GAFFTA http://www.gaffta.org Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Fri, 17 May 2013 01:10:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Gray Area: Creative Code Meetup II http://www.gaffta.org/2013/05/16/gray-area-creative-code-meetup-ii/ http://www.gaffta.org/2013/05/16/gray-area-creative-code-meetup-ii/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 17:05:17 +0000 jette http://www.gaffta.org/?p=18710 gray_area_greyfinal

Logistics

Date: Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Times: 7pm – 11pm
Cost: REGISTER HERE FOR THE MEETUP // $5 – $20 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Location: The Lab, 2948 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103

After an extremely successful Gray Area Creative Code Meetup launch with Olof Mathé, Wes Grubbs, and Ben McChesneyplease join us for round 2 on June 18th!

The folks from Leap Motion will be in the house to demo and exhibit the most recent uses of their motion controller. If you’ve got a project you have created with Leap Motion be sure to let us know.

We are also adding a more curated soundtrack with DJ performances by Cullen Miller and Sebastien Deux

The rest of the speakers and details will be announced in the days ahead.

As always, Gray Area Creative Code students and community members are encouraged to apply for a speaker slot here: https://podio.com/webforms/807818/32708

 

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Logistics:

Date: June 8th, 2013
Time: 9:00pm
Tickets: $60-$160 Contribute on Crowdtilt→
Location: The Regency Center Lodge, 1300 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA

Join Gray Area for a very special fundraiser in The Regency Center Lodge with electronic beats & gambling feats! In support of the expansion of our creative code education program. Let’s crowdtilt this TECHNO CASINO so we can try our luck at Blackjack, Poker, & Roulette; while dancing to unique live sets from world-class sound performers- Monolake, Deadbeat, and Voices from the Lake; coupled with captivating code-based visuals.

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The beautiful Lodge located in The Regency Center is the perfect backdrop for this exciting evening. Built in 1909, this amazing space has dark wood paneled walls, stained glass windows, a cozy fireplace and an amazing dance floor.  We are excited to welcome you to press your luck with us on the tables!



This Techno Casino will only emerge if we reach the tilt amount of $25,000 which is the production cost of this unique experience.Every dollar beyond the tilt amount will go towards Gray Area’s goal to develop http://creativecode.io/ to become the premier resource for applied creative code education.

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    We will distribute tickets in tiers & each ticket includes $100 of chips for charitable gambling at the Techno Casino!
  • Early Bird ticket:  $60 (very limited)
  • Limited ticket: $80
  • Advanced ticket:  $100
  • VIP tickets are $160 which will include a hosted bar, special gift, and table seating.

    • Please contribute→ more than the ticket price to earn your tax deduction & support us!

    More Details:

  • The party is from 9pm-2am on June 8th, 2013
  • Any money collected beyond our costs (tilt amount) will be donated to Gray Area Foundation for the Arts to support creativecode.io  If we don't reach our tilt amount, you won't be charged a single dime!
  • The cap on occupancy is 300, so get a spot for you and your friends while you can.
  • Must be 21+
  • Each contribution guarantees a spot so if you would like to bring a date contribute twice the amount of the minimum contribution price.
  • Every contribution of $160 unlocks a VIP ticket! Want 2 VIP tickets? Contribute $320…

    • What am I supporting? 

    Since 2008, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts has been a leader in teaching code to create art. Within our education program we have held over 50 classes and served over 500 artists.  

    With your support we will offer merit and need-based scholarships to lower barriers of access to digital art + technology; create an online gallery of student work and open-source code created at Gray Area; and increase our class offerings to more students by developing a new platform called creativecode.io

    World-Class Audio Performances From:

    MONOLAKE

    LIVE


    Robert Henke, born in Munich, Germany, builds and operates machines to produce art. Amazed and inspired by the constantly expanding possibilities of applied computer science and technology, Henke explores new territories between musical composition,performance and installation. Alongside diving deeply into aesthetic concepts, the creation of his own instruments and tools is an important and integral part of his artistic process.

    His works are concerned with volume, power and impact, the tension between silence and noise, darkness and light, and about the exploration and manipulation of real and virtual spaces. They expose carefully shaped details and gradual changes of repeating structures in different time scales.

