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 […]

While it may not be nearly as kooky as calling Processing on the phone, I’ve been asked about checking e-mail from Processing several times this semester. So rather than try to dig up example code on the internets, I’ve quickly thrown together one that checks a POP account and/or sends mail via SMTP. […]

How to connect to Processing from a phone call:
http://www.shiffman.net/p5/asterisk

Calling Processing again from shiffman on Vimeo.
Going to write this up and publish the code (in conjunction with my Big Screens course) in the next couple days.

1-800-Processing from shiffman on Vimeo.

I’m pleased to announce that we’re releasing the first version of The Most Pixels Ever, an open-source Java framework for spanning Processing sketches across multiple screens (developed with Chris Kairalla). This is an early version that has many limitations and needs a great deal of improvement, but it does work. The site isn’t […]

One more video. . .

Run Lola Run Lola Run Lola Run Lola Run from shiffman and Vimeo.

IAC Video Wall Day 2 from shiffman and Vimeo.

Now, I am rather overdue for an update on my upcoming book. I’ll be posting details soon. However, in the course of finishing up a chapter on String parsing, I discovered that my good friend, the Google SOAP API is no longer being supported (obviously, I’m a little late on the ball […]