http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog www.abstractmachine.net is a code|art project initiated by Douglas Edric Stanley. It explores the relationships between algorithms and art. Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:01:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Quick post to link up to the Gamerz 05 video that just went live and where you'll find a few seconds of my bitPong installation. I also shot my own video of the piece, in which I take advantage of this little known device called a tripod, but since I ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/video-gamerz05/ Machine: twothousandten Concept+Development: Douglas Edric Stanley Play! http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/twothousandten/ Workshop: Mobilité Location: Atelier Hypérmedia + Atelier 3D + Méta Atelier, l'École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence Dates: 30 November - 1 December 2009 Organizers: Ricardo Garcia, Douglas Edric Stanley, Jean-Paul Thibeau Conference: Thierry Marcou + Fing, « Villes 2.0 », 30 November 2009 Development assistance: Memo Akten, Gonzague Defos de Rau, Grégoire Lauvin Today we began our ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/ofxiphonemapkit/ Installation: bitPong Concept + Development: Douglas Edric Stanley Development Platforms: Processing, Wiring Location: Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence (map) Festival: Gamerz.05 Dates: 26 november - 4 december 2009 Times: 10h - 13h / 14h - 17h I have finally found a venue to show a decent working version of bitPong, a piece I created some time ago when I ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/bitpong/ Presentation: Memo Akten Location: Atelier Hypermédia, l'École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence Time + Date: 14h00 | Friday 20 november 2009 Website: Mega Super Awesome Visuals Company Memo Akten is currently working in the Atelier Hypermédia in preparation for the Mobility Workshop in December where we will be using (amongst other things) iPhones for their GPS ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/memo/ MCD has just annouced the publication of WJ-Spots #1 - 15 Years of Artistic Creation on the Internet. It is a billingual (French/English) publication. As readers of this blog might have noticed, I participated a few months back in Anne Roquiny's WJ-S project at the Maison des métallos, Paris. For those ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/wj-spots-print-edition/ I'm posting this a bit late, but for some reason I totally missed this video. It's a summary of some of the sound objects built by François Parra's students in our joint sound-hypermedia mini-course for second year students. This year we split the two-week class into two: in the first ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/sound-objects/ Installation: « Bohlen's Experiment No.1 » Concept+Development: Douglas Edric Stanley Technical platform: OpenFrameworks + PaulStretch + Arduino Event: 8° Encontro Internacional de Arte e Tecnologia Exhibtion: « Instinto computacional » Curator: Suzete Venturelli Location: UNB Gallery (September 2009) / Museu Nacional da República (TBA) Lecture: 08:00 - 09:00 Friday September 18, 2009 After some complications actually getting into the country, I am ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/temporal-divergence/ Conference : Création : de l'idée à sa réalisation -- Comment artistes et techniciens travaillent-ils ensemble ? Speakers : Mathieu Audejean et Angela Frères (Les Fabricateurs / Panem et circenses), Pierre Andrac et Jany Jérémie (Lieux publics et Cie), Douglas Edric Stanley (École des beaux arts d'Aix-en-Provence) Moderator : Marc Voiry Conference series ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/sirenes-et-blablabla/ Presentation: WJ-Spots #1 Speakers: Aliette Guibert, Agnès de Cayeux, Anne Laforet, Anne-Marie Morice, Annick Rivoire, Annie Abrahams, Antoine Schmitt, Bruno Alacoque, Albertine Meunier, Christophe Bruno, Cyrille Thomas, David Guez, David-Olivier Lartigaud, Douglas Edric Stanley, Elisabeth Klimoff, Emmanuel Verges, Eléonore Hellio, Erik Minkkinen, Etienne Cliquet, Fred Forest, Grégoire Courtois aka Troudair, Gregory ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/wj-s/ Conférence: Simon Doury, Béatrice Lartigue, Étienne