Slides for my holiday science lecture entitled "Art, Life and Programming". Video slides removed, youtube videos inserted.

1. ,
,
and
Cate Huston

2. This is not so much a talk about
computers, rather a talk about
people and the things we can
and do create using them.

3. Do you want to change the world?

4. A. Programmer.

5. The first programmer

6. Guess Who?

7. Creator of Facebook

9. Art

10. What is art?

11. Is this art?

12. A different way to tell a story

13. A new kind of installation

14. A new means of creation

15. Digital meets traditional

16. A digitally created city

17. Something completely innovative

18. Art?

19. Math?

20. Art?

21. Math?

22. Art?

23. Math?

24. Art?

25. Math?

26. Art?

27. Math?

28. Both?

29. These are known as Fractals

34. Life

40. China
Canada US

42. Old Style Blog Design

45. What’s Next?

46. Programming

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48. Alice

49. Warcraft World Editor

50. Remember This?

51. Created using Java and Processing

52. Created using Java and Prefuse

53. Created using Haskell, Python and
Java and Prefuse

55. Human innovation is INCREDIBLE!
Push boundaries!
Be limited only by your imagination!
Experiment!

56. @kittenthebad
www.catehuston.com
catehuston@googlewave.com

57. Credit: flickr / e-strategyblog.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/e-strategycom/
1054179352/
Credit: flickr / david.nikonvscanon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikonvscanon/
1295668819/
Credit: flickr / Joaquín Martínez Rosado
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
25876167@N08/3694927599/
Twitter “fail whale”
http://www.twitter.com/
Screenshot from http://wetellstories.co.uk/

58. Screenshot from http://
www.oneandother.co.uk/
Cover of the New Yorker, May 2009. By Jorge
Columbo - http://jorgecolombo.com/
Image from http://www.postsecret.com/
“Pixel City”, created by Shamus Young http://
www.shamusyoung.com/ Video available at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d2-PtK4F6Y
Images and Video from I Want You To Want
Me, by Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar
http://iwantyoutowantme.org/

59. Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
File:Mandel_zoom_00_mandelbrot_set.jpg
Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
File:Mandel_zoom_14_satellite_julia_island.j
pg
Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
File:PentagramFractal.PNG
Wikipedia, http://upload.wikimedia.org/
wikipedia/commons/2/21/
Hidden_Mandarin_fractal_Sterling2_3365.jpg
Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
File:Julian_fractal.jpg

60. Images created using Processing
http://www.processing.org
Timeline created using Timeline 3D by Bee
Docs. http://www.beedocs.com/index.php
Credit: flickr / takomabibelot
http://www.flickr.com/photos/takomabibelot/
3050589967/
Video available at http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=LP_hAszQPgk
Credit: flickr / Kuzeytac ( So, SO busy...)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kuzeytac/
3459680851/

61. Credit: flickr / HuTDoG83
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
hutdog83/3780329473/
Photo taken at Museum of Science and
Technology in Tokyo, Japan
Credit: flickr / just Luh.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
meaning_absence/2893923578/
Credit: flickr / KhE
http://www.flickr.com/photos/khedara/
2441552217/
Credit: flickr / hichako
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/
3142612031/

62. Credit: flickr / macwagen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/macwagen/
2143505195/
Credit: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jeeves-
in-2009.jpg
Credit: flickr / Dunechaser
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/
134672040/
Photo taken at Museum of Science and
Technology in Tokyo, Japan
Ada Lovelace
Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
File:Ada_lovelace.jpg

63. Credit: flickr / Dunechaser
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/
134672066/
Credit: flickr / Dunechaser
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/
160405786/
Credit: flickr / Laughing Squid
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/
986509157/
Credit: flickr / Robert S. Donovan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/booleansplit/
2376359338/
Credit: flickr / Wayan Vota
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
dcmetroblogger/212196724/

64. Credit: flickr / Pink Sherbet Photography
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/
238034272/
Figures from http://
www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Old style blog design from http://
www.shirky.com/
Kevin Cornell, http://www.bearskinrug.co.uk/
Markus Zeeh, http://
mein.meerblickzimmer.de/

65. Veerle Pieters, http://veerle.duoh.com/
Oliver Wagner, http://www.agenturblog.de/
Roman Leinwather, http://www.lewro.com/
Manuela Hoffmann, http://
www.surfgarden.de/
Nick La, http://www.webdesignerwall.com/

66. Pedro Vitor Lamin Júnior, http://
www.pedrolamin.com.br/
Design Disease, http://designdisease.com/
blog/
Credit: flickr / Steven2005
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
steven2005/533973895/
Image from http://wave.google.com/help/
wave/about.html
Credit: flickr / Meddy Garnet
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meddygarnet/
3675160196/

67. Credit: flickr / Joe Wilcox
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joewilcox/
4139679271/
Image from http://www.innosight.com/blog/
apple_tablet.jpg
Images from http://www.alice.org
Image used with permission of Kelvin Schutz
Credit: flickr / Vermin Inc
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vermininc/
2337307518/