New media elective at Purchase College.
Spring, 2016.
Tega Brain: tega.brain@purchase.edu
Room: Location: Humanities - Level 2, lab HUM 1054.
Office hours: Monday 3pm - 5pm. Make an appointment.
This intermediate creative coding studio explores techniques for creating dynamic, poetic and interactive artworks in code. Students will learn techniques to program movement, simulate lifelike movement and behaviors, and develop online and offline works that respond to various inputs. Projects will be developed using open source software environments like Processing and p5.js.
P5js is a new open source creative coding environment using the javascript programming language. It is a tool that adopts the philosophy and approach of Processing but takes it to the web. It is built by a diverse community of artists, designers and developers and supports the development creative, experimental and interactive projects in the context of the web. Visit the p5js site here.
Students will:
- Gain skills and experience using open source creative coding environments as a medium for art
- Develop poetic and critical experimental works in software
- Ccritically engage with historic and contemporary computational art practices
- Refine their personal learning strategies, project planning and problem solving skills
Nicholas Fong, Evolution Animated GIF
Week 1: 25 Jan
- Introductions and code as medium.
- Week 1 Tutorial: Git, Intro to p5js, and deliverables
- Remember there is a list of basic p5js examples here.
Week 2: 1 Feb
Week 3: 8 Feb
- (No lecture)
- Running a local server
- Overview of objects in Javascript
- Studio time - assignment 1 due for upload by midnight Monday
Conway's Game of Life
Week 4: 15 Feb
- Installation of lenticular exhibition (12.30-2.30)
- Documentation workshop
Week 5: 22 Feb
Week 6: 29 Feb (omg it's a leap year)
- Genetic Algorithms
- Vectors review again and Forces tutorial
Week 7: 7 Mar
- Particle systems
- Studio time
14 Mar: No class
21 Mar: No class
Kyle McDonald, 2015, Exhausting a Crowd.
Week 8: 28 Mar
- Assignment 2A due today
- Visiting artist Sam Lavigne and a live web workshop.
- Tutorial repository here!!
Week 9: Apr 4
- Another look: Art on the live web
- Studio and catch up
- Assignment 2B work to be submitted this week.
###Part 4: Seeing
Week 10: Apr 11
Week 11: Apr 18
- Final project proposal presentations
Week 12: Apr 25
- Studio time
Make up session: Apr 28
- Studio time
Week 14: May 2
- Final assignment presentations due in class
- Assignment 1 - Due Week 3
- Assignment 2A and 2B - Due Week 8
- Assignment 3 - Due Week 14