    Henke is a pioneer of multichannel sound, using methods and systems like wave field synthesis and ambisonics to create situations of total immersion, expanding the sonic experience of his performances beyond of what can be reproduced at home.

    During the last decade, Henke’s artistic explorations more and more expanded from his initial focus on music towards the field of installation, both sound based and audio-visual. His installations, internet based audiovisual performances and concerts have been presented at Tate Modern London, the Centre Pompidou Paris, Le Lieu Unique Nantes, PS-1 New York, MUDAM Luxembourg, MAK Vienna and on countless festivals.

    Henke’s interest in the combination of art and technology is also evident in his contributions to the development of the music software ‘Ableton Live’. Since Ableton’s founding in 1999, he has been central to the development of Live, which became the standard tool for electronic music production and completely redefined the performance practice of electronic music.

    He writes and lectures about sound and the creative use of computers, and holds a professorship in sound design at the Berlin University of Arts.

    For 2013 he has been selected as Mohr Visiting Artist at the music department of Stanford University, where he will be teaching a class in computer music composition and performance.

    DEADBEAT

    LIVE


    Deadbeat is one Scott Monteith, a long time Montrealer and recent Berlin ex-pat who has been releasing his own special blend of dub laden, minimal electronics since 2000, for labels such as Cynosure, Scape, and Wagon Repair to name but a few. His work has been met with consistent critical acclaim from the industry’s leading publications and websites, and drawn regular performance invitations for some of the world’s most respected festivals, including Barcelona’s Sonar, Berlin’s Transmediale, and Montreal’s own Mutek. From 1999 to late 2003, Scott worked, assuming various roles, for the Montreal based company Applied Acoustics Systems, makers of a range of critically acclaimed software synthesizers. Having now moved on to pursue his own musical efforts full time, the experience left him with a passion for the development of new creative interfaces, and a strong grasp of some the most cutting edge technology in the industry. A certified music technology junkie, his knowledge in such matters has been occasionally called upon at various events, most notably the 2007 edition of the Red Bull Music Academy in Melbourne, Australia, and as a writer for Computer Music Magazine. Whether crafting kaleidoscopic house and techno, snap-clap digital dancehall, or impossibly heavy dub, Scott continues to search for his own unique voice between the ones and zeros.

    NEEL (VOICES FROM THE LAKE)

    DJ


    Neel is most well known for his project with Donato Dozzy, Voices From
    The Lake. Their seminal debut album was one of our favorite releases
    of 2012, and was named album of the year by Resident Advisor. The live set that VFTL played at our event in July 2012 will go down in history as one of the best sets we’ve ever hosted. With Donato Dozzy taking a break from extensive touring, Neel has really stepped up his touring schedule in the past year and has a few solo releases that will be seeing the light of day very soon. He really held his own on the past VFTL tour and deeply impressed us with his DJ sets. He will undoubtedly come with a record crate full of unreleased tracks to share with us, as both he and Voices From The Lake have been very busy in the studio this year.

    Bryan Kasenic

    DJ

    Bryan Kasenic (pka Spinoza) is known in the electronic music world for throwing many incredible parties, playing adventurous DJ sets, and starting Beyond, his own booking agency. The past few years have seen Bryan take his infamous Brooklyn-based party, The Bunker, to Panorama Bar in Berlin, Corsica Studios in London, Unsound Festival in Krakow, Communikey Festival in Boulder, Decibel Festival in Seattle, Smartbar in Chicago, GAFFTA in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and of course Detroit. The Bunker celebrated it’s tenth anniversary in January 2013.

    Code-based visual performances from:

    JONO BRANDEL

    Designer/Developer


    Jono Brandel relies on the combination of two fundamental disciplines: graphic design and computer programming. The results of this mixture vary in form, but usually have a screen-based component. He explores procedural aesthetics.Jono studied Design | Media Arts with a minor in Latin at UCLA. He went on to receive two artist grants one at cheLA and the other at Fabrica. He is now part of the Data Arts Team in Google’s Creative Lab. His work has been showcased at the Tate Modern, OFFF, and HAMMER Museum. He has also had the pleasure to perform alongside Boys Noize, Deadmau5, Crystal Castles, and many others accompanying their music with moving image.

    Can’t attend?

