faculty at NYU, UCLA, and SUNY Purchase among many many others. Also, did I mention that Processing is free and will run on any machine? You can download it here #awesome #sick. So with that said, all supplies in this class are included.
Here are some examples of interesting projects powered by tools like Processing and others. Very special thank you to my awesome professor, Tega Brain and to Golan Levin Director of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and Associate Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art CMU for providing these examples.
- Chris O’Shea, Hand From Above
- Theo Watson & Emily Gobeille, Weather Worlds
- Karolina Sobecka, Sniff
- Kyle McDonald & Arturo Castro, Face Substitution
- Vera-Maria Glahn & Marcus Wendt (Field.io), Enegy Flow
Students will be using this page to share their work and collaborate with other students on their projects. GitHub is a fantastic and useful tool for collaborating with others on projects. It's used by millions of professionals, educators, students and is one of the most popular project distribution platform on the planet!
Here is a great Introduction to Git and GitHub by Daniel Shiffman
Stay tuned for more updates and course syllabus documentation! If someone has any questions about this class please feel free to reach out to me at jasonmandel@ryeartscenter.org
Some, good old fashion advice from John Cage, provided by Tega Brain
