ITP Turns 30!

ITP recently celebrated its 30th anniversary with a weekend of events and activities compressing the entire ITP experience into 3 days. Saturday culminated with a gala event at IAC, celebrating the launch of the Red Burns Scholarship Fund. I worked with a group of ITP students and staff to develop content displayed on IAC’s 120 by 12 foot video wall. Everything you see below was made with Processing and the most pixels ever library.

Thanks to amazing and dedicated group who pulled all of this off (under an incredibly tight and stressful timetable): Xiaoyang Feng, Meredith Hasson, Juri Imamura, Brian Kim, Matt Parker, Jeremy Rotsztain, Tim Szetela, Carolina Vallejo, Elie Zananiri.

The videos are just slices of the original 8160×768 pixel design (as seen in the flickr screenshots). Hopefully I can find some nice images or video from the actual event to post here soon as well.

ITP 30th Anniversary Screenshot

ITP 30th Anniversary Timeline Documentation from shiffman on Vimeo.

ITP 30th Anniversary Screenshot

ITP 30th Anniversary Timeline Documentation from shiffman on Vimeo.

ITP 30th Anniversary Screenshot

ITP 30th Anniversary Floorplan Documentation from shiffman on Vimeo.

ITP 30th Anniversary Screenshot

ITP 30th Anniversary Tweets Documentation from shiffman on Vimeo.

Big Screens Show

First, anyone in NYC, come and check out the ITP show this week!

In other news, there’s a nice write-up at Gizmodo about the Big Screens show at IAC. I should point out that three of the projects this year used openFrameworks (including “Caves of Wonder” by Matt Parker which was mistakenly attributed to Processing in the article). Six of the projects were indeed developed with Processing and three were pre-rendered videos. Here are some of the vimeo clips from Gizmodo. Hope to post more videos and photos soon. . .


Big Screens – Claptime by Vikram Tank from Gizmodo on Vimeo.


Big Screens – White Sun by Mooshir Vahanvati from Gizmodo on Vimeo.


Big Screens – Caves of Wonder by Matt Parker from Gizmodo on Vimeo.


Big Screens – In the Shadows by Alejandro Abreu Theresa Ling from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

Cosmonaut Zoog and Friends

The first half of my new book Learning Processing follows a simple creature design through a life of programming fundamentals: pixels, shapes, variables, conditionals, loops, functions, objects, arrays. Now that the book is out, I’m pleased to see that Zoog has some friends to hang out with. Here is a selection of little alien beings from Introduction to Computational Media.

     
    

And there’s also a nice selection from Matt Soar’s class at Concordia University.

     

All hail Ficello, King of Cheese!