    Make a direct donation to Gray Area
    Support a new breed of artists. Support new applications of technology. Support innovative approaches to social challenges today. Your donation is 100% tax-deductible. https://www.gaffta.org/support-us/

    Sign up for news on the expansion of our education program here:
    http://signup.creativecode.io/

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    Logistics:

    Dates and Times: Opening Night: Thursday May 16th 6-10pm / Exhibition runs until Sunday May 19th
    Location: Phoenix Hotel | San Francisco, CA
    Opening Night Tickets: http://artpadsfopeningnight.eventbrite.com/
    General Admission Tickets: HERE

    Overview:

    We are proud to present a GAFFTA-incubated project at the Phoenix Hotel as part of ArtPadSF!

    “I Just Wanna Hold Your Hand” was conceived at UP Festival by artists Tosh Chiang, Melody Donoso , Ellen Keith, Yael Braha, Mark Roth and Jasdeep Garcha, and will be exhibited in it’s full participatory glory in the courtyard of the Phoenix hotel for the duration of the event.

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    I Just Wanna Hold Your Hand

    Conducting energy through people to stimulate tangible public interactions.

    By interacting with one another people are able to transform their environment through play. Two metal hands are mounted to the wall. When two or more individuals complete the circuit they provoke audio-visual responses. The level of interactivity is determined by the flow of electricity through the individuals. The interaction can be tailored per installation; the core tool is the Arduino, and in this case we’ve experimented with Processing projections to activate blank city walls. storefronts, or pavement. This design allows for expansion as well as meaningful data collection. Also, we just like making people hold hands.

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    ArtPadSF at the iconic Phoenix Hotel is a provocative 21st century boutique art fair, focused on emerging and contemporary art from the Bay Area and beyond. In its third year and partnered with San Francisco’s world-renowned arts institutions, galleries, and artists, ArtPadSF is a crossroads for the creative, and an unparalleled marketplace for art. Arts patrons and enthusiasts are invited to take in some of the most exciting contemporary art the market has to offer, as the Phoenix Hotel transforms itself into a visual arts destination with over 40 hotel rooms taken over by galleries and curatorial projects. Join us May 16th through 19th 2013 for screenings, panels, performances, and more.

    ]]>     http://www.gaffta.org/2013/05/10/i-just-want-to-hold-your-hand-exhibited-at-artpadsf/feed/ 0     BACE Timeback (OS Currency) http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/30/bace-timeback-os-currency/ http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/30/bace-timeback-os-currency/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:28:56 +0000 Roxanna Shohadaee http://www.gaffta.org/?p=18601 bace timeback

    Project Description

    The BACE Timebank is a project based on the OSCurrency source, based primarily on Ruby on Rails. We focused this weekend on creating prototypes for increasing accessibility of current and potential timebank members who face digital access issues, such as residents of the mid-market area.

    Website

    http://timebank.sfbace.org
    https://github.com/bace/oscurrency/

    Team Information

    Tom Brown
    Tibet Sprague
    Tracy Scott
    Mira Luna
    Rick Simon
    David Anderson
    Christine Ogu
    Ulises Escobar
    Judith Mayer

    About #CreativeCurrency

    ]]>     http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/30/bace-timeback-os-currency/feed/ 0     Lemonopoly http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/30/lemonopoly/ http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/30/lemonopoly/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:23:38 +0000 Roxanna Shohadaee http://www.gaffta.org/?p=18599 lemonopoly

    Project Description

    Lemonopoly is a game to enhance our local lemon trade.
    The goal of Lemonopoly is to build more community around lemon trading to help the Bay Area become sustainable in one food commodity that grows well locally.
    We trade real, local lemons that grow in backyards, urban farms and public fruit trees.

    Website

    http://lemonopoly.org

    Team Information

    Chach Sikes
    Anselm Hook

    About #CreativeCurrency

    ]]>     http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/30/lemonopoly/feed/ 0     Cloud Funded http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/30/cloud-funded/ http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/30/cloud-funded/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:15:45 +0000 Roxanna Shohadaee http://www.gaffta.org/?p=18596 Team Information David Corson-Knowles Rebecca Zito Amy Farah Weiss Chris Faulkner About #CreativeCurrency]]> cloudfund

    Project Description

    Cloud Funded will provide a user friendly and trusted platform for new and existing local entrepreneurs to showcase their business plans and projects to community members in order to raise the capital they need to move forward.

