Creative Applications Network

Looks great but Windows only is pretty short sighted when the generative artwork community is mostly mac orientated, just check out http://www.creativeapplications.net

Just throwing in one of my favorite places to hear/read about new apps: http://www.creativeapplications.net/

Likely because of social concepts of space where haptics serving as 1st fiddle pretty much requires some type/association of direct/close contact/feedback without context. Haptics playing 2nd fiddle allows for context for interpretation. aka raised dot on j & f keys of a qwert keyboard. responsiveness of keyboard keys for touch typist vs. non-touch typist. Examples: https://www.creativeapplications.net/?s=touch

The Wikipedia article is a okayish description https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_coding . I guess if I had to describe it as short as possible I would say: using code to create art. Some good examples are the works of Anders Hoff https://inconvergent.net/generative/ or lots of projects on https://www.creativeapplications.net/ and of course the pioneering works of Frieder Nake et al. Am examples for generative design would be the old logo of the MIT Media lab https://www.engadget.com/2011-03-10-mit-media-lab-gets-a-multiplicitou…

For anyone interested in the history of generative art and its parent discipline "(new) media art", some historical resources: - http://generative.net/read/home - http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/mediaartnet/ - http://userwww.sfsu.edu/swilson/book/infoartsbook.html - http://archive.aec.at/, and https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/139740/8aec5cb9da76a6194bfc… - http://dada.compart-bremen.de/ - http://turbulence.org/ - http://neural.it/ (magazine) - http://rhizome.org/art/artbase/ - http://www.nettime.org/ (classic net.art mailing list) - http://we-make-money-not-art.com/ (previous-generation blog) - http://www.creativeapplications.net/ (current generation blog) Referring to Naon as a "prodigy" is a deeply out-of-context claim.

For those new in Generative Art check out http://www.creativeapplications.net/ - a lot of cool stuff is featured there.

Love this. Data visualization + LOST for the win. The direct link to Santiago Ortiz's Lostalgic is here: http://intuitionanalytics.com/other/lostalgic/ There's also a great interview by Greg J. Smith at Creative Applications that gives more insight into the project. http://www.creativeapplications.net/featured/anatomy-of-a-series-santi…

For Interaction Design? I don't have much for you. Here's a couple that are somewhat in that vein: http://uxmag.com/ http://www.minimalsites.com http://www.creativeapplications.net http://www.formfiftyfive.com

A snapshot of my subscriptions of the moment is at http://brianseward.com/feed-me.opml I am constantly impressed by the curation of applications on http://www.creativeapplications.net/ . Their posts inspire me to imagine creative, engaging interfaces for my own projects.

Does http://creativeapplications.net serve as an equivalent?

I'm a designer, but I've never been into traditional art because I grew up knowing that digital pieces could be so much more than traditional media. I think a lot of techies probably feel the same way; they're waiting for artists to better familiarize themselves with the tools we use because that's where the impressive stuff happens. Not sure if any of these fit into your definition of art+tech, but I'm a huge fan of the stuff shown on Creative Applications (http://www.creativeapplications.net/). Joanie Lemercier's work also falls under this category (http://tumblr.joanielemercier.com/). Branden Hall is also doing a lot of interactive art pieces lately (https://vimeo.com/waxpraxis), and Manny Tan is doing some great visual stuff with various technologies as well (http://www.uncontrol.com/). And since the individual post about it didn't get any love here the other day, the Flat Surface Shader project (http://wagerfield.github.com/flat-surface-shader/) is a great example of open-source pieces that others can fork and build off of that I hope we see a lot more of (in addition to designers and developers working on these types of projects together to begin with). To that point, Chrome Experiments (http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/) and Creative JS's tutorials (http://creativejs.com/tutorials/) are great introductions to what is possible for those wishing to delve into technical art. Nylllon (http://nylllon.com/) also does a good job of curating some great art+tech…

