Frosti from zenbullets on Vimeo.
I’ve just discovered this gorgeous generative art piece ‘Frosti: Deterministic Generative Art’ (music from Bjork) from Zen Bullets aka Matt Pearson, based right here in Brighton. Check out his blog and other sites including 100 abandoned artworks, featuring some processing experiments with source code included. There’s also some articles worth reading [...]
For the Social Media and Creative Flow project, some elements are still looking pretty open ended and although the ideas are flowing, nothing is formalised for either the group Creative Flows project or my individual project. As I’ve been researching I’ve been bookmarking articles and sites of interest via Delicious.com.
Using this blog post, I’ve organised [...]
The MA DMA students were treated to a talk at the new V&A Digital Pioneers Exhibition with Honor Beddard, last week. Digital Pioneers celebrates the impact of the computer in art in the last 50 or so years.
Digital Pioneers is one of the outcomes of The Computer Art and Technocultures Project, which is a major [...]
January 18, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Tags: digital art, flash, generative art
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Finally got around to producing some basic generative pieces using Flash ActionScript 3.0, the paintbrush tool and the fab Kuler for colour palettes – my first digital painting of sorts. These are the first results in mark making using the brush tool. The idea is simply to use shape, colour and tints to produce a [...]
At last Tuesday’s lecture with Chris Hales, Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Interactive Film at SMARTlab, we explored the idea of interactive cinema and the interactive film narrative. Analysis of audience response to many of these films formed part of his practice-based PhD ‘Rethinking the Interactive Movie’ (2006). Chris also explores the wider historical context of [...]
December 28, 2009 - 3:41 pm
Tags: decode, digital art, digital artists, digital media arts, flash, interactivity, kids activities, processing, science museum, v and a
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As a Christmas treat I took my 7 year old son Zac to visit the Decode exhibition at the V & A in London. The V & A is one of my favourite museums and all the exhibitions I’ve seen there have always been really well executed. Kids go free and as a student the [...]
November 4, 2009 - 8:43 pm
Tags: digital art, flash, pen and ink
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November 3, 2009 - 5:33 pm
Tags: emotion, IxD
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http://creativity-online.com/news/on-interaction-design/136614
Note to self…explore further. Now I must go and teach my Photoshop class.
Having now started designing my long awaited website, beginning as a template in Photoshop, I’ve trawled through some of good and the bad designer portfolios on the web. Flash? CSS? HTML? I’ve come to the conclusion that simplicity is the key for not only ease of navigation but also to get your message across. Clearly, [...]
