Golan Levin
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Just learned about Japanese visual multiplication (counting intersections); mind blown.
http://t.co/4Egwf3ASRk
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My student
@LingdongH
has released 文言, or wenyan, an esoteric programming language that closely follows the grammar and tone of classical Chinese literature. There's an online IDE, and it compiles to JS or Python. Github: Site:
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Newly discovered Scarry book about Lowly Worm features a revealing look at his underpant (cc
@Bwycz
http://t.co/WT8haLjkhI
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HOT NEWS!! "Code as Creative Medium" by
@golan
&
@tegabrain
— featuring creative coding exercises and assignments collected from across our community — is now out! If you teach computational new media art and design, we made this for you! 😊📘🎨🤖🎉
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Dear
@ChristiesInc
@gcerutti
: As you advertise the authenticity of Warhol's "five original drawings" on the NFT blockchain, I'm concerned that your collectors might be confused about what they're bidding on—since you're not auctioning the originals, which were created at 320x200.
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Child showing mother a picture on a laptop. Greek, circa 110 BC. Marble.
http://t.co/euLlkauAES
via
@moritz_stefaner
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I may be an ass, but I am no longer an Ass. Professor. Huge thanks to everyone who supported me. Time to give back.
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Thrilled to share this glimpse of the just-approved cover of
@tegabrain
+my forthcoming book, with breathtaking art by the amazing Manolo Gamboa Naon, and incredibly kind endorsements by
@digitalcoleman
,
@ChristianePaul2
, and
@johnmaeda
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In order to make a generative drawing, you must first make the generative paper to draw it on.
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Just putting this here for safekeeping. "Formula for Computer Art" (2000), by Jim Campbell.
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Hi friends, here's a hopefully fun thread: What are your favorite browser-based creative arts tools/playthings that use AI or Machine Learning? Let's make a list, I'll kick it off. Please respond below!
#MachineLearning
#Art
#Tools
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When we presented these Warhol Amiga works in
@CreativeInquiry
's 30th anniversary exhibition (2019), per contract with
@thewarholmuseum
, we compromised: we displayed unscaled 320x200 PNGs, served from a modern PC, via analog composite video, on an authentic 1985 Amiga monitor.
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I'm legit curious whether anyone at
@ChristiesInc
stopped to wonder how Warhol could make a 6000x4500-pixel image in 1985. Did they think, "that's odd"? or "27MP, wow, he was way ahead of his time"? or "whatever; collectors expect hi-res from blue-chip art"? or just "ZOMG NFT$$"
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Hello friends: I bring a tiny shard of something good during dark times. My
@creativeinquiry
student
@LingdongH
has created pedagogic
@p5xjs
&
@threejs_org
wrappers for the
@GoogleAI
#MediaPipe
hand tracker, including multiplayer demos on
@glitch
:
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Thrilled to announce Terrapattern, a visual search engine for satellite imagery!
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Generative plots by
@CMUSchoolofArt
+
@CMUIDeATe
undergraduates in my
#PlotterTwitter
"Drawing with Machines" course at
@creativeinquiry
. The prompt here was to write code to create a family of (hatched) blobs. Works shown by Sarah Di,
@MinskyLeah
, Jean Cho, &
@_aahdee_
.
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Google has just released high-quality 3D face-tracking and hand pose tracking in the browser, with
@TensorFlow
.
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If you enjoy typography, computation, RNNs, & Chinese characters, check out the "Recursive Radical Packing Language" developed by my student Lingdong Huang.
Github:
Interactive apps
@glitch
:
(cc
@hardmaru
@genekogan
@otherthings
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Here is a brief thread about large-run printed books with generative cover designs. (For the purposes of this repository, "generative" means each copy is unique, and "large run" means I'm not considering print-on-demand. Thanks to everyone who sent links.)
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It should be clear that a 6000x4500 image in Amiga's uncompressed .PIC format could not possibly fit on a 1.4MB floppy, nor in the Amiga 1000's 512kb RAM. I'm not sure if your collectors care that they're bidding on a secondary by-product, but I would.
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Cultural institutions, galleries and publishers constantly think that "high resolution" means "best-quality" or "original". This totally fails for low-resolution originals, such as the actual originals of the Warhol Amiga drawings, which were created at 320x200.
