You Make the Rules! and Reprogram the Cube! gave Bristol a taste of creative technology that you don’t trip over every day. Both events were Bristol’s contribution to the global Processing Community Day event with over 100 sister events around the world. Processing is an open source programming language originally designed for artists, but […]
From P5 to the GPU with Pixi.JS
This is an overview of a digital art project, that forced me to stray beyond p5.js 2d canvas and look to the GPU powered pixi.js library. See the finished project I wanted to create a work of digital art that represented cascades of neurons, simulating the flow of stimulation and inhibition that flows between neurons […]
BeHere: Many Mobiles Making Massive Moving Motifs
A digital installation across many mobile devices On and off over the past few months I have been hatching and nurturing an idea to use mobile devices to create a joined-up experience across several device screens; something that connects people and their devices in one place as a digital art project. Since discovering Processing, p5 and Dan […]
SeePilgrims Part1
This is the first of 3 blog posts about my Summer 2015 SeePilgrims interactive installation at a friend’s festival. Part 1 covers the motive and the result – what actually is it? Part 2 describes the components, technicalities and the design process I went through. Part 3 describes the experience of starting, finishing and exhibiting a […]
SeePilgrims Part2
Part 2 – A Semi-Technical Discussion The starting point for SeePilgrims was the Kinect library for Processing, as nicely outlined on Daniel Shiffman’s blog post on Processing and Kinect. As he explains, development of and access to the openNi library was stopped when Apple acquired the technology. This meant I never got very far […]
SeePilgrims Part3
Part 3: Developing SeePilgrims The decision to undertake an installation for the Pilgrims festival was a big one for me, in that the result was always going to be visible to others. Up to this point all my work was done purely for the act of learning, and possibly to submit to a narrow […]
Visual Delights
I’ve always been amazed at the artistic creations that are put on for festivals, more or less as disposable creations that will exist for the 3-4 days of the festival and yet which may have taken weeks of design and creation. They are always worth it. Last year I attended a friend’s mini, private festival […]
AI that even my flawed human brain can grok – just!
I have undertaken and completed a few MOOC’s now. Most successfully through Coursera, as the format works for me, the institutions, lectureres and materials are really high quality, and the real-time pacing (and pressure) has really motivated me. The subject that has had me stumped is AI – Artificial Intelligence. I started different courses, on […]
Pesky Robots
Musings on a day at the UK and Ireland FLL finals, Loughborough, 1st February 2015 The day starts fast, and stays fast. The Beechen Bots are back at Loughborough University for the FLL UK and Ireland National championships, following success last year that earned them a place in the OEC in Spain. There are 35 […]
Google DevArt and Digital Revolution
I got the chance in August to visit the Digital Revolution exhibition at the Barbican in London: a celebration of the history of digital media, art and a snapshot of the state of the digital arts in movies, music and pure digital art. I loved it so much visiting with the family, but couldn’t justify a […]