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electrolobby
Processing
Casey Reas, Ben Fry (USA)
The “experimental array” for the presentation of digital art forms that are actually “impossible to exhibit” has long since established itself as a mustattend annual get-together at Ars Electronica. In recent years, European net-artists, Asian game developers, American hacktivists and African trashartists have enlivened the lobby of the Brucknerhaus, presenting themselves and their artistic strategies to an occasionally somewhat nonplussed audience.
The electrolobby is not an exhibition space for projects; instead, it’s a meeting place, a forum that takes up the question of the design and mediation of the transitory, process-oriented variants of digital art to be found behind the monitors, in the networks and between the program’s lines of digital code. With the electrolobby Kitchen, this festival within a festival has created a discourse domain of its own in which the electrolobby artists put their positions and works up for discussion and turn a critical eye to what’s been going on at the festival.
Proce55ing: a programming language, a graphic programming environment, an instructional user interface and, at the same time, a designer community. Workshops and demonstrations display the potential of Proce55ing, which enables users—even those with no programming skills—to create dynamic screen designs with a high level of sophistication.
Participants:
Casey Reas (USA), Ben Fry (USA), Amit Pitaru (USA), Carlos Rocha (COL / USA), Hernando Barragan (COL / I), Golan Levin (USA), Lia (A), Marius Watz (FIN / D), Schoenerwissen (D)
A project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. It is currently developed in the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab, the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, and by a group of developers distributed across the Net.
Source: Casey Reas, Ben Fry
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