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Processing Paris photos

v3ga — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:00:25 +0000

I animated a two-days Processing workshop in Paris @ La Fonderie de L’image.

We worked with the students on interactive pattern making, resulting in the creation of posters and wallpapers that were exposed then.

Thanks to all the participants, this was a fun and creative week-end. Cheers to Mark and David for making this happen.

Processing Paris 01

v3ga — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:22:32 +0000

Processing Paris is an initiative between la Fonderie de l’Image, Cefag Formations and OFFF Tracks, which will be organizing OFFF Paris this year. For this first session, two workshops and an exhibition of international artists will be set up.

Workshops will focus on creative programming through the use of Processing environment.
Participants will practice and experiment new ways of creating static and dynamic visuals by writing their own softwares and tools. Karsten Schmidt (aka Toxi) will teach a Master Class for experimented people (in english) while I will be teaching a beginners course (in French) alongside with Christian Delecluse.

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Processing Paris est une initiative collaborative entre La Fonderie de l’Image, Cefag Formations et OFFF Tracks (organisateurs du festival OFFF à Paris). Au cours de l’année nous souhaitons organiser des événements qui porteront sur l’éducation, l’échange et la création Processing. Pour cette première édition nous avons organisé deux ateliers plus une exposition d’oeuvres internationales.

L’objectif de ces ateliers sera de familiariser les participants à la programmation avec Processing pour leur permettre d’expérimenter de nouvelles formes de création visuelles, de réaliser des prototypes/software et de produire des oeuvres visuelles statiques aussi bien qu’interactives/réactives. Deux ateliers sont proposés :

Un groupe pour débutants qui sera mené par Julien Gachadoat en français.
Un groupe ‘Master Class’ pour les plus expérimentés, mené par Karsten Schmidt en anglais.

Crea numerica

v3ga — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:12:21 +0000

I was invited to give a two days workshop on Processing and a conference about free and open source code-related software in the city of Beirut in Lebanon. This was part of the Crea Numerica event, which gathered several francophone artists during one week.
As usual, such events are appropriate to meet interesting people, and I had good times with Fred & Jean-Marie of SlidersLab. Also, I discovered “Le Temple des Montagnes”, a simple and yet beautiful installation by swiss artist Camille Scherrer.

Photo shot in the Bacchus temple in Baalbek.

Buzzing around

v3ga — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:58:24 +0000

Gravity – Interactive installation @ Utopia, Bordeaux from 2Roqs on Vimeo.

I had the opportunity to teach several workshops, give a talk and show Gravity during the month of March.

La Chose Programmée, a workshop held @ BBB in Toulouse (February 23th to 26th), where code together with Bluetooth technologies on mobile phones were explored with Etienne Cliquet and some students of the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Toulouse.
Read a more detailed article on 2Roqs website.
Openframeworks workshop, held @ Craslab in Paris (February 28th to March 1st). By the way, version 006 was just released a few days ago and has now support for iPhone development. Check a tutorial on Memo’s website (more to come).
Slides about Openframeworks (pdf, french)
Code as a creative tool, a talk followed by a short Processing workshop given for the festival Siana in Evry (March 23rd). Yay, it was very cool to talk about the early Atari & Amiga demoscene in the end of the 80’s.
Scroll some more text about this on 2Roqs website.
Gravity was exhibited twice in Bordeaux (March 17th to 20th) . The first installation was shown for “la semaine de la langue française”, and it was set up in an old nunnery that is part of the Drac Aquitaine, a french government organization responsible for promoting cultural events.
The other one was set up as part of the E.motion electronic festival in Bordeaux. The animation was projected on the Utopia movie theater’s facade. This event was a huge success as the application received more than 1000 sms messages in roughly 3 hours!
Videos, photos on 2Roqs website.

Processing workshop in Paris – code sources

v3ga — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:16:11 +0000

Un grand merci à tous les partipants de ce week-end ! Les code sources qui ont été dissequés sont en ligne à cette addresse >>ici<<.
Ils contiennent notamment le code du serveur OSC utilisé pour l’application de dessin collaborative.

A big thank you! to all the participants of this week-end workshop. The code sources of the programs that were studied are online >>here<<.
It contains the sketch for the OSC server used for the collaborative drawing scene.

Processing workshop in Paris.

v3ga — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:18:31 +0000

I’ll teach a two-days Processing workshop tomorrow in Paris. It is organised by the Cras and hosted @ Mains d’Oeuvres. Following topics will be covered :

Data structures : Array, ArrayList, HashMap, …
Classes : structure, instances, storage, inheritance, polymorphism.
3D : transformations, textures, openGL commands.
Computer Vision.
Network : Server / Clients structure, protocols with an example of collaborative application (fun!)

I’ll post the sketches from this session next week on this page.

Slides & Book

v3ga — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:47:49 +0000

I just created an online page where I gathered some french written slides I show and comment when animating a Processing workshop. The list will grow in the future with example code released.

Speaking of learning Processing, I finally get my hand(s) on the Processing book written by Casey Reas and Ben Fry.
Besides containing the basics for visual software programming with Processing (lots of examples and pictures), the book introduces the reader to some related initiatives, including interviews with their creators. It also features some chapters dedicated to more advanced topics (computer vision, electronics/Arduino, network, mobile, …).

Workshops in Paris & Toulouse

v3ga — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:39:43 +0000

I’ll be glad to come back to CrasLab in Paris in order to animate a two-days Processing workshop , the 3rd and 4th of November. The lectures will focus on creative programming through the use of Processing environment, attendees will be taught coding pratices in order to build graphic interactive sketches.

I’ve also been invited by Etienne Cliquet to give a talk about Processing(Mobile) & Arduino at L’école des Beaux-arts in Toulouse.

Processing vs Arduino

v3ga — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:27:39 +0000

Etienne Cliquet put some photos online of the Arduino/Processing workshop organized by the Craslab two weeks ago. It lasted one week, students were there to learn the basic of electronics and programming, respectively thanks to Arduino boards and Processing. Teachers included Sandrine from Interface-Z, Jean-Noel from Craslab and myself.
Big thanks to Adrien Z. for having refreshed and filled my 1kbyte brain memory about electronics. Cheers.

Workshop and bioblobs

v3ga — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:26:10 +0000

I will have the pleasure to come back to Saint-Ouen (near Paris) at Le centre de Ressources Art Sensitif (Mains d’oeuvre) to animate a second Processing workshop.
It will last two days, from 7th to 8th of April. The targeted audience is mainly beginners who have very little or no prior knowledge of computer programming. Coding practices will be explored through the creation of interactive graphic sketches.
More informations can be found there.

J’animerai le 7 et 8 avril prochains un atelier Processing au Centre de Ressources Art Sensitif (Mains d’oeuvre) Ã Saint-Ouen, prÃ¨s de Paris. Il sera principalement destinÃ© Ã des personnes ayant peu ou pas d’expÃ©rience en programmation. La dÃ©couverte de l’outil ainsi que les pratiques de programmation se feront Ã travers la rÃ©alisation de programmes interactifs graphiques.
Plus d’informations (tarifs, plan) sont disponibles sur cette page.

I updated the page dedicated to projects using BlobDetection lib I wrote a while ago for Java/Processing.
Most recent ones feature a multi-touch table built by the hyperactive guys at r3nder.net, while the other projet – called Living Interface and made by Marc Nonnenmacher- is a study of mixing together a real single life form with computed boids to produce sounds and graphics (video here).