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Make 100 Kickstarter – 100 Generative Spirograph Prints

January 28, 2020 by in Generative Design, Processing

Since last  year, my approach as an artist in regards to “business-ing” has been “go big, or go home!” Naturally, the next step in this mantra is a Make 100 Kickstarter.

In fact, my Make 100 Kickstarter is live now through February 26th!

What is a Make 100 Kickstarter?!

This is when makers around the world commit to making 100 of something (anything really) during the months of January and February. I will be making mostly 100 generative spirograph prints. A Make 100 Kickstarter is a BIG but SMALL project. Making 100 of something is still a bit of a feat, but not too overwhelming either.

The Rewards

I haven’t quite convinced you yet? Well, you should definitely head over to the Kickstarter page to check out the rewards. But if you need a little extra motivation, you can see some of the rewards below!

Inspirational Riso Print
15 Backers – $18

Riso Print

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Instagram and Processing

June 15, 2015 by in Processing

I have had a few requests here and there for a Processing sketch to access the Instagram API and retrieve photographs.

Here is code for a very simple Processing sketch that retrieves and saves the first 10 photographs of an image based on provided hashtag. In the JSONObject, make sure to swap in your tag and client id.

ITP ListServ Network Visualization

April 12, 2014 by in Data Visualization, Processing, Python

ITP is a two year graduate program at NYU focused on the intersection of art and technology, “a Center for the Recently Possible.” One way a sense of community and connection is facilitated is with the ITP student listserv, host to all sorts of email conversations between students on everything from missing power chargers to animated gifs and pop culture.

My experience of the ITP student listserv upon arriving at ITP in the Fall of 2013 was one of mostly confusion, my inbox suddenly overwhelmed by a barrage of emails from people I didn’t know replete with animated gifs and insider jokes. By the Spring Semester of this year, my sense of the listserv was that it seemed largely dominated by Second Year students, who seemed to mainly just be speaking with Second Year students with minimal participation by First Year students.

I decided to test my theory by gathering my gmail data and creating a network visualization of the ITP listserv.

ITP Listserv Network Visualization

First Year students are grouped on the right hand side of the circle, and Second Year students on the left side. The density of lines is much greater on the left side of the circle, indicating there are more public conversations taking place between Second Year students.

During the process of researching for this project, I discovered an ITP student listserv network visualization made in 2007 by Joshua Knowles. My visualization chooses as its reference point the 2007 visualization, but I have many ideas to expand on this earlier visualization including making the visualization interactive so users can more deeply explore the data, and visually exploring the class imbalance of listserv usage.

I believe it is important to explore data in context. Once my data visualization is interactive, I would like to user-test it with ITP students, while also getting feedback from students on their own individual experience of the listserv and the ways it could be improved upon.

So how did I create this visualization? With Dan Shiffman’s guidance, I wrote a Processing program to visualize the ITP ListServ:
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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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Data Art: The New York Times and CMYK

February 13, 2014 by in Data Visualization, Processing

Snow storm = programming time.

Tonight, I focused on altering Jer Thorp’s NYT radial graph code to create abstract (yet aesthetically pleasing) data visualizations for my Data Art Class at ITP.

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Jer asked us to remix a fellow ITP student’s assignment. I chose to remix Billy Dang’s visualization of  the frequency of the words red, green and blue in the New York Times from the past 100 years.

However, I chose to map the frequency of the words cyan, magenta and yellow to create CMYK data visualizations. → Read more

Processing: Printing Code – Shape and Form

December 28, 2013 by in Generative Design, Processing

The second week of Rune Madsen’s Printing Code course explores shape and form. The homework assignment for the week: “Write a Processing sketch that outputs 2 shapes on a page. The first shape should be inspired by the word “wet.” The second shape should be inspired by the word “sharp”. Use only black and white. You have to use beginShape(), and all vertex points have to be created in a for loop. No manual plotting.”

Wet Curve Vertex

It took me a little while to figure out what shape I wanted to draw for the word “wet.” Initially I wanted to do something organic and abstracted – lines in the shape of water reflections or ripples, but lines aren’t shapes in the end. The word “wet” brings to mind something fluid and amorphous, liquid and transparent but reflective, round and repetitive. Drawing a raindrop seemed like a nice, albeit stereotypical representation of the word “wet.” → Read more

Printing Code – Ice Cream Cone

December 18, 2013 by in Generative Design, Processing

I really wanted to take Printing Code next semester, but many other ITP-ers also really wanted to take Printing Code (generative design/graphic design course focused on Processing). Luckily, Rune Madsen who teachers the course has all the lectures, code and readings on his website. Very convenient for my Winter Break.

Below is my response to the first homework assignment for Week One: “You can only use black (0) and white (255). You are only allowed to use triangle(), rect() and ellipse() once each, and no other drawing functions are allowed (no beginShape or images). Bring to class a design of an ice cream cone. Yes, and ice cream cone.”

Printing Code - Ice Cream Cone

And my code: → Read more

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