This is an introduction to what creative coding is, and a review of projects in which artists use code as a medium. More info about the workshop at http://faltastico.tumblr.com/post/97959317872/last-week-i-did-a-two-day-creative-coding

1. Creative Coding - البمججة البدداعية
Youssef Faltas
ASCII, 2014

2. Outline
● What is Creative Coding?
● Projects
● Let's code

4. The Myth
● Logic + Algorithims + Procedure
= Code
= Mechanical
● Fantasy + Imagination + Impulse
= Creativity
= Art
Therefore Code can not be Creative

5. “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
- Pablo Picasso

6. "For a mathematician, he didn't have enough imagination. But he's
become a poet and now he's fine."
- Hilbert on an ex-student

8. How then?
● Code is more than a tool
● Code is mathematical --> Beauty, Complexity
● Code can be surprising --> Emergence
● Code can be interactive --> Playfulness
● Code can be Creative

9. Creative Coding
+
Sensors
=
Creative Technology

10. Possibilities
● Data Visualization
● Generative Art
● AudioVisual installation
● Projection Mapping
● Interactive envirnoments

11. Projects
-Data Visualization
● Wind Map http://hint.fm/wind/
● Flight Patterns
http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatter
ns/
● silenc http://vimeo.com/39114742
● Cinematrics
http://cinemetrics.fredericbrodbeck.de/
● City Symphonies
http://markmckeague.com/work/city-symphoni
es/
-Projection Mapping
● Pomplamoose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7X8ZnmL
fM0
● Omote http://vimeo.com/103425574
● Line Segments Space
http://vimeo.com/90047240
-Generative
● Process Compendium http://vimeo.com/22955812
-AudioVisual Installations
● Communion http://www.field.io/project/communion/
-Interactive Envirnoments
● The Rain Room http://vimeo.com/51830893
● My Little Piece of Privacy
http://www.niklasroy.com/project/88/my-little-piece-of
-privacy
● Sniff http://www.gravitytrap.com/artwork/sniff
● Hipster Phone http://www.medrar.org/OLE/?p=494
Interesting links
● http://www.creativeapplications.net/
● http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/
● Hello World! Processing http://vimeo.com/60735314

12. P5
“Processing seeks to ruin the careers of talented designers by tempting
them away from their usual tools and into the world of programming
and computation. Similarly, the project is designed to turn engineers and
computer scientists to less gainful employment as artists and designers.”
هذا البرنامج يسعى إلى تخريب مهن المصممين الموهوبين من خلل اغرائهم بالبعد عن أدوات
التصميم المعتادة وإلى عالم البرمجة والحوسبة. وبالمثل، قد صمم المشروع لتغيير مسار المهندسين
.وعلماء الكمبيوتر للعمل بأجر أقل كفنانين ومصممين
- http://www.processing.org

13. P5Cairo
بروسيسنج القاهرة هو تجمع مفتوح لمستخدمي البرمجة في القاهرة لنتاج مخرجات
.ابداعية وتبادل النصائح والموارد وتقنيات البرمجة في اجتماعات شهرية
نسعي إلي تحفيز مختلف التجاهات البداعية من خلل تكامل اهتماماتنا في التصميم
.والفنون والعمارة والصوت و الويب و التكنولوجيا واللعاب والفيديو والرؤية الحاسوبية
في ذلك نستخدم أدوات مختلفة مثل
Processing. Puredata. OpenFrameworks.
Quartz Composer. Python. Kinect. Arduino.
at https://www.facebook.com/processingCairo