Welcome to the new InProcess:ing website… yay!

• catch up with developments and future plans;
• watch past presentations and
• follow-up on interesting links.

As the project develops we hope it’ll become a useful and thought-provoking resource and reflect our ambition to become an open forum for sharing creative coding and practice.

But this will take time and needs to develop organically. So to start off we’ve just added a quick ‘Join the Forum’ option and opened up various posts to easy comment – all you need do is add a name and email to your first posting and once approved you can type away…

So join the forum and:

• share your favourite Processing sketches;
• suggest practitioners/work for future presentations;
• offer useful techniques and online resources;
• tell us what you’d like to see from the project.

Cheers to the small but perfectly formed group that came to the last session.

And thanks again to Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou and Sam Meech for sharing their very different yet equally interesting personal approaches to creative coding.

Yiannis’s ongoing investigations into design via computational tools can be found at his volatile prototypes blog – but you can download a ZIP file of his presentation PDF, demo applications and source code  below if you just Continue reading “[Output] v1.3 – exploring designs via computational tools” »

Sam’s Smeech Blog – “from everything a little bit” – documents his ongoing creative explorations with digital video – including a follow-up inProcessing / outOfProcessing post to his InProcess:ing presentation.

For full links and documentation of the presentations…
Continue reading “[Output] v1.3 – exploring designs via computational tools” »

InProcess:ing and Madlab present an OpenLab Workshop

Friday, 18th June 10.30am-4.30pm
WORKSHOP FULL £15/£10 students - buy your ticket via Eventbrite
Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory)
36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)
madlab.org.uk
openlabworkshops.org

InProcess:ing and Madlab are pleased to welcome Evan Raskob – founder and organiser of Openlab Workshops – making art and music with open source/free software around London and the UK.

This condensed one-day version of the regular Openlab 5-evening course will be a relaxed but project-focused introduction to programing in Processing and interactive art and design in general. We will spend the bulk of the day on basic methods of working with code, general workflow and feeling your way around the Processing environment, along the way building some small projects and gaining inspiration from art, design and technologies such as Wii remotes, RFID, OSC, video and more. The material is flexible, based on the needs and wishes of the people attending.

Expect to learn and find out about:

• Introductory coding practice
• Where to find both help and inspiration
• Basic drawing to the screen
• Loops and time-based animation
• Using the mouse: built-in mouse methods and variables
• Using the keyboard: built-in keyboard methods and variables
• The possibility – time permitting – of working with images and/or video

UPDATE: We’re really pleased the workshop is fully subscribed – but do get in touch if you’ve missed out and are disapponted – info [at] cybersonica.net (a stand in contact address ’til the cybersonica.org mailserver gets sorted). We are hoping to run other Processing and related workshops in the future and we’d be keen to find out if there’s any interest.

pixelpusher livecoding fluxus to cheju’s test album, broken waves (boltfish records) at Electrovision, Cafe 1001, London

Thursday, 17th June 7-10pm
(and third Thursday – or thereabouts – of the month thereafter)
Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory)
36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)
madlab.org.uk

• ‘In-the-flesh’ presentation by London based live video performance artist or “pixelist” Evan Raskob a.k.a. PixelPusher – demonstrating his homemade software that generates video out of a controlled chaos of photographic images, simple shapes, animations, sounds, and live video feeds;
• Informal ‘show-and-tell’ and ‘open-laptop’ sessions (go on… bring some of your own work along).

InProcess:ing focuses on the Processing language, environment and community (though not exclusively) as a vehicle to support and encourage creative collaboration and meaningful exchange between a diverse group of practitioners, creatives and hobbyists. It aims to create a playful, experimental space and a supportive framework in which people can share their work, realise new technological ideas, be inspired, challenged and stretched.

Join us at the next session to see Processing in action, meet other interested and like-minded people and find out more about the project and how to get involved.

For full biogs, photos and links…
Continue reading “[Session] v1.4 – Evan Raskob – pixelism” »

Cheers to everyone who came along to the last session.

Thanks to Simon Blackmore for a thoroughly engaging insight into his practice.

Documentation on his data sculpted plants project is available at: http://simonblackmore.net/data_sculpted_plants/
and technical information at: http://simonblackmore.net/data_sculpted_plants/technical.htm
with his 3DTurtle Processing library available at: http://www.simonblackmore.net/turtle3d/

For full links and documentation of the presentations…
Continue reading “[Output] v1.2 – data sculpted plants” »

Thursday, 20th May 7-10pm
(and third Thursday – or thereabouts – of the month thereafter)
Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory)
36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)
madlab.org.uk

• Telematic presentation by Delft based architect Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou;
• ‘In-the-flesh’ presentation by Liverpool based digital ‘videosmith’ Sam Meech;
• Informal ‘show-and-tell’ and ‘open-laptop’ sessions (go on… bring some of your own work along).