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In creative coding news,
@LingdongH
presents "Wax": a tiny language that easily transpiles to C, Java, TypeScript, and other languages. Write your algorithm in Wax; the code it generates will work in (e.g.)
@p5xjs
,
@ProcessingOrg
, and
@openFrameworks
.
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just fixed a bug in my code from 1997. half a lifetime ago. this turd has been bothering me for 24 years
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"Iterative Pattern" (generative wallpaper) projects created by first-year BFA undergraduates in my introductory new-media course at
@CMUSchoolofArt
. Made with
@p5xjs
.
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Amazing achievement. The magicians at
@rhizomatiks
have built a system to track the tip of a sword, and display it in real-time augmented reality (
#AR
), non-invasively (with no encumbrance or interference to the competitors), for e.g. Olympic fencing.
#ExCap
第72回全日本フェンシング選手権大会にて採用された、AR技術を用いて剣先の軌跡を可視化する基幹技術「Points of a sword visualization system」をライゾマティクスが開発しています。
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My students
@graycrawford
&
@aman_gif
created a subtle gestural instrument for interactively navigating the latent space of bigGAN imagery. Developed at
@creativeinquiry
, XOROMANCY uses
@LeapMotion
sensors and abuses GPU hardware kindly donated by
@nvidia
:
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Delighted to announce that
#PEmbroider
,
@creativeinquiry
's library for computational embroidery in
@ProcessingOrg
, is now public! Huge gratitude to
@LingdongH
,
@mus_akos
, and our cohort of generous beta-testers for all their work.
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I’m prepping for my fall “Drawing with Machines” course, and I have never been quite so humbled as by this amazing book by
@lostritto
. “Computational Drawing” is required reading for new-media arts educators teaching
#plottertwitter
&
@DrawingBots
material.
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If you're interested in writing code to create seamless GIF loops, I've made some templates (in
@ProcessingOrg
,
@p5xjs
, and
@processingpy
) for doing so:
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Friends, it's my final week as Director of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for
@CreativeInquiry
. It's been an immense privilege to shepherd this remarkable Third Space for the past 14 years—an improbability incubator and creativity cocoon for an amazing community of hybrids and oddkins.
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Currently prepping a 1985 Amiga CRT to 'authentically' display born-digital paintings by Andy Warhol—discovered languishing on old floppies in 2014 at
@TheWarholMuseum
by
@cory_arcangel
&
@cl0x
, with support from
@creativeinquiry
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Amazing. Undersea cables are all sheathing; the internet runs on just 3 strands of fiber optics.
http://t.co/KP1Lw9E7ei
via
@rachelbinx
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Thrilled to announce that
@creativeinquiry
has received a $100K grant from the
@NEAarts
to support the development and maintenance of open-source software tools for the arts!
#OSSTA
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"Code as Creative Medium", my new book co-authored with
@tegabrain
, is currently
#1
in Amazon's tiny but competitive "Digital Art" category — thanks everyone!
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The only reason the EBS Handjet costs $7K is to keep it out of the hands of artists
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Friends, it's been a minute, but I'm thrilled to announce that my project "Cytographia" will be released through
@ArtBlocks_io
Curated at the beginning of 2024!
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The versions you're auctioning—with dimensions of 6000x4500—are altered, 2nd-generation near-copies. Specifically, these were upscaled from the originals by
@cl0x
per the specific request of
@warholfdn
, because the Foundation explicitly wanted the artworks "in high resolution".
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@zachlieberman
But also: my focus in this particular work is dynamism and interactivity—i.e., the 'medium of response'—not 'colors and light'. To me, this makes it as 'born digital' as anything. The nod to paper helps tell a story, but is not the point.
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In recognition of
#PixelArtDay
, I volunteer that my first job (~1990-1994) was designing thousands of icons for an experimental video annotation system called Media Streams, by
@marcedavis
. Here are some of them.
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My students have the assignment of generating an animated GIF loop (with
@p5xjs
or
@ProcessingOrg
code). For anyone interested, here's my background lecture:
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Delighted to announce that my interactive artwork Yellowtail (1998) is now a collectible interactive SVG at
@hicetnunc2000
— the ultra-low-carbon, punk-rock NFT bazaar: . (Big thanks to
@vamoss
for the
@p5xjs
template!)
