Creative Programming SS 2021
Materials for the course ›Creative Programming‹
Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung, Linz
Art and Education
Lecturer: Andreas Pirchner
Summer semester 2021
Course Overview
Lecture 1 (02.03.2021): Image and Video Processing
Basics of image processing. Image, webcam and video filter
Lecture 2 (09.03.2021: Computer Vision
Working with augmented reality markers, Face Tracking, Mixed Reality
Lecture 3 (23.03.2021): Ways of Worldmaking (1): Using android mode, Mobile Android AR/VR
google cardboard VR
Lecture 4 (04.05.2021): Ways of Worldmaking (2): Using android mode, Mobile Android AR/VR
google cardboard VR, Sound & Sonification
Lecture 5 (08.06.2021): Open Data retrieval, processing JSON, GeoData,
Final Project
Assignments
Assignment Lecture 1-1
1. Programm your own 2D image filter/effect.
2. Make a 3D version of it.
Assignment Lecture 1-2
3. Make a version of your earlier effects for videos.
4. Export 3 PDF stills
Assignment Lecture 3-1
Implement your camera effect from the last exercise to the phone.
Assignment Lecture 3-2
Use the nyARtoolkit library and markers to make an virtual exhibition. Topic of the exhibition could be your own
paintings, your favourite photos, 3D Obj-Files of your product designs or generative virtual objects.
Assignment Lecture 5
Find an open data set from one of the given websites (or from elsewhere), analyze it, use the data for a abstract
visualization in Processing.
Final project
"Metamorphosis".
Bibliography
Coding Processing
Shiffman, Daniel (2012): The Nature of Code. Selfpublished. Siehe auch: http//:natureofcode.com
Shiffman, Daniel (2015): Learning Processing. A Beginner`s Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction. Second Edition. Burlington: Elsevier.
Pearson, Matt (2011): generative art. a practical guide using processing. New York: Manning Publications.
Colubri, Andrés (2017): Processing for Android. Apress. Online
Groß, Benedikt et al (2009): Generative Gestaltung: Entwerfen. Programmieren. Visualisieren. Mainz: Verlag Hermann Schmidt Online
Groß, Benedikt et al (2018): Generative Gestaltung. Creative Coding im Web. Entwerfen, Programmieren und Visualisieren mit Javascript in p5.js. Mainz: Verlag Hermann Schmidt. Online
Generative Art / Computer Art
Bill, Max (2016): Structure as Art? Art as Structure? In: Helen Armstrong (Hg.), Digital Design Theory. Readings from the Field. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. Original Text from 1965.
Tjark Ihmels, Julia Riedel: Die Methodik der generativen Kunst. http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themen/generative_tools/generative_art/scroll/
Montfort, Nick et. al. (2013): 10 Print CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10. Matthew Fuller, Lev Manovich, Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Hgg.), Software Studies, Bd. 5.Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Xenaksi, Iannis (1992). Formalized Music. Thought and Mathematics in Composition. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press.
Grupen, Claus (2016): Die Natur des Zufalls. In: Peter Gendola, Thomas Kamphusmann (Hgg.), Die Künste des Zufalls. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, S. 15-33.
Reas, Casey; McWilliams Chandler (2010): Form+code in design, art, and architecture. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
Prusinkiewicz, Przemyslaw & Lindenmayer, Astrid (1990) The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants. New York: Springer-Verlag. Online unter http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop
Taylor, Grant D. (2014). When the Machine Made Art. The Troubled History of Computer Art. New York:Bloomsbury.
Skiena Steven S. (2008): The Algorithm Design Manual. Second Edition. London: Springer.
Hilbert, David & Cohn-Vossen, Stephan (1999). Geometry and the Imagination. New York: ANS Chelsea Publishing.
Flake, Gary W. (1999): The Computational Beauty of Nature. Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaption. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Lauter, Marie & Weigand, Hans-Georg (Eds.) (2014): Ausgerechnet… Mathematik und Konkrete Kunst. Baunach: Spurbuchverlag.
Rosen, Margit (2014): Der Algorithmus des Manfred Mohr. Texte 1963–1979. Karlsruhe: ZKM & Spector Books.
Visualizing Data
Lima, Manuel (2014): The Book of Trees. Visualizing Branches of Knownledge. New York: Princeton Architektural Press.
Lima, Manuel (2011): Visual Complexity. Mapping Patterns of Information. New York: Princeton Architektural Press.
Cairo, Alberto (2013): the functional art. an introduction to information graphics and visualization. Berkely: New Raiders.
Tufte, Edward R. (2001): The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Second Edition. Cheshire: Graphics Press LLC.
Tufte, Edward R. (1990): Envisioning Information. Thirteenth Printing, May 2011. Cheshire: Graphics Press LLC.
Mixed Reality
Kittler, Friedrich (1989): Fiktion und Simulation. In: Philosophien der neuen Technologie. Hrsg: Ars Electronica. Berlin: Merve Verlag Gmbh. S. 57-80.
Münker, Stefan (2005). Virtualität. In: Alexander Roesler, Bernd Stiegler (Hgg.), Grundbegriffe der Medientheorie. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. S. 244-250.
Code Culture
Roesler, Alexander (2005). Code/Codierung. In: Alexander Roesler, Bernd Stiegler (Hgg.), Grundbegriffe der Medientheorie. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. S. 244-250.
Stalder, Felix (2016): Kultur der Digitalität. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag.
Schneider, Birgit (2008): Programmierte Bilder. Notationssysteme der Weberei aus dem 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. In: Das technische Bild. Kompendium zu einer Stilgeschichte wissenschaftlicher Bilder. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. S. 182-191.
Cox, Geoff; McClean, Alex (2012): Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression. Matthew Fuller, Lev Manovich, Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Hgg.), Software Studies, Bd. 4. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Miyazaki, Shintaro (2013): Algorhytmisiert. Eine Medienarchäologie digitaler Signale und (un)erhörter Zeiteffekte. Friedrich Kittel, Wolfgang Ernst (Hgg.), Berliner Programm einer Medienwissenschaft, Bd. 12. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos.
Kucklick, Christoph (2016): Die granulare Gesellschaft. Wie das Digitale unsere Wirklichkeit auflöst. 2. Auflage. Berlin: Ullstein Buchverlage.
Taylor Grant D. (2014). When the Machine Made Art. The Troubled History of Computer Art. Jörgen Schäfer (Hg.), International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics Volume 8. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.