Now I am almost studying Interactive Art for one year. Me, as a Flash and Flex Developer, like coding with audio-visual and interaction-based content. But if I am honest, in the last time I did not use Flash in my projects at all. I had to deal with some other powerful creative coding tools. Some of these tools provide me, as an artist, much more freedom than the Flash plattform can ever provide. For example, creating a visual output for multi-displays applications, programming on hardware (arduino), some real-time video tracking (face detection) experiments, using special Open-GL Renderer for 3D graphics and so on. But I also ran into problems, which I would never have with using Flash. Especially, when I worked together with unexperienced programmer. For this reason, I will describe some of these creative coding tools with their inherent advantages and disadvantages. After this article you should have a good overview about the available tools in creative coding.
Creative Coding Tools Overview
During the first semester of my study Interface Culture at the University of Art in Linz I had to write some papers about interactive art. My first papers dealt with the history of interactive art and continued with some different art movements in this domain. In some cases I am more or less satisfied with my papers. Anyway, I think every 2page long paper contains some interesting points for Interaction Designer, Web Designer, Web Developer, Web Artists, Computer Scientists etc.. That is the reason why I want to share my written work with you.
Please consider that all my papers here were an assignment for the master classes of Interactive Art by Christa Sommerer. My papers don't meet the requirements of a scientific work despite the fact that the format seems to be scientific. All my texts represent partly more my own thoughts on the different art topics, so please interpret my papers as a short essay or summary. My thoughts are mainly based on the first and second references, which are mentioned at the end of each paper. I highly recommend to read these references, because they are a very good collection for delivering an introduction in the domain of interactive art. Thanks Christa for this great collection of references and the introduction!
The Elements of User Experience
Zudem liefert das Buch eine gute Step-by-Step Anleitung für interaktive Webprodukte, welche Disziplinen (z.B. Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Interface Design usw.) benötigt werden, welche Aufgabe diese verschiedenen Disziplinen haben und wie sie miteinander interagieren müssen.
Hier eine kleine geordnete Zusammenfassung meiner wichtigsten Twittermeldungen:
Mobile:
Flash:
Flex:
Aufgrund meines Umstiegs auf WordPress wird es von mir keine seperaten Newsmeldungen mehr geben. Stattdessen verfolgt am besten meinen Twitter Status, dort werde ich in regelmässigen Abständen interessante Links posten. Damit aber nicht die alten News komplett verloren gehen, poste ich Sie hier noch einmal:
Meine Zeit bei Liip geht langsam dem Ende zu. Gelernt habe ich einiges und konnte auch ein bissl was in Form von Techtalks von meinem Wissen zurück geben.
Vielleicht findet der ein oder andere die Informationen hilfreich auf den Slides...
What I did before Liip
Kleine Vorstellung meiner Person bei Liip und und welche SKills ich für Liip mit einbringe.
Flash Lite (Mobile FLash)
Eine sehr kurze Zusammenfassung über die Geschichte und Entwicklung der mobilen Flash Plattform (Flash Lite Player), sowie ein paar Tipps, die es beim ersten Arbeiten mit Flash Lite zu beachten gilt (z.B. Memory Management).
Ars Electronica Festival 2008
Mein Review zum Ars Electronica Medien(kunst) Festival 2008 in Linz. Was für ein Festival ist es? Welche Motivationen stecken dahinter? Welche interessanten Projekte gabe es?