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Dear tweeps: who are some amazing individuals (not collectives, this time) working on their own, small, open-source software-development tools for the arts? (Especially looking for persons from underrepresented backgrounds in software dev, but all recommendations welcome!)
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hey everyone stay tuned for the Art && Code WEIRD NICHE SUMMER CAMP WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS
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I'm Director of the
@CreativeInquiry
lab at
@CarnegieMellon
, which collaborated with
@cory_arcangel
&
@cl0x
in discovering the works. You can read about our recovery process here: and especially in this detailed report: .
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Just parking this here, a handsome new loop by my student Nik Diamant ()
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Adobe Flash is officially dead, but we loved it. We’ve built an open-source Flash alternative called Wick.
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DEAR
@TWITTER
, NOW THAT U HAVE
#STICKERS
AND A
#MAGICPONY
, COULD U PLEASE GIVE US SOME CUTE TOOLS TO MANAGE YOUR
#HARASSMENT
DUMPSTER FIRE
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For a class demo, I took a script written by ChatGPT, had WellSaid narrate it, and used that audio to puppeteer a Midjourney character using one-shot-talking-face. My entire family intervened and told me in no uncertain terms that it was the worst thing I've ever made.😳
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Hi friends! If you (1) enjoy creative coding in
@ProcessingOrg
, (2) have access to a computer-controlled embroidery machine, and (3) would like early access to our library, could you kindly reply to this tweet? (& which model do you have?) We're looking for beta-testers!
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In 1995 my life changed when I encountered The Pocket Handbook of Image Processing Algorithms in C by Myler+Weeks (). Over the years I've gifted a few copies to
#oddkin
, one of whom,
@LingdongH
, has ported the book to
@ProcessingOrg
:
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Dear creative technology friends & educators: do you have any favorite quotes about working with code as a creative medium? (cc
@TopLeftBrick
,
@REAS
@aparrish
). For example: I'll start with this nice one by
@zachlieberman
in
@idnworld
.
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I'm delighted to announce the release of "Bluetail" (1998), —a *previously unpublished* cousin of my "Yellowtail" scribbleware!—as an interactive NFT at
@hicetnunc2000
:
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It gets hairier than this. Warhol's Amiga images were created with *non-square pixels* (), with a roughly 0.9 (H:W) aspect ratio. To view these properly today, should these be upscaled in the file itself, or at the final stage of rendering to the screen?
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Hiya friends (cc
@GalaxyKate
)—I've wedged the latest Google
#MediaPipe
into
@p5xjs
(replacing the EOL Handsfree.js), towards new pedagogic body-tracking templates. I'd welcome any suggestions! Currently my solution is stuck in (icky) p5 instance mode.
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Dunning-Kruger effect (individual) vs Gartner Hype Cycle (social).
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Andy Warhol developed his artworks on an Amiga at 320x200 resolution, because that was the size of graphics framebuffers at the time.
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Drawing with Machines
Fall 2021, 12 Units
This is an advanced studio course in experimental drawing, generative art, computational design, and mechatronic mishegas. Working at the boundaries of code, automation, physical materials, and gestural mark-making, we will explore /
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As a good luck talisman, my 16-year-old, a silversmith (zenmetal__ on IG) surprised me with this pair of cell-themed rings.
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Leaving aside the nature of NFTs for the moment (a hash of a signature of a transaction etc.), what would an original be? Warhol's digital art was saved in a pre-release version of an obsolete Amiga file format, PLBM. Is it OK to convert this to a more easily-readable PNG?
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My students completed their computationally-generated GIF loops this past Friday, here's a gallery of their projects:
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I made this
@ProcessingOrg
program, which generates a GIF with looping 1D noise, to help explain
@n_disorder
's excellent article:
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It can't be emphasized enough that
@FreyaHolmer
is an utterly world class designer-educator, and her beautifully animated new explainer, "The Continuity of Splines"—after more than a year's work—sets a new standard for visual math education.
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"Code as Creative Medium" features a foreword by
@reas
; interviews with
@tchoi8
@hdeweyh
@RLukeDuBois
@polishedsolid
@zachlieberman
@runemadsen
@laurenleemack
@aparrish
@phoenixperry
@shiffman
@siusoon
@sugi2000
&
@blprnt
; and computational book design by
@Q_Shim
&
@MinsunEo
!
