daniel shiffman

I was just settling into a quiet evening of reviewing material for my A to Z class tomorrow when I stumbled across something quite shocking.
Mind you, I was in a fragile state, having finally released myself from a rather unhealthy personal obsession with the StringTokenizer, silently weeping (inside) while adjusting the examples to [...]

I’m just finishing up another trip to Savannah, GA. It’s Art & Technology Week here at the Telfair Museum. I participated in two programs, a workshop at the Moses Jackson Community Center and a demo for high school students at the Jepson Center. Haeyoung Kim (who performs under the name bubblyfish) also spoke. [...]

In the interest of trying to lead my life according to my recent minor obession: John Maeda’s Laws of Simplicity, I have decided to start off the Spring semester with a little bit of law 1: Reduce.
So out with http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/the-nature-of-code/
and in with http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/nature/
and out with http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/programming-from-a-to-z/
and in with http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/a2z/.
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It’s been a while since I published a new work. But there’s nothing like a deadline. A year ago, I installed three of my works at the Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, GA. Since the installation was set to run for three years, it seemed like a nice, altogether reasonable [...]