I try to keep my subscription to an absolute minimum since I like to leave some time for reading books. After a lot of culling, I'm currently subscribed to some popular feeds: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ (general web design / dev) http://www.alistapart.com/ (long form web design / front-end) http://dailyjs.com/ (Javascript / node.js) http://createdigitalmusic.com/ (digital music / software) http://www.creativeapplications.net/ (new-media art) And a handful of unpopular ones: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ (absolutely my favorite blog in the world – self-describes as "refactored perception) http://www.tempobook.com/blog/ (same author as above, posts related to his last book) http://worrydream.com/feed.xml (not really a blog, but Bret Victor writes some of the best long-form articles on interaction design around – read all of them) http://www2.technologyreview.com/rss/video_rss.aspx (Tech Review videos, sparsely updated – mainly because the editor's interviews are awesome/hilarious) http://idlewords.com/ (breathtaking travel blog from the founder of Pinboard) http://www.loper-os.org/ (awesome / hilarious posts by a software heretic on the general terrible state of things in technology – keeps me in touch with Alan Kay-esque thinking) http://we-make-money-not-art.com/ (the only contemporary art blog I like from a very dedicated Italian writer) http://vagueterrain.net/ (occasionally published digital art magazine, themed topics, guest…

Some additional info to reduce some apparent confusion. I learned about Processing 2.0 from here: http://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/generative-art-in-html5… I already knew about the IDE modes; being able to generate an Android app straight from Processing code is pretty slick (especially as you mix in stuff like Pure Data) though it has some limitations. The above link adds, "Processing 2.0 adds a third option, 'JavaScript', which allows you to publish direct to HTML5 Canvas (using the now in-built Processing.js). And it works. It just works." The best Processing page I could find that included this was the changes page, which also nicely lists other new features. I picked the word "compile", in quotes, because while see as in fact compiling, I also tend to think of compiling as taking a high level level and outputting something lower-level. Though that's not a necessary condition, I had a feeling that if I left off the quotes there'd be complaints about how this wasn't really compiling, title is misleading, etc.. But there you go. edit: also, video: http://vimeo.com/28117873

thi.ng is great and should really get more attention. The packages have a very clean and atomic structure, you can easily pick one or more and use them in your project. fun fact: you can reach each package from a https://thi.ng/PACKAGE short URL, e.g. https://thi.ng/color. I started using the thi.ng collection a couple of years ago when I had more time for creative code sketching (https://guidoschmidt.cc/sketchbook, father of two now, with full time work + family its hard for me to find time and motivation at the moment. Hopefully will get back to it more in the future), still only scratched the surface yet. https://www.creativeapplications.net/people/karsten-schmidt/ has a great history of Karsten's work. Also worth checking out his mastodon profile: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi

Non-joke version: <https://www.creativeapplications.net/project/durr-shivering-bracelet-t… Discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7007731>

Perhaps not all whimsy, but definitely take a look at https://www.creativeapplications.net/blog/ for some interesting stuff people are doing out there in the world.

Gcode for this type of 3d printer is very easy to understand and generate. Some years ago I did some experiments with 3d printing in 3d (printing wire frames in 3d). But it takes time to get the feed rates and print speeds right. Edit: an example of wireframe printing: http://www.creativeapplications.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bottle-…

few sorting links with explanations and visualizations: https://imgur.com/gallery/RM3wl https://panthema.net/2013/sound-of-sorting/ https://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/sorting-visualisation-…

Here's one doing exactly that: http://www.creativeapplications.net/mining-for-xmr/

The DaisyDisk website is surprisingly ugly and does not do their app justice. Here's what the app looks like: http://www.creativeapplications.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/DaisyDi… Ever since I've ditched macOS I've been waiting to find a similarly designed app for Windows. EDIT: Just tried Diskitude, but it's unfortunately nothing like DaisyDisk. It doesn't do the same drill-down DD does.