    Website

    http://cloudfunded.com
    https://github.com/faulkner/catarse/tree/cc-hackathon/a>

    Team Information

    David Corson-Knowles
    Rebecca Zito
    Amy Farah Weiss
    Chris Faulkner

    About #CreativeCurrency

    ]]>     http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/30/cloud-funded/feed/ 0     Gray Area: Creative Code Meetup http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/24/gray-area-creative-code-meetup/ http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/24/gray-area-creative-code-meetup/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:16:25 +0000 jette http://www.gaffta.org/?p=18534 gray_posters_13 copy:without url

    Logistics

    Date: Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
    Times: 7pm – 11pm
    Cost: REGISTER HERE FOR THE MEETUP // $5 – $20 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
    Location: The Lab, 2948 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103

    Join us as we launch the Gray Area Creative Code meetup! We decided to change the name from Creative Technology Forum, and use this as an opportunity for the public to come and learn about new projects from the Creative Code community.

    For the first event we are excited to welcome Art Hack Day founder Olof Mathe to tell us all about the great projects that came from the Art Hack Day he recently held in Stockholm, and artist and Gray Area instructor Ben McChesney will be telling us about his latest explorations. Just added, Wesley Grubbs, Founder of data visualization studio, Pitch Interactive! We will be hosting this event at The Lab!

    Gray Area Creative Code students and community members are encouraged to apply for a speaker slot here: https://podio.com/webforms/807818/32708

    We will continue to update speakers as they are announced. Save the date, come, and hang out!

    Speakers

    Wesley Grubbs

    Speaker

    Wesley Grubbs is an artist, data visualizer and provocateur based in Berkeley, CA. In 2007 he founded Pitch Interactive, a studio who’s focus is weaving code with design with statistics to find versatile solutions to communicate complex data for clients such as Google, Wired, GE, Esquire, Scientific American, Popular Science and the McKnight Foundation.

    Built upon his experiences living abroad, degrees held in International Economics and Information Systems and his innate interest in the brain and cognition, Wes’ work focuses on revealing patterns about human behavior and how our actions impact our surroundings.

    Pitch Interactive’s work spans illustrations, physical installations, console game user interfaces, software applications, websites and textiles. Their work has been showcased at the MoMA’s TalkToMe exhibit in in New York, the McKnight Foundation’s 30 year anniversary exhibit, the Foosaner Art Museum’s “The Art of Networks” exhibit, The Max Planck Science Express Train, the Data Flow books and many other internationally acclaimed publications.

    Olof Mathe

    Speaker

    Olof Mathe is an artist and founder of Art Hack Day.


    Ben McChesney

    Speaker

    Ben McChesney has a eccentric passion for making shiny and fun installations. With the introduction of the Microsoft Kinect sensor his focus shifted from a flash web developer toward Open Frameworks and creating physical experiences. The result of new direction led him to join Helios Interactive, an experience design studio in San Francisco, and spearhead their development team in multi-touch and gesture based installations. He is a recent graduate from Rochester Institute of Technology’s New Media Design and Imaging degree program. In his free time Ben is an amateur economist, musician, and a heck of a dancer. Someday he hopes to use data visualization and open source to make the world a better place.

    ]]>     http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/24/gray-area-creative-code-meetup/feed/ 0     Discover SF Hackathon Recap http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/23/discover-sf-hackathon-recap/ http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/23/discover-sf-hackathon-recap/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:35:47 +0000 GAFFTA http://www.gaffta.org/?p=18569

    The original version of this post appeared on the ESRI blog.

    Last weekend Esri joined forces with Airbnb, the City of San Francisco’s Mayor’s Office of Innovation, and GAFFTA to put on the Discover SF Hackathon.  This event brought together designers, developers, and entrepreneurs to hack the urban experience by promoting discovery and exploration for residents and tourists alike.

     

    A sneak peak at GeoTriggers

    This was also the first public preview of Esri’s new ArcGIS Geotrigger Service!  The API and service connects you with your surroundings so app developers can provide physical context to users.

    To help people get up and running, some of lead GeoTrigger developers were on site to hand out special AppIDs, documentation and samples that the teams could use to build a their own trigger-enabled apps.

