Software over the rainbow

desearch and revelopment

Category: Art

cutout poetry

Recovering an old habit.

instructions, limitations

Instruction set is a recently launched site that gives some instructions every month and asks for implementations in code. Think Sol Lewitt goes 2.0 (sorry I couldn’t resist). It is a beautiful simple idea and It’s stealing me lots of braincycles (see). I’ve heard raindrops here and there about design by limitation lately. Number of [...]

Zach Lieberman talk and performance at UPF

Zach Lieberman will be presenting (talking and performing) his work tomorrow at the University Pompeu Fabra. He will be talking, among other things, about openframeworks, his “open-source library to help other artists produce works through coding.” in c++, which I’m totally in love with. Details: – ink & c++ for dinner a performance and talk [...]

More branches, objects, sounds and empty rooms.

Chelpa ferro is a brazillian collective of visual, video and audio artists. As with Jessica Rylan, I don’t really know how their installations sound like, but I love them. More chelpa ferro via

On ChucK, Terry Riley, Jim Bumgardner and emulating old masters through code

So this morning I found that someone had already done an idea which I had been thinking of for some time (probably since I did the Steve Reich’s Clapping Music version in ChucK): Source code for “In C” by Terry Riley in ChucK No problem. With the amount of information we have a few clicks [...]

Si me preguntan qué quiero ser de mayor

probablemente conteste que arquitecto. Pero lo que siempre he querido ha sido abandonar mi carrera artística para jugar al ajedrez, como hizo duchamp. Así tengo todavía dos cosas que aprender.

Digital art critique

Siempre que se atisba discusión en eu-gene, la lista de correo de generative.net, hay que frotarse las manos. La cantidad y profundidad de conocimiento sobre arte digital, electrónico, generativo y derivados que por allí se destila es enorme. A mi me gustó especialmente ésta discusión sobre el mapeado en el arte digital, que se desató [...]