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paper we describe Alien Letter Forms, a software environment for letters to live in and evolve in... more paper we describe Alien Letter Forms, a software environment for letters to live in and evolve into larger texts. Alien Letter Forms builds on technical and conceptual approaches borrowed from research around artificial life systems to create a digital ecology in which text agents live, reproduce, evolve, mutate and die in response to their virtual environment. Individual letters are treated as autonomous agents, where contact between individuals produce offspring composed of new letter combinations up to and including whole words. Evolution is driven further by how well new combinations of letters fit into a set of pre-existing reference texts. The Alien Letter Forms environment is designed to produce a continuously evolving collection of letters that has local stabilities that produce readable text.
In this paper, we present our work on Audiopint, a portable, physically-robust platform for expre... more In this paper, we present our work on Audiopint, a portable, physically-robust platform for expressive musical invention built around Pure Data for audio processing and inexpensive commercially-available hardware. Audiopint is a small ruggedized Linux-based computer with a number of physical and software modi cations. These modi cations are intended to make the platform high-performance and reliable for a live performer, while preserving the exibility of a programmable PC-based system. In addition to communicating our current progress, this paper represents an invitation for a discussion around the relevant design and technology issues.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, 2015
Fine art and design students face a novel set of challenges when asked to realize their creative ... more Fine art and design students face a novel set of challenges when asked to realize their creative vision with code-based projects. In this paper, we discuss the development of a system of tangible tiles and integrated software code factory that is intended to help students build bridges of understanding between proposed interactive and networked experiences and the required computer syntax, software libraries and hardware that animate those proposals. Our tiles help students see relationships between artistic concept and programmatic code by giving them intuitive tools that can be directly manipulated.
Transients is a series of generative animations inspired by the notions of flow, ephemerality and... more Transients is a series of generative animations inspired by the notions of flow, ephemerality and transitory states. The underlying structure of these animations is a database created using GPS data from the Toronto public transit system. The data, available on the web through the Toronto Open Data portal, includes the location, routes and stops of every bus and streetcar in the system, as well as the arrival times of trains within underground subway stations. Custom software created by the artist establishes an aesthetic framework for the data to unfold within, balancing artistic and algorithmic decisions alongside existing patterns within the data.
… proposal for 8th …, Jan 1, 2006
paper we describe Alien Letter Forms, a software environment for letters to live in and evolve in... more paper we describe Alien Letter Forms, a software environment for letters to live in and evolve into larger texts. Alien Letter Forms builds on technical and conceptual approaches borrowed from research around artificial life systems to create a digital ecology in which text agents live, reproduce, evolve, mutate and die in response to their virtual environment. Individual letters are treated as autonomous agents, where contact between individuals produce offspring composed of new letter combinations up to and including whole words. Evolution is driven further by how well new combinations of letters fit into a set of pre-existing reference texts. The Alien Letter Forms environment is designed to produce a continuously evolving collection of letters that has local stabilities that produce readable text.
In this paper, we present our work on Audiopint, a portable, physically-robust platform for expre... more In this paper, we present our work on Audiopint, a portable, physically-robust platform for expressive musical invention built around Pure Data for audio processing and inexpensive commercially-available hardware. Audiopint is a small ruggedized Linux-based computer with a number of physical and software modi cations. These modi cations are intended to make the platform high-performance and reliable for a live performer, while preserving the exibility of a programmable PC-based system. In addition to communicating our current progress, this paper represents an invitation for a discussion around the relevant design and technology issues.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, 2015
Fine art and design students face a novel set of challenges when asked to realize their creative ... more Fine art and design students face a novel set of challenges when asked to realize their creative vision with code-based projects. In this paper, we discuss the development of a system of tangible tiles and integrated software code factory that is intended to help students build bridges of understanding between proposed interactive and networked experiences and the required computer syntax, software libraries and hardware that animate those proposals. Our tiles help students see relationships between artistic concept and programmatic code by giving them intuitive tools that can be directly manipulated.
Transients is a series of generative animations inspired by the notions of flow, ephemerality and... more Transients is a series of generative animations inspired by the notions of flow, ephemerality and transitory states. The underlying structure of these animations is a database created using GPS data from the Toronto public transit system. The data, available on the web through the Toronto Open Data portal, includes the location, routes and stops of every bus and streetcar in the system, as well as the arrival times of trains within underground subway stations. Custom software created by the artist establishes an aesthetic framework for the data to unfold within, balancing artistic and algorithmic decisions alongside existing patterns within the data.
… proposal for 8th …, Jan 1, 2006