Yesterday's discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6475285 Article: http://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/lego-calendar-by-vitamins-…

There are a few Chrome extensions for browser history visualization mentioned at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-cool-chrome-browser-extensions-visualiz… There's also the Eyebrowse project http://www.creativeapplications.net/webapp/eyebrowse-webapp/

have a look at the job board at creative applications net: http://www.creativeapplications.net/job-board/

Maybe this picture will help you: http://www.creativeapplications.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bloggie… Now you have different options to display it. One is to map it on a 3D object and place a camera inside the object. More info and movies: http://www.cornflex.org/?p=1

More writeup on CreativeApplications.net: http://www.creativeapplications.net/arduino-2/computerless-arduino-ard…

I do a few freelance jobs -- things like: http://www.vimeo.com/5233789 http://www.vimeo.com/8525186 they are either events (outdoor projection) or for performances / online videos. Usually are 1-3 weeks of coding solo or in a group, and tons of organization / planning time. in terms of opencl, I think Memo is pushing that pretty far -- see for example: http://www.memo.tv/opencl_particles_at_okgos_design_miami_2009_gig I think markerless AR is going to be big soon -- the work from EPFL come to mind, such as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZOeRhQdew8 the other thing which is huge is kinect -- this pretty much changes the game for interaction, and you can see some great work being done by artists and hackers within the community with it: http://www.creativeapplications.net/kinect/

Congrats on the highlight by CreativeApps! http://www.creativeapplications.net/games/3-degrees-of-wikipedia-iphon…

I think it should be "The art of buying single-board computers and never running them once". I think the "once" is needed in the case of computers. They are as machines not directly comparable to books... A book, like any media, fulfilled its initial purpose after it has been "consumed" - anything else (looks nice, feels nice, smells nice) are physical, subjective qualities attached to it. You might even buy it solely for these physical qualities, but that's besides the point. A machine has its purpose in its usage, and that usage requires known resources that should not be carelessly wasted. I personally buy them to enable a utility for myself and have fun discovering it. It fulfilled its initial purpose even if it was powered on just once. Even those single-board computers that were put to "good use", as building blocks for new devices (eg. [0]), are still not in use the whole time. [0]: https://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/paragraphica-context-to-i…

The analogy is fine but it doesn’t address the issue people are having with AI stuff. When you zoom in enough there’s always ambiguity on the definition, today we can’t even define what is life and at what point exactly it starts or ends however we have birthdays and cemeteries since the beginning of the civilization. The philosophical discussion is nice and useful but when it comes to policies it’s better to address the practical issues. The difference between photography and AI generated content is that the “metry” part is light on substance I AI. There’s this Swedish artist who build a “camera” which is a device that looks like camera but doesn’t have any lens or something, instead generates an image based on the location and weather data. Take a look: https://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/paragraphica-context-to-i… So yeah, the philosophical discussion is there and has plenty of meant to chew :)

> that was one off-hand comment at the end of the article. Kennedy's assassination was one bad action at the end of an otherwise lovely day, yet we still have to take it as part of the whole. So, when the designer says, "I want less electronic waste" and then makes electronic waste, I am calling them out on it. I'm blaming the writer for a bad article, too and if you think this is somehow news, you should have linked to a better source of this info. For example, here are two other articles on the same design from over a week ago without the fake environmental rhetoric: http://www.designboom.com/technology/conductive-electronic-paper-speak… 12-12-2013/ http://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-simplest-speaker-is-silkscreened-on-a-pi… Here's the same article again, from last month, also without any fake environmental rhetoric: http://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/paper-electronics-by-coralie… :) Now, since you are so excited about home-made speakers, I'm sure you'll lead us in another round of healthy enthusiasm for another home-made speaker from 5 years ago by a _2nd_grader_? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CxMm0ksJ8Y And now another home-made speaker from 5 years ago from household materials by two high schoolers? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=995yt8Eb5FU Here's another such home-made speaker from five years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i90jJ9bKmRg Oh yeah, here's another home-made speaker and audio circuit…