Posts

Posts Tagged ‘workshop’

August Workshop: Creative Coding: An Introduction to Processing

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010


iTunes Visualization – A project by instructor Scott Murray.

Back by popular demand, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts introduces our fourth Creative Coding workshop.

Creative Coding: An Introduction to Processing is an introductory-level workshop that explores the creative potential behind Processing, a free and revolutionary programming environment that enables users to create interactive, dynamic, computer-based tools, projects, and art. Over four evenings, participants will explore creative programming in a project-based, collaborative learning environment. Instructor Scott Murray will cover Processing-specific syntax, as well general programming concepts. Creative Coding is intended for absolute beginners. No prior programming experience is necessary, although students with prior programming experience are still welcome to attend.

“Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool.” — processing.org

Classes will be held from 6PM – 9PM:
Tuesday — August 3rd
Thursday — August 5th
Tuesday — August 10th
Thursday — August 12th

Curriculum:
- Syntax
- Shapes
- Color
- Motion
- User input
- Variables
- Operators
- Logic & loops
- Random elements
- Images
- Video
- Type

Other topics will also be explored, according to students’ interests.

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED: PLEASE SIGN UP FOR THE AUGUST WEEKEND INTENSIVE:

http://www.gaffta.org/2010/07/27/august-weekend-intensive-creative-coding-an-introduction-to-processing/

Registered students are expected to arrive on time, with Processing installed on a laptop computer. Processing is compatible with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X machines. Classes are $240 for non-members, and $220 for members.

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Education, GAFFTA, Gatherings, Workshops | 2 Comments »

ViceVerse Workshops: Ableton Live and A/V Feedback

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

2 Hands-On workshops: Intro to Ableton Live, and A/V Feedback
When: Thurs. April 29th | 7pm -10pm
Location: Gray Area 55 Taylor St. SF 94102
Cost: $40 (each workshop limited to 15 students)

Goran Simonoski (Piece of Shh…) will present an Official Intro to Ableton Live Workshop. Participants will need to bring a laptop.

Register for Ableton workshop:

Video feedback is a technique used in the 70s and 80s of the previous century. It is based on closing a video signal (input and output) in a closed circuit. In such a way, we are getting abstract shapes that then can be further manipulated. By using mixers and generators, you can create feedback even without using a camera, or an input signal. The participants will also encounter examples from the history of video art and television, after which they will create their own material. Workshop is conceived and led by Incredible Bob!

Register for A/V feedback workshop:


This program is part of the ViceVerse collaborative tour – San Francisco! April 28th, 29th, and 30th – Full Schedule here
Presented by Gray Area, RML SF, Communikey & Dis-patch

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Education, GAFFTA, Workshops | 2 Comments »

Protected: Creative Coding: Student Information

Monday, February 15th, 2010

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:


Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Education, GAFFTA | Enter your password to view comments.

Creative Coding: An Introduction to Processing

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

1
Color Mapper – A project by Instructor Scott Murray.

Back by popular demand, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts introduces our third Creative Coding workshop, scheduled as part of Gray Area’s educational programming for February 2010.

Creative Coding: An Introduction to Processing is an introductory-level, project-based workshop that explores the creative potential behind Processing, a free and revolutionary programming environment that enables users to create interactive, dynamic, computer-based tools, projects, and art. Over four evenings, participants will explore creative programming in a project-based, collaborative learning environment. Instructor Scott Murray will cover Processing-specific syntax, as well general programming concepts. Creative Coding is intended for absolute beginners. No prior programming experience is necessary, although students with prior programming experience are still welcome to attend.

“Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool.” — processing.org

Classes will be held from 6PM – 9PM:
Tuesday — February 23rd
Thursday — February 25th
Tuesday — March 2nd
Thursday — March 4th

Curriculum:
- Syntax
- Shapes
- Color
- Motion
- User input
- Variables
- Operators
- Logic & loops
- Random elements
- Images
- Video
- Type
- Functions
- Objects

Other topics will also be explored, according to students’ interests.

Registered students are expected to arrive on time, with Processing installed on a laptop computer. Processing is compatible with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X machines. Arrangements can be made for students unable to supply their own computer by contacting ss@gaffta.org. Classes are $240 for non-members, and $220 for members.

