Processing event next week

November 19th, 2008 admin Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Super Excited for this :)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am very, very excited to announce:
Next Friday (11/21) afternoon the creators of the Processing language, Ben Fry, Casey Reas, as well as some other leading Processing developers (Dan Shiffman, Andres Colubri  and Julio Obelleiro) will be joining me to present Processing to the Miami community. The presentation will include what Processing is, what it does and where it’s going. The latter point is especially relevant as Miami has become the launch site for version 1.0 of the software. Through generous funding from AIMS, Miami is hosting 6 Processing summits this year (4 on the Oxford campus)–this event being part of the 2nd summit–to build, plan and launch the future of Processing. The launch of Processing 1.0 will be  a major achievement in the digital arts world that will literally impact digital arts curricula around the globe, as well as professional digital arts practice–including at leading design, communications, architectural, etc studios. Processing, during its alpha and beta release stages, has already been recognized with the Golden Nica, the top award (from Ars Electronica) in the digital arts. It is also being taught globally and featured prominently in major international art venues, such as the recent Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at MOMA, NYC. I urge all arts faculty to encourage students to attend this event, and I hope to see many of you in attendance as well.

Very Best,
Ira

Event details:
Processing Presentation

·         When:  Friday, November 21, 2008 – 4:30pm

·        Where:  336 Shriver Center

 
Ira Greenberg
Associate Professor
Interactive Media Studies | Art

Affiliate 
Computer Science & Systems Analysis

Miami University
greenbi@muohio.edu
http://iragreenberg.com

Processing: Creative coding and Computational Art
http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=159059617X

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Content - Content - Content

November 19th, 2008 admin Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Finally I have proof that you need to have content and be linked in everywhere.

 

 

The importance of content

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christian@rivershark.com sent you a link to content of interest

November 19th, 2008 admin Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

christian@rivershark.com sent you a link to the following content:

My Apple Curse Strikes Again, but Apple Store Saves the Day
http://www.notebooks.com/2008/11/07/my-apple-curse-strikes-again-but-apple-store-saves-the-day/

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This is why i dont buy shit from walmart


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God wrath

November 19th, 2008 admin Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The power went out today, and and interesting thing happened. Eveyone came out of their houses and seem to be having a good time, from hang out and playing guitar to throwing a football. It seems that these little bumps in comfort tend to make people shift their routine and I think that is somehow good, given the world we live in.

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A silly art project

November 19th, 2008 admin Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Ok, 

Well its my last semester of college and i started keeping all of my armbands on my wrist from the bars, mostly due to the my apathetic nature, but now i decided to turn it into some from of a history of my last semester of college. I take a picture everyday and twitpic it up. I dont really know what this means, but i just thought it would be an interesting way to record time and history.

 

If you are interested follow me on twitter.

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columns of comsumption

August 28th, 2008 admin Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

It occured to me that i need to make “trash” art. Art that references american culture and the way we use things. and by things i mean anything - concumption of anything.

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Consumption

June 26th, 2008 admin Posted in Drawing 5 | No Comments »

A funny thing happened to me the other wednesday, when i was laying around on my couch watching tv on hulu. I realized how much of consumers we are, especially in this country, and when people think of consumption they usually refer to things you can buy, but when i say it it is anything that you use, that you consume; tv, air, food, community etc.. I often wonder if my balance sheet for consuming and ,i guess for lack of a better term now, distributing is ever balanced. Are the things that i take form this world equal to the things that i give back?? Maybe its not taking and giving the same thing, but if there was a way to gauge how that meter globally was looking like then maybe we would have a lot of the problems that we have. I think the first step is to get away from such a me-centric society in the here United States, and look at how choices affect everybody.

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Little bit of inspiration.

June 26th, 2008 admin Posted in Drawing 5 | No Comments »

We all have our morning routines, Mine starts out with COFFEE because without coffee i am useless. After the caffeine kicks in i usually make a round of my favorite blogs and news site to see whats going on in the world. I hit some of the big ones like nytimes.com and guardian.co.uk and the bbc.co.uk, and if i had tv i would watch FOX news, just so that way i could be fair and balanced, but i also check out more individually interesting sites.

For Instance designklub and dezeen are great jumping off points for aesthetic news. Designklub is more of a design and craft driven blog, which is great because currently i am working a lot with craft in ceramics, and Dezeen is more of an Architectural meeting place.

Also I am doing a lot of digital work and a computer is a big part of my life (not that the world would end if i didnt have one) I look at engadget , TUAW , and the processing website. All of these places lead to other places that i can organize, read rss or atom feeds and keep up to date on whats happening in those fields.

The last few places i go are music websites to keep up to date like pitchfork and metacritic.

But the most important of all is www.dogwalkblog.com.

 

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A sketchbook for the 21st century.

June 26th, 2008 admin Posted in Daily sketches, Drawing 5 | No Comments »

Keeping a sketch book for me has always been a problem, because of the way I process information. Usually when i learn something I tie it to something else and thereby building a web of experiences, that all correlate an build on each other. The linearity of an old sketch book tends to separate thoughts instead of unifying them. There is no way of keeping a current dynamic log of events and things that you have seen and read. This is why I use a computer to keep ideas together, because i can always search through stuff to find it, spending less time organizing things and more time producing. Especially with what I do, I need a dynamic way of tagging things and keeping a constant flow of ideas.

 

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Corporations want everything!!!

June 5th, 2008 admin Posted in Daily sketches | No Comments »

What is a corporation?? Well it is this thing that only exists on paper and is greedier than any one person. So the MLB was trying to sue a company that does a fantasy baseball league on the grounds that using the players names and stats is an infringement on MLB trademarks. 

How silly is this? C’mon, as far as I’m concerned these are things that happened not things people own. Corporations are getting greedier and greedier. Especially in the domain of genetic engineering. Monsanto, an prolific perpetrator of patenting living life forms because of what they altered. I just wonder when the day will come when you can claim rights to another human being.

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