Join us at the next session to see Processing in action, meet other interested and like-minded people and find out more about the project and how to get involved.

For full biogs, photos and links…
Continue reading “[Session] v1.3 – Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou – exploring designs via computational tools” »

Thursday, 22nd April 7-10pm
(and third Thursday – or thereabouts – of the month thereafter)
Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory)
36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)
madlab.org.uk

• In-the-flesh presentation by Manchester based artist Simon Blackmore – also of the Owl Project – about his data sculpted plants;
• Pre-recorded presentation by Cologne based artist Jens Heinen of Visionlabz and “lightwriters” Lichtfaktor;
• Informal ‘show-and-tell’ and ‘open-laptop’ sessions (bring some of your own work along)

Join us at the next session to see Processing in action, meet other interested and like-minded people and find out more about the project and how to get involved.

For biogs, photos and links…
Continue reading “[Session] v1.2 – Simon Blackmore – data sculpted plants” »

3D rendering of Neil Morrin, created by @MadlabUK – http://www.flickr.com/photos/defnet/4510406312/

More photos at the Madlab AND in Blackburn Flickr set…

Lewis Sykes of Cybersonica, Dave Mee and Hwa Young Jung of Madlab and Elliot Woods of Kimchi and Chips set off for Interface Amnesty 2 with a boot full of tech and a mission to 3D scan attendees and contributors to the event… and though it took a little while to install, blackout, tweak the set-up and get into a workflow once we got going it was a lot of fun…

Thanks to Ross Dalziel at SoundNetwork and all at AND Festival for inviting us

To try this for yourself you’ll need to download Processing, install the PeasyCam and ControlP5 libraries, download Kyle McDonald’s Three Phase Processing sketch and any of the source images below which you copy into its ‘img’ folder – though to actually see them you’ll need to…
Continue reading “[Output] Interface Amnesty 2” »

Elliot Woods of Kimchi and Chips gesticulates…

Cheers to everyone who came along to the last session – nice to see some new faces too.

Thanks to Jono Brandel and Elliot Woods for their engaging presentations – both well received and much appreciated.

To try out jonobr1’s ‘You’re Just My Type’ Processing sketch for yourself download:

• the complete MadLabPresentation.zip (including the presentation PDF, Processing files and ‘You’re Just My Type’ video – ~180Mb)
• or just the presentation PDF
• or just the Processing sketches (with a switch of font in the ‘Sound’ sketch that resolves a load error)

You’ll also need to download and install the following libraries:

• Sonia by Amit Pitaru – Audio library for sound playback and synthesis. Integrates Jsyn and requires a browser plugin for playback. “For both the sketches “JustMyType” and “Sound” to work you need the SoniaHelper library, which is not part of the regular Sonia library. The SoniaHelper library can be downloaded here:http://workshop.evolutionzone.com/2006/05/10/soniahelper-library/“ – Thanks Jaden!
• Geomerative by Ricard Marxer Pinon - Extends 2D geometry operations to facilitate generative geometry. Includes a TrueType font interpreter.

For full links and documentation of the presentations…
Continue reading “[Output] v1.1 – You’re Just My Type” »

InProcess:ing heads up to Blackburn on Saturday, 10th April to contribute to the SoundNetwork Interface Amnesty 2 event as part of the closing day programme for the latest edition of the AND Festival.

We’re planning to scan members of the general public in 3D and introduce them to the relatively simple DIY setup of projector, camera and Processing using techniques and open source tools developed by media artist Kyle McDonald – as presented at InProcess:ing v1.0.

INTERFACE AMNESTY 2
MAKERS/ARTISTS/MUSICIANS/COMPOSERS/DIY/TECH
APRIL 10th 2010 12-5pm

Waterloo Pavilions, Church Street, Blackburn, Pennines
Interface Amnesty is back at AND festival!
Adrian McEwan & Dan Lynch / INARI / INPROCESS:ING / JOEMCLAUGHLIN / SONODROME / SQUIDFANNY /

A rough and ready tech-folk event championing a resurgence of art and craft through technology!

DIY tech through youtube howto’s, tech startups, circuit bending, twitter hacks, Processing programming, arduinos, muios, MAKE magazine and hackspace culture are making an impact on how we make art media and music.

Interface Amnesty is a temporary shopfront and car boot for people making and hacking their own interfaces and devices to make art and music!

So come along contribute, get a table show off your device or just meet the makers and play!