daniel shiffman

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.
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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 […]

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 […]

I’m working on an interactive kiosk for the Toronto Airport, part of Terminal Zero One. Two early sketches:

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Some stills from the multi-screen particles project:

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. […]

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 […]