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Flickers of Recognition

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Flickers of Recognition

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 internet. This exhibit reveals the many ways we see ourselves in the 21st century. Watch your portrait quickly emerge from lively patterns on a flat screen TV, view an artist’s 70lb weight loss via video in a matter of minutes, or experience a decade of an artist’s life through daily Polaroids. These works and more showcase the art of today’s self-portrait. Free and open to the public. 920-868-3455 www.peninsulaartschool.com; e-mail: staff@peninsulaartschool.com.

Algorithmic Art at Greylock Arts

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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) exhibition in São Paulo.

Savannah 2008

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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 installed a version of my new “Voronoi” project at the Jepson Center for the Arts and gave two workshops at local community centers about programming art with Processing. In the above video, the software continuously computes a Voronoi diagram colored according to pixels seen by a video camera. The tiles reshape themselves and move into place as the camera imagery changes.

IMG_5927 Learning Processing frame0 Mary Flanagan Lecture

Thanks to Harry Delorme and the Telfair Museum for organizing so many great events!

ITP Shows

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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 ever. Some photos (video coming soon):

ITP Big Screens @ IAC  ITP Big Screens @ IAC
 

This, as far as I know, was the first public use of the Most Pixels Ever library, which admittedly needs quite a bit of work still.

Right Click Swarm

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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 show also includes Josh Minor’s wonderfully addictive Video Pong.

I miss Hong Kong!