Programming Art

As soon as computers had visual displays or printouts, people were using them to create art. In this presentation we'll take a short look at the history of computer generated art, and a hands-on walk through of several of the available programs and languages used for that purpose today, including Flash, Processing, Structure Synth, NodeBox, Context Free, Open Frameworks, and maybe others. Who its for: Anyone interested in making static or interactive generative art with code. What attendees will take from it: An introduction and sampling of several programs and languages for creating generative art.

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Keith began playing with Flash in 1999. After a couple of years making really horrible Flash web sites and huge intros, he discovered ActionScript, and has not looked back. Keith\'s award winning personal experimental web site, www.bit-101.com features over 500 cutting edge flash experiments, with source available. It also has a series of tutorials on ActionScript which have been downloaded countless times and translated into many languages. Keith has written or contributed to eleven books on Flash and written several magazine articles on various Flash subjects.

Keith lives near Boston, MA in the USA, where he is officially the Engineering Guru at Infrared5