This workshop has officially sold out! Please email: Education@gaffta.org for the waitlist

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Education, GAFFTA, Workshops | 2 Comments »

YBCA + Kamau Patton

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

3793084638_2534904e11

Bay Area-based video and performance artist Kamau Patton.
presents the multi-media installation Icons of Attention. Modeled after 1930s science fiction broadcasts and underground 1980s music shows, the artist experiments with radio’s potential to bring the distant, fantastic or confusing into vivid, close proximity for audiences.

Patton has invited local performance art personalities, musicians and intellectuals to participate in a dynamic workshop/studio environment and improvise with installed objects, print media and sound. The artist develops narratives and sound scripts in collaboration with invited guests, asking gallery visitors to perform various tasks which include voice dramatizations, sampling and special effects. A low-power radio transmitter at YBCA allows listeners within a two-mile radius to tune in to the installation, which is activated and broadcast by the audience’s interaction with the installation. Icons of Attention encourages a freedom of imagination, interpretation and emotional response in the viewer that is not based on the literal or the descriptive, but rather on the abstract qualities of sound and image.

Workshops:
Saturday:
January 30th — 2PM–4PM
February 6th — 2PM–4PM
February 13th — 2PM–4PM

Thursday:
February 11th — 6PM–8PM
February 18th — 6PM–8PM

All workshop studios are free with gallery admission.

Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in Education, Gatherings, Inspiration, Neighborhood | 1 Comment »

Soft Circuit Workshop: Grace Kim

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Presents:
Soft Circuit Workshop with Grace Kim
Saturday, January 23rd, 30th, and February 6th
12PM-4PM

softcircuit3

Soft Circuit will cover basics of wearable technology. Workshop participants will be given a historical overview of wearables in the context of fashion, art, and technology. Instructor Grace Kim will share basic sewing and embroidery techniques and tips on how to repurpose everyday sewing procedure for use in wearables projects. Students will be given project-based instruction on basic circuitry and will construct soft circuits using conductive thread and fabric. No prior experience with electronics or sewing required. All materials and fees are included. Limited space available.

Day One:
History and context
Measuring energy
Creating a circuit on a breadboard
Soft circuit basics
Embroidery basics
Introduction to switches (including how to turn everyday sewing notions into switches)
Workshop time: make an LED wristband
Assignment: prototype a concept of an exaggerated sense

Day Two:
Class presentations
Introduction to resistance (including how to use a multimeter)
Introduction to sensors
Workshop time: make a tote bag that lights up when your cell phone receives an incoming call
(students may not be able to complete the full project in this time. Rather the assignment would be that the student finishes the project on their own time, or extra workshop time will be delegated in the next class)
Assignment: prototype a concept of the electronic gesture

Day Three:
Class presentations
Demonstration of advanced materials (different types of conductive fabric, felt resistors, LED-integrated fabric, el paper)
Demonstration of LIilypad and other microcontrollers.
Demonstration of advanced sensors (accelerometer, etc)
Battery management
Looking for components in unexpected places: hacking old electronics and toys
Workshop time: perhaps finish tote bag or workshop future project ideas with students


The workshop is full, thanks for your interest!

Questions? email: info [at] gaffta [dot] org

Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in Education, Workshops | 3 Comments »

Call for projects on digital facades, Spain

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

550_0

Call for projects on digital facades: Open Up

Deadline: December 10, 2009
Dates of the workshop: February 9 through 23, 2010
Venue: Medialab-Prado in Madrid (Spain).

Worskhop tutors: Jordi Claramonte, Chandler McWilliams, Casey Reas, and Víctor Viña. Directed and coordinated by Nerea Calvillo.

Open Up is a workshop for the development of projects for the digital façade in Medialab-Prado’s building. This call is addressed to the presentation of proposals to be collaboratively developed during the workshop-seminar taking place in Madrid from February 9 through 23, 2010.

The goal is to explore the relation between the urban screen and public space, to experiment with the screen’s communicative, narrative and visual capacities and to investigate its potential to offer new forms of participation such as receiving and participating in the different phases of content production. Selected projects will be developed under the supervision of teachers, technical assistants and an extensive group of collaborators.

Projects presented in this call will have to explore aspects such as: development of strategies for public participation, activation of urban space through the screen, foster public visibility of agents that normally have none, visualization of public collectives; interaction with portable devices, etc.

All those interested in collaborating in one of the selected projects can sign in from January 5 through February 8, 2010.

