Processing

As the next step in the exploration of the ideas behind the Dada Photo Booth, Adam and I reworked the project for showing at the Museum of Human Achievement during the 2018 East Austin Studio Tour. Responding to a call for artists working with the concepts around taking selfies, we intended to directly transplant our piece into one of about 30 stations in a selfie gauntlet. Personally, I was looking forward to the challenge of architecting and coding a stand-alone, self-service iteration of the Dada Photo Booth. However, once we received the requirements and context around the selfie gauntlet, it became clear that this would be an exercise in doing more with less coding. ...

An Inscrutable Representation of Yourself tumblr | source code, v1 | source code, Electron client and server developer, artistic collaborator Designed and developed as a final project for dadageek’s course on creating generative art using Processing. Presented at the Fall 2016 Dadageek Student Showcase, which was part of EAST. Tech Stack Go and Go OpenCV binding for image capture and cropping Processing for image manipulation [i.e. making the art] Gifsicle for generating and compressing gifs Ruby for posting to Tumblr and local file cleanup Reincarnated as an experience using p5.js for 2018 EAST. Read more about it on the blog.

Learning about the random function in Processing is evoking the same feeling I had when I first learned about HTML’s <blink> tag.