Processing: Saving Images

Saved Frame (Perlin Noise based)

So you made something cool in Processing... now what?  Whats that you say? you haven't made anything cool in Processing yet?  Here are some tutorials to get you started with this versatile and fairly easy to learn programming.  Additionally, Processing has excellent documentation describing how to utilize the most commonly used objects.

Now that you've begun to create digital art using code, you may want to share it with your friends.  Actually, that was probably one of your goals to begin with...  There are a few options that Processing offers right out of the box that allow you to make images and movies from your sketches.  Saving images is actually quite easy and only requires a small bit of code.  The object we will explore in this tutorial is called saveFrame().

Communikey11!!

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Opening Night at Bombay Bistro

Wow, it was only a week ago, but time is just flying by.  Communikey, for those of you who don't know is Boulder, Colorado's Festival of Electronic Art and Music.  Check out past year's festivals.  I've been involved for the past 3 years, and attending for the past 4.  This was the fourth edition of the festival, and it was a tremendous success.  My role is to act as technical lead at various venues and assist with tech issues as they arise.

Normal Ones and Jason from offthesky in the ATLAS Black Box
  
This is a fairly media heavy post, so please bear with the loading times :)  And there's lots more after the break and on Flickr and YouTube.

 

Pulshar at the ATLAS Black Box

Sneak preview of Blink! at the DAM

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Blink! - Light, Sound and the Moving image

I was fortunate enough to be invited to the opening reception for Blink!, at the Denver Art Museum (DAM).  The exhibit, which opens on March 13th, is an exciting new media exploration with works ranging from the mid 80s through 2011.  A wide variety of works are shown including digital and analog film/video, new media sculpture and projection art.  There are even a few interactive pieces. 

The Denver Art Museum

Ian Bogost: The Material Constraints of Art and Programming

Double Plus Good... I was planning on attending this lecture, and then was asked to work the event.  Score.  I got to get paid to go, and had a few extra moments to speak with Ian.  Not only that, it was amazing.

Ian Bogost at ATL&S' Black Box Theater

Ian Bogost is a media philosopher and designer who focuses particularly on video games.  He is a professor at Georgia Tech and accomplished author.  This afternoon Ian gave an excellent presentation about the evolution of not only video game media, but also some of the theory behind material constraints.  For example, he programs for an Atari system, but is limited not only by the amount of RAM he can use, but also the number of addressable sprites and objects is 'limited'.  These boundaries, Ian poses, help to define the creativity that goes into the utilization of these types of tools.  This goes for older systems like Atari, or even newer platforms like like the XBox360 or PS3.

Get ready for CMKY11 !

Only 6 weeks till Communikey11!

For those of you who don't know... Communikey is Boulder's yearly electronic art and music festival, and this is our fourth year!  Right now were looking for volunteers for all kinds of different things.  I'm helping out with transportation, so if you want to volunteer to get a free festival pass, click here.

A few of the acts slated to perform at the 4th edition of the Communikey Festival include:

- ATOM TM 

-Ableton developer MONOLAKE 

- MARK MCGUIRE of Emeralds

- DARK DARK DARK performing as themselves and to the film FLOOD TIDE REMIXED 

-Detroit legend MIKE HUCKABY 

-Zizek Record’s CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO and label head EL G, the audio responsive dynamic lighting installation of AUDIOPIXEL 

-tape loop artist WILLIAM BASINSKI 

-The Bunker’s mastermind returning for a 3rd appearance, SPINOZA

-and my personal favorite GAMELATRON - a fully robotic Gamelan Orchestra!

Of course there will be more to come!  So to whet you're appetite and encourage you to click on the volunteer form... I've attached some pictures from last years festival after the break... Enjoy!

C3 showcase at DU

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I was unexpectedly invited to a new media showcase at the new Digital Media Studies and Electronic Arts, Media, and Design center at the University of Denver.  These are two degrees the university offers.  Their new center "C3" (Center for Creation and Collaboration) had just recently been finished and this was the inaugural gallery event.  I didn't know exactly what kind of work I'd be seeing, other than the work of students and instructors of the various programs.  I was invited by Synthia Payne who might possibly be teaching a Digital Audio and Telematic Music course next semester (if you're intrested, email her).

Bridging Imaginary Boundaries

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Back in March, Synthia Payne and John Gunther organized a telematic music event "Memory and the Internet".  This was a collaboration between CU, NYU, and KAIST in Korea over Internet2.  Gunther and Payne returned this Fall for another installation of the event, "Bridging Imaginary Boundaries".  I feel these remote performances are truly on the cutting edge of music technology, so I was very excited to have another such collaboration.  For this version, we changed a few things, and collaborated with IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue at University of Indiana) as opposed to KAIST.

Communikey 10

Wow, Communikey 10 was a blast.  This year I was a member of the technical support crew.  I assisted with the planning and performance of the Artificiel performance "POWEr" as well as the other performances and workshops in the black box.  This was the third installment of the festival, and Communikey 11 is already being planned.  Other events I was involved with included the Lucky Dragons' workshops, "Make a Baby", D Numbers' "Chop Shop", performances by White Rainbow, Lissom, and a special guest performance by the eccentrically brilliant Xavier van Wersch.  Peter Kirn also gave a lecture about Processing.  You can see more about the many other events and performances on the Communikey 10 website.  I also have lots of documentation of the event.

'The Interactive Piano' TAM Capstone Thesis Installation

The Technology, Arts & Media (TAM) certificate is [was] a 21 credit hour program that the ATL&S building offers. [It is now a minor known as MTAM] It consists of classes on digital/social theory, specific graphic/web/video/etc software programs, and a Capstone class. For my thesis installation, I chose to design an exhibit using the building's player piano. You can read about it and see videos and pictures HERE.

This was an extremely interesting project that involved an exciting new blend of technology, music, and networking. I sent hundreds of emails to jump through all the red tape for arranging the specifics of the project and getting various permissions. But, in the end it was worth it, as I was awarded the 'Best in Show' award for the best Capstone exhibit. Check out the vids and pics (at the link above and the video below), this was a very rewarding project to pull off.

Check out Paul Hembree, Anthony Green, Hunter Ewen, Nathan Wheeler, & Matthew Browne