Check the call guidelines and submit your project before December 10, 2009. No entry fees.
http://medialab-prado.es/article/open_up

More information and call guidelines:
medianeralab (at) medialab-prado.es

Venue:
Medialab-Prado
Plaza de las Letras
Calle Alameda, 15
28014 Madrid (Spain)

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Calls for Submissions | No Comments »

Workshop: Creative Coding w/Processing

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

drawing tool

Image: “Drawing Tool” by Gabriel Dunne (custom software)



Workshop: Creative Coding (with Processing)
Instructor: Gabriel Dunne
Email: gdunne@gaffta.org
Schedule: Saturday Nov 21, and Sunday Nov 22. 1pm to 6pm



Syllabus

Overview (2-Day Intensive)

Introduction to the concepts of creating visual work with your own custom software. Coding concepts and skills will be taught through the hands-on creation of projects and will set a foundation for future creative programming endeavors in other languages and methods.

Code will be written with Processing (http://processing.org). Processing is a free and open-source platform created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a creative context and to serve as a software sketchbook. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, and researchers for learning, prototyping, and production. Attendees are not required to have any prior programming knowledge, but it is welcomed.


Schedule

DAY 1

Hello
Overview of Software and Art
Gray Area artist presentations

    Project: Form, Repetition, Texture

  • Pixels
  • Form
  • Shape
  • Loops
  • Logic Structures


  • Project: Drawing
  • Color
  • Text
  • Functions
  • Input
  • Interaction


  • Project: Motion and Time
  • Function parameters
  • Translation, Rotation
  • Matrixes
  • 3D
  • Time
  • Sequence


DAY 2

Presentation, discussion of works.

  • Project: Character & Behavior
  • Objects
  • Constructors
  • Multiple Objects
  • Inheritance
  • Arrays


  • Project: Media, Manipulation, Libraries
  • External code
  • External Media
  • Video
  • Image
  • Sound
  • Data Files


Project: Exploration

Wrap up: Class work showing


You will need your own laptop running Windows, Linux, or OS X. If you do not have a laptop, please get in touch when registering.

Registration is now closed. Please check back for future workshop announcements!

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Workshops | 4 Comments »

Paleolithic Workshop: Machine Project

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Dear Friends,

1) Since Machine started we've presented workshops covering topics that are esoteric (meat cloning, ghille suit making), technical (arduino, basic electronics), and practical (machine sewing 101, kimchi making). What we haven't covered is the technologies of the stone age. We're pleased to announce we're now filling this embarrassing hole in our curriculum with a set of four workshops covering the following...

* Making of stone knives by hand using stone, antlers, and leather.
* Basket weaving for gathering nuts and berries.
* Manufacturing rope and cordage from palm fronds and other plant fibers.
* Creating fire without matches.

Space is limited, so to avoid feeling outsmarted by the next caveman you encounter, sign up now.
http://machineproject.com/go/paleolithic

Love,

Machine

Machine Project is a nonprofit organization that relies on support from lovely people like you – become a member today

http://machineproject.com/membership/

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Inspiration | No Comments »

Creative Coding: An Introduction to Processing

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Saturday, October 3rd &  Sunday, October 4th. 1:00 – 6:00pm at Gray Area, 55 Taylor St, San Francisco

The first in a series of workshops on digital art-making, Presented by the Gray Area Artist Residency Program. This 2-day workshop will introduce you to the world of creative coding with Processing, a free programming environment that enables you to create interactive, dynamic, computer-based tools, projects, and art.


Description

From Processing.org

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool.

 

Curriculum

  • What is Processing, and what can you do with it?
  • Creativity and Programming
  • Input, Output
  • Visuals
  • Animation, movement
  • Logic
  • Using data
  • Using Processing libraries
  • Programming Structures
  • Exporting, packaging and publishing Processing sketches.
  • How to teach yourself more

 


More Information

The workshops will be led by GAFFTA residents Gabriel Dunne, Ryan Alexander, Daniel Massey, and local artist and designer Scott Murray. with special guest and co-creator of processing Casey Reas in attendance to offer insights on his works on display in GAFFTA’s inaugural exhibition, OPEN.


Workshop Materials

Laptop computer with Windows, Linux, or OS X. You may download Processing from processing.org.


Registration is limited to 25 students, and we have sold out! Stay tuned… more workshop announcements coming soon!

For more information, contact workshops at gaffta dot org

Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in Workshops | 7 Comments »

;