Daniel Shiffman, professor tat Tisch School of the Arts at NYU basically publishes all his tutorials online. Learning from here. Best place to start.
TUTORIALS:
http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/
NATURE OF CODE LECTURE:
http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/nature/
PLUS TUTORIALS ON THE MAIN SITE:
http://www.processing.org/learning/index.html
Daniel Shiffman also created a project I am quite interested in, combining a pollack inspiration with interactivity. See video below.
This seems to be one of the best, if not the best sites with Processing. His work is more than amazing, it is simple, subtle and reminds me of something Peter Campus said at a talk I went to at the Tate Modern. Art should be ‘transcendental.’ His work does just that.
Happy Place
*Please click on the image to view the interaction.
The work above basically shows particles seeking each other. Brilliant. The one below shows particle collisions.
Bubble Chamber
*Please click on the image to view the interaction.
And this one, I particularly love about creation and destruction.
Binary Ring
*Please click on the image to see the video.
Basically, if I can create something like this I would be over the moon. What interests me, are the congruences between what he uses and the earlier research that I have done on particles, particle entanglement, the combination of drawing, interactivity and video. All of a sudden, I feel that my work is coming to a point where everything is meeting and I am beginning to understand. Now, it is about getting the work done, following through and basically working out the kinks in the system. Seeing this work is not only inspiring, but moving. It reveals how much potential this medium has for inciting experiences viewers have the chance to finally feel.
Solar
*Click on image to see the video.
From Hodgin’s Solar I figured that I can use sound in my interpretation of the project. The sound can not necessarily be modulated, but used as a sort of trigger for mini explosions that take place within the viewer. Like how we react to stimuli, and experience it not in the mind but in the body. The idea is to have these explosions take place, and through these chemical reactions, colors change and perhaps create a more interesting combination of transformations and ‘infections’ between the viewers.
Magnetic Ink
*Please click image to see video.
I think the brilliant thing about his work, and how he is personally pushing this Processing medium is in his unique interpretation of sound. Though, I personally do not want to use music in the work (though after seeing his work it is quite tempting), I feel that the natural sound from the installation space would suffice as triggers of the experience. This was also an idea that Jonathan Kearney gave me during our tutorial with him. In a way, this eliminates the possibility of it becoming a music video, and becomes something more subtle, that can exist in a gallery space.
Advanced Beauty
*Please click image to see video.
Reading the Processing book by Reas and Fry and found this artist who basically did what I wanted to do. His name is Zai Chang and he created white noise. Viewers are seen as particles that basically affect each other (infect each other more like) with different colors merging and exchanging. The overlapping of different people, creates and exchange of particles. Quite interesting. Will try to find his code. Here is an image of his project:
*Click on the image to see a video of his interactive project.
I will be developing the idea further, interpreting it in my own way. More to come…but first to find the code.
http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Mark_Rothko/quotes.html
April 12,2008
“I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”
http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/classic1.shtm
“The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.”
http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/abstraction1a.shtm
“I don’t express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.”
http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/late4a.shtm
“It was with the utmost reluctance that I found the figure could not serve my purposes….But a time came when none of us could use the figure without mutilating it.”
National Gallery of Art Washington
http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/myths1.shtm
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