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This is bonkers //
#ExCap
The most detailed model of a human cell to date, obtained using x-rays, nuclear magnetic resonance, and cryoelectron microscopy data sets.
Source: Transformation of the Cellular Landscape through a Eukaryotic Cell, by Ingersoll, McGill ~ Digizyme's Custom Maya Molecular Software
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Friends, I'm thrilled to announce that
#Cytographia
—my long-form
#generativeArt
, interactive codex of imaginary microorganisms— will debut on
@ArtBlocks_io
Curated next Wednesday, January 10th, at 1pm EST!! More details below...
Introducing our next Curated release:
🔬 'Cytographia' by
@golan
🧫 Embark on a digital elegy celebrating lost and undiscovered species. Explore an interactive codex of speculative cell structures that respond in real-time to your actions.
📅 Live on Jan. 10th, 1 pm EST
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Dear educators of new media arts & design! Are you about to make your syllabus? Yeah we know you are. Let us save you some time!
@tegabrain
& I wrote a book just for you, full of example exercises and assignments 🥰
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Grand dame of generative art, Vera Molnar has passed away at 99. One of the first dozen or so people to make art with a computer, and active until the very end, she was committed lifelong to the poetics of geometry, a massive inspiration and role model.
With the heaviest of heart I am profoundly and deeply heart stricken to share that Vera Molnar passed away last night peacefully in her sleep.
Please retweet and share with the world that this legend lived and lived in a way that we can all
aspire to live with grace.
😢
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A DIY, Open-Source Hardware ventilator / mechanical respirator / breathing machine — is better than none at all. This group is sharing CAD files for equipment that can be fabricated in emergency conditions.
#OSHW
There's a Facebook group with 6,000 members dedicated to designing open-source COVID-19 medical supplies.
The group is sharing CAD files for ventilators, respirators, and equipment that can be fabricated in emergency conditions.
Absolutely inspiring
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Dear friends: I am pleased to announce that I am releasing collectible artworks on the
@hicetnunc2000
NFT platform, which uses the ecologically-friendly Tezos blockchain.
#6799
: Ambigrammatic Figure
#0009
(Card 06)
by
#tz1eQThmh9yuuxjvFBWbRGKUr2goUw1gAd39
The grotesque face in this GIF is an "ambigram": an image that is legible both upside-down and right...
#Tezos
#NFT
$xtz
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As
@jonippolito
points out, the 2nd-generation near-copies being auctioned by
@ChristiesInc
, upscaled to 6000x4500 pixels by a CMU grad student because the
@warholfdn
wanted versions at that size...are a significant departure from the material conditions of Warhol's originals.
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Post-
#Cytographia
, I wish to publicly acknowledge some friends in
#BlobClub
whose work inspired and pushed me toward new territories of indeterminate and plastic form. We are blobkins traveling on similar paths, and it's a privilege to be in dialogue with your work:…
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Friends, what are some examples of collectively-created objects? For example, a cairn:
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Sign up! Emerging voices, marginalized perspectives, and critical positions on VR/AR/MR:
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Hi friends—Tomorrow is my big day 🥰🤞
At 1pm EST Wednesday,
@Artblocks_io
will auction 418 unique pages from my long-form generative artwork, Cytographia—interactive, plottable diagrams from an imaginary book about imaginary microorganisms👽🤖🎨🦠
#creativeCoding
#generativeArt
"Cytographia draws inspiration from several historically significant books that visually and methodically documented encounters with the unknown." -
@golan
📚 Read on to learn more about the historical influences on Cytographia
📅 Cytographia goes live tomorrow at 1pm EST!
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Breakthrough today by
@LingdongH
at
@creativeinquiry
on our
@TensorFlow
(JS) hand-tracker. Bootstrapping our finger-segmentation with Google's keypoint tracker gives highly accurate results at 7fps. On
@kcimc
's advice, we will be working in the open shortly. (cc:
@leejoeyk
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Wrestling (or fantasizing) about making geometric abstraction again. Hid that part of myself away for years. Art School dismisses it as "not critical" (cynically: not sanctioned agitprop). But I feel a commitment to form is hopeful, dammit, and a radical position in its own way.
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