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.

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) exhibition in São Paulo.

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.

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.

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

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):

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.

IAC Video Wall Day 2 from shiffman and Vimeo.

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

I miss Hong Kong!