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)
Funding Resources
NYU Prototyping Fund
Tisch NYU GSO Fund
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
Dream Places to Work
Google’s Creative Lab
Rockwell Lab (Rockwell Group)
Schnellebuntebilder
New York Times R&D Lab
New York Public Library Labs
NASA
Red Paper Heart
Smithsonian Institute
Fathom Information Design
Pitch Interactive
Hyperakt
Inspiring Projects
Conductar Moogfest: Create music with your brain and a responsive visual world, uses EEG data as measured by Mindwave sensor and phone app (key ideas: neural cartography, psychogeography, immersive augmented reality experiences, generative art, audio-visual experiences)
Cyborg Art: extend senses and perception through bio hacking (key words: Moon Ribas, Neil Harbisson, Cyborg Foundation, Speedborg)
The Wilderness Downtown: interactive film of Arcade Fire’s “We Used to Wait” built using HTML5 by Aaron Koblin (key words: web, interactive film, HTML 5)
Starfield: a swing installation that simulates the experience of swinging in an interactive starry sky (key words: kinect, installation, visualization, openFrameworks)
SenseScapes: interactive 360 degree visual installation filling an entire room, gesture room! (keywords: projectors, infrared cameras)
Light Segments Space: visuals projection mapped onto string installation in gallery space (keywords: projection mapping, animated installation)
The Other Night Sky: data visualization that tracks and visualize classified American satellites (keywords: data, photography)
A Piece of the Pie Chart: robotic installation that creates pies with printed pie charts, which show gender gap at different companies (keywords: physical computing, robotics, data art, food)
Wind Map: real-time visualization of wind patterns across the United States (keywords: data art)
Creative Opportunities
Art Hack Day
Music Hackathon
Blogs/News/Etc
Fast Company
core77
Tech Crunch
Hyperallergic
The Creators Project
Creative Applications
Books
Generative Design - incredibly deep overview of generative art, with processing examples, that unfortunately code-wise seem a little dated
Generative Art by Matt Pearson – excellent introduction on generative art
Form + Code by Casey Reas - not dated, despite being a few years old, very interesting overview of creative code and programming
Creative Code by John Maeda - dated, but filled with inspiring quotes and interviews with creative coders
Resources for Teaching Yourself to Code
Nature of Code – Dan Shiffman
Processing – Dan Shiffman
Meetups, Events, Inspiration in NYC
Creative Mornings
Van Allen Institute
The Drawing Center
Eyebeam Art + Technology Center
Bitforms Gallery
Data Resources
NYC Open Data
PhD Programs
Digital Arts and Experimental Media – University of Washington
School of Arts, Media and Engineering – Arizona State University
MIT Media Lab
Inspiring 2014 ITP Thesis Projects
*I did not watch all of the thesis presentations, but of the ones I did see, the following were of particular interest personally
Log(me) by Michelle Cortese
Tunnel Vision App by William Lindmeier
Visual Sound Synthesis by Louise Foo
Making Things Beautiful by Scott Garner
From the Dark by Surya Mattu
Archetype by Aaron Sherwood
Jewliebots by Maria Paula Saba