    The Winners

    At the end of the event, 12 projects were submitted to the Discover SF Hacker League site.  The projects included some of the most creative and innovative ideas you could imagine.  We even saw an app that coders could use to find other coders based on the location of their commits on GitHub – all in real-time!  How cool is that?

    Grand Prize + Most Innovative Use of Esri Technology Award

    SFPOPOS – This creative team took the overall win which included co-office space for further development of their ideas, $1000 in AWS (Amazon Web Service) credits, plus the Esri award for $2000 plus $250 in ArcGIS Online credits.  Designers and web developers on the team created a simple but elegant website to explain what POPOS were and to showcase the application.  The developers on the team actually implemented the ArcGIS GeoTriggers API with a real working iOS mobile application.  The application automatically detected when you were within a certain proximity of a POPOS and the trigger would automatically send you a text message notification.  You can learn more about the app here.

    The Airbnb Innovation Award

    Fraudio Tours – This team took home the Airbnb Award for $500.  Their mobile web application used your geolocation to provide an audio walking tour of the area (like one you would expect in a museum).  The difference was that the information is written and narrated by a comedian.  What an interesting and entertaining way to discover what’s around you!

    Esri and Twilio Service Credit Award

    Rainbowsomewhere – This team won the Service Credit Award which included $250 of ArcGIS Online credits and $250 Twilio credits.  The web application worked with local weather services to predict the location of rainbows.  The application used your geolocation and an algorithm to calculate the potential locations in 10 minute intervals and displayed the information on a map.

    Where did the data come from?

    A huge collection of data made available for this event and the majority of teams took advantage of the extensive collection from the City of San Francisco’s DataSF Portal – https://data.sfgov.org/ and the ArcGIS Online organization.  Most of their data was published as either ArcGIS Online maps or feature services, so developers could easily load these into their apps.

     You can find a list of all of the data resources on the Hacker League site.

    What about custom datasets and services?

    In order to provide a way for participants to publish and access their own data, we also spun up an ArcGIS Online Hackathon Maps and Services organization.  This included a ton of credits that participants could use to upload, host and even analyze their own data.  And it didn’t take long for a number of teams to jump on board and spin up a few of their own custom geo services.  Here is an interesting one that was created to show the location of Art and Cultural Facilities.

    In the end…

    Overall the hackathon was a huge success.  Not only did it provide an opportunity for the community to demonstrate what apps and tools they thought would be most beneficial to discover the city, but it also gave the City of San Francisco and the participating organizations some great ideas of what they can do to help solve the problem too.  Not to mention, there were some awesome prizes and awards given away!

    From all of the Esri folks that were there, we really enjoyed working with all of the teams and organizations involved, and we look forward to seeing you again at the next one!

    ]]>     http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/23/discover-sf-hackathon-recap/feed/ 0     Darknet gateway http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/19/darknet-gateway/ http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/19/darknet-gateway/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:03:27 +0000 Alejandro Palacios http://www.gaffta.org/?p=18524 Darknet gateway_1

    Project Description

    Self-destructing wifi gateway

    Team Information

    Phillip Nelson
    Robin Willis

    About

    Art Hack Day is an event dedicated to cracking open the process of art-making. Between December 13-15, artists and hackers inhabited GAFFTA to create a flash exhibit on the theme of ‘Lethal software’.

    ]]>     http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/19/darknet-gateway/feed/ 0     Refresh SF http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/18/refresh-sf/ http://www.gaffta.org/2013/04/18/refresh-sf/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:00:15 +0000 Roxanna Shohadaee http://www.gaffta.org/?p=18337 refreshSF

    Project Description

    Refresh SF is a system predicated on the need to promote public health, build awareness of homelessness and encourage giving through an easy to donate system.
    We believe that this first step is in making the simple things such as access to a source of water to cleanse and refresh is the first start in regaining personal dignity and mutual recognition of our humanity.

    Website

    http://www.refreshsf.org/

    Team Information

    Aynne Valencia
    Katie Crepeau
    Khadijah Roussi
    Raul San Narciso
    Stephanie Houston
    Dori Caminone
    Fumiko Docker
    Vivien Park

    About #CreativeCurrency

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