This intermediate programming course focuses on expanded fundamentals of programming in the practice of visual design. We will work in Processing and produce time-based and static media artworks using fractal patterns, cellular automata simulations, swarm algorithms, and l-systems. Beginner coding experience is expected, although this is a design-based studio and ready-made programs will be provided to either implement (beginner), adapt (intermediate), or inspire (advanced). Special attention throughout the course will cluster on network and procedural aesthetics and thinking, drawing from architectural, design, and fine arts practitioners such as Arakawa and Gins, Francois Roche, Jose Garcia, Greg Lynn, Donald Judd, Rona Pondick, JODI, and Isamu Noguchi as well as from authors such as Patrick Jagota, Orit Halpern, Benjamin Bratton, and Beatrice Fazi. In class time, we will go over weekly tutorials, have snack, look at art, and talk about fractals, the who's who of Hollywood boys, component-based spatial reasoning, marxist media ecologies, and your, mine, and our favorite colors - the primary ones. Special attention will be given to folks attempting to think computational and digital techniques from the wondrous and expansive realms of daydreams, outbursts, flirtations, and inattention.
