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electrolobby
Processing
Casey Reas, Ben Fry (USA)
Processing: a programming language, a graphical programming environment, an instructional user interface and, at the same time, a designer community. Workshops and demonstrations display the potential of Processing, which enables users—even those with no programming skills—to create dynamic screen designs with a high level of sophistication. Processing is an expanded version of Java with a highly simplified and abbreviated syntax. In this way, graphical programming is transformed from technical writing into a communicative procedure. Every piece of software developed thereby is made available to the community at www.proce55ing.net, which thus develops into an artistic, open source network.
Processing is an open 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 (I), and by a group of developers distributed across the Net.
The electrolobby engenders and cultivates a workshop atmosphere, and artists are invited to work on-site with software. Visitors in turn, have the chance to observe the creative process up close and to experience a personal introduction by the artists themselves to the work being done. One highlight will be the beta-launch of Processing software, which will be presented to the general public in Linz and put to the test once more by the artistic works of invited electrolobby participants.
Participants:
Casey Reas (USA), Ben Fry (USA), Amit Pitaru (USA), Hernando Barragan (COL / I), Golan Levin (USA), Lia (A), Marius Watz (SF / D), Schoenerwissen (D), Juha Huuskonen (SF)
Processing is an open 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 (I), and by a group of developers distributed across the Net.
Source: Marius Watz
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