daniel shiffman

I recently had two projects (Swarm and Voronoi in a show at the Peninsula School of Art, entitled “Flickers of Recognition.”
June 5, 2009 to July 16, 2009
Location: Guenzel Gallery @ Peninsula School of Art
Recording our everyday lives has gone from the privacy and simplicity of writing in a diary to real-time, digital exposure on the [...]

Please note RSVP is required: itp dot rsvp at nyu dot edu

More info about the projects

Swarm (2002) is part of the Algorithmic Art exhibition at Greylock Arts, an arts organization and gallery space run by Marianne Petit and Matthew Belanger. Other artists (several also from ITP): Larry Alice, Richard Harrington, Daniel Hirschman, Tristan Perich, Sean Riley, Jeremy Rotsztain, and Demetrie Tyler.
Swarm was also recently included in the generativa(OUTDOOR) [...]

Filament @ Tyneside Cinema Launch – The Wall from Steve Holmes on Vimeo.
I recently had a project featured at the Tyneside Cinema launch in Newcastle. The above video misspells my name, but otherwise documents the work quite nicely. There’s also a nice write-up at Create Digital Motion.

The voronoi project of mine is currently having its second showing at the Cleveland State University Art Gallery. So far, I’ve come across two articles about the show: The Plain Dealer, and The Cleveland Free Times.

I just returned from a trip to Savannah, GA to for technology and art week. Mary Flanagan gave a great talk on the nature of video games as an expressive medium and Andrew Schneider demoed his wacky and incredible Experimental Devices for Performance.
Voronoi from shiffman on Vimeo.
Download QT version (better quality)
I [...]

The ITP Show finished up with some nice write-ups on the internets: ny times blog and MAKE.
About a week or so before the ITP show, my Big Screens class had their own show at the IAC Building on their rather large video wall. I’m hoping we set the world record for largest Processing sketch [...]

IAC Video Wall Day 2 from shiffman and Vimeo.

We have lift-off for airport-related puns!
Terminally bored? You won’t be, with digital art by Nadja Sayej, The Globe and Mail.
Airport art: Multi-screen, interactive digital art exhibition connects travellers with a disconnected world at Terminal One by Peter Goddard, Toronto Star
Terminal Zero One Touches Down at Pearson by Adam Schwabe, blogTO

My 2002 (my goodness, that’s 5 years ago!) piece Swarm is part of Right click – Open source new art media exhibition at the Kapok gallery in Hong Kong. Swarm uses an implementation of Craig Reynolds’ flocking algorithm and the Processing source is available in my nature of code tutorials. The [...]