Mineur, Douglas Edric Stanley Exhibition: « Code_source » Venue: L'encroyable, Entrepôt de la Sernam, Chaumont When: Saturday, 16 May 2009, 19h30 Festival: Féstival international de l'affiche et du graphisme de Chaumont, 2009 Article: Étapes:168 On Saturday, I'll be speaking at « code_source », an exhibit organized by Etienne Mineur (cf. Incandescence) ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/code_source/ For all the English readers out there, I'm sorry, but this one's going to be en français: the land of « Liberté Égalité Fraternité » is yet again dangerously close to passing what many have been calling a « liberticidal » law, but that might more aptly called a « future-art-killer ». Two days ago, a film ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/declaration-de-guerre/ Visualizer: Zzzz (a.k.a. « Bonne nuit les tweets ») Concept & Development: Douglas Edric Stanley Development platform: Built with Processing Search Engine: Twitter Search algorithm: TwitterSearch Zzzz (a.k.a. Bonne nuit les Tweets, a.k.a. Goodnight Sweet Tweets, ...) is a Twitter visualizer built in Processing that tracks Twitterers as they count their electric sheep. It grabs the ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/goodnight-sweet-tweets/ Master of Arts HES-SO in Design Media Design / Spaces & Communication Institution: Haute École d'Art et de Design Genève Duration: October 2009 - June 2011 Deadline for applications: 29 May, 2009 I have been invited to take part in a new department at the Haute École d'Art et de Design Genève exploring the emerging ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/media-design/ Pinguino Processing Library: Pinguino_01.zip Authors: Stéphane Cousot, Jean-Pierre Mandon, Douglas Edric Stanley Hardware: Pinguino, Jean-Pierre Mandon Last week, Stéphane Cousot wrote a basic library for communicating between Processing and Pinguino. While you've probably heard of Processing before (since you're reading this blog) you've almost certainly never heard of Pinguino. It's one of the ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/pinguino-processing-library/ Some time has passed since my Invaders! installation started something of a $#!¥storm back in August at the Leipzig Games Convention. I tried to give the piece some context and gave a few interviews to responsible journalists, but ultimately the whole thing just blew up as people lost all sense ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/invaders-video/ I just noticed that an interview I conducted a few days ago has gone up on Weecast: Interview de Douglas Edric Stanley, professeur d’art numérique. It's in French (désolé pour ceux qui n'en parlent pas) and it handles the usual suspects (code, teaching, gaming, and on-line tutorials). As it turns out, ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/ethical-dilemma/ Attraction: Henniraof Design & Development: Lola & Douglas Edric Stanley Festival: Eniarof 0.4 Dates: 27 + 28 March, 2009 Times: 18:00 - 24:00 Location: l'École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence Software: Henniraof (Mac OS X only) Development platform: OpenFrameworks Antonin Fourneau and I are gearing up for the next Eniarof which begins construction next Monday and will open March 27th ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/horse-simulator/ Andy Best had a fun idea last week: write Processing sketches inside of a tweet. Here's his original tweet promoting the idea: @peterkirn How about a whole processing sketch in 140 characters?, and his first attempt: int c,f;void setup(){size(640,480);c=0;f=255;colorMode(HSB);}void draw(){background(color(c,f,f));ellipse(320,240,c,c);c=(c++>255)?0:c;}. He then posted some more on his Twitter feed as well ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/p5-tweets/ Exhibition: Festival Gamerz 04 Curators: Isabelle Arvers, Quentin Destieu, Romain Senatore Production: M2F Créations / Dardex Mort2Faim Sites: La scène numérique (Seconde Nature), l'École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence, Galérie Sextius, Aix-en-Provence, France Dates: 6 January - 8 February 2009 Time: 14h-19h Artists: Lionnel Scoccimaro (Fr), Axel Stockburger (At), France Cadet (Fr), Pascal Silondi (Cz), Colson Wood (USA) & Monsieur Moo (Fr), Antonin ... http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/festival-gamerz-04/