Creative Process

Anything and Everything: Art & Technology Resources and Inspiration

May 15, 2014 by in Creative Process

It’s time to research anything-and-everything in the areas of data visualization, creative code, transmedia projects, psychogeography, music visualizations, interactive installations, experience design and generative design. I hope this information will be helpful to others looking for resources and inspiration in the field of art and technology. This post will include links to conferences, books, artists websites, projects, articles, blogs, and other resources as I find them this summer.

Artists, Designers, Studios
*Aaron Koblin
Benedict Gross
Jeongmoon Choi
Justin Windle -interactive web experiments
*Kimchi and Chips – light and sound sculpture
**LIA - generative artist
Manuel Lima - information visualization
Marcin Ignac – generative art, creative code, graphics, data
Mark McKeague - city and sound art
Moritz Stefaner – data visualization
Nervous System Inc - generative art studio specializing in jewelry and household objects
Pitch Interactive – data visualization studio
Reza Ali – new media artist and researcher
Robert Hodgin
*Schnellebuntebilder - generative and interactive installation design, sound/motion/light
Stamen - design, data and technology studio
*especially exciting
**having trouble finding women creative coders, please halp!

Conferences and Festivals
Moogfest: music, art, technology – Asheville, North Carolina (April 2014)
Ars Electronica: art, technology – Linz, Austria (Sept 2014)
Resonate: art, technology - Belgrade (April 2014)
Eyeo Festival: creative code, data, art - Minneapolis, MN (June 2014)
SIGGRAPH: computer graphics, animation - Vancouver, Canada (August 2014)
Dumbo Arts Festival: art, technology (New York, September 2014)
Zero1: art, technology (San Jose, 2015)

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Collapsing Time and Memory with Instacollage

March 14, 2014 by in Creative Process, Photography, Processing

For Recurring Concepts in Art, Joelle and I are taking my Instacollages and remaking them without technology. The process of deconstructing my original project has forced me several times over to reflect on the motivations and process that led to Instacollage.

instacollage-mar2

Joelle found this great quote which sums up collage and juxtaposition quite nicely:

“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it, and over it.” Johann Goethe

Instacollage

One of the things you learn as photographer is that there is a process that happens by which we become familiar with our surroundings to the point we stop “seeing.”

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Ideate, and Repeat

March 14, 2014 by in Creative Process

“Before you have focused your thoughts you are all over the place, because you are searching. You are feeling. You are looking for things. You do not know what you are doing. You are lost. You are in a maze. So thinking is number one in the design process. The design is the product of your thinking.”
-Paul Rand

If I Could Have Dinner With Anyone, it Would Be Kurt Vonnegut Please

December 15, 2013 by in Creative Process

“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”
-Kurt Vonnegut

One Day, This Will All Make Sense

September 28, 2013 by in Creative Process, Physical Computing

I think it’s interesting how our emotional state affects our abilities and perception of reality. While Norman’s “Emotional Design” focuses on how our emotional state affects our ability to use products, all I could think about after reading the first chapter is how our emotional state affects our ability to be creative and generate ideas.

Norman explains that creative thinking requires being in a positive mood in order to make connections across ideas and space. A positive frame of mind broadens one’s thought processes, allowing one’s thoughts to follow many paths and tangents.

Creativity (and the act of generating ideas!), at least for myself, requires that I be willing to be silly and playful. When I walk around taking photos, I know I probably look strange because 99% of the time I am learning over a wall photographing some mundane water fountain for an hour. I generally figure I am on the right track if no one else follows suit. → Read more

Design Thinking and Rapid Prototyping

April 16, 2013 by in Creative Process, User-Experience Design

Over the past year as I have been learning about visual design and interaction design, I have worked on side projects for friends and organizations. One of the big pieces missing from classes has been knowledge around process and design thinking. What are good ways to approach a project in the initial stages? How do you discover a user need?

I was glad recently to have the opportunity to take General Assembly’s workshop on Design Thinking, and remove some mystery from the design process! Jim Ratcliffe, who has taught classes at Stanford’s d.school, and Olga Trusova of Blue Fig Labs led the workshop. After a quick recap on the design process, we split into pairs. Time to rapid prototype – on steroids!

Splash Screen and Location Notification Screen
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John Maeda, Money and Freedom

April 9, 2013 by in Creative Process

“Having some money gives you the freedom to explore what you want to do. But earning money is often not freedom.”
–John Maeda from How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer by Debbie Millman

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