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Why I Like Artistic Programming

(hyphae - creativeapplications.net)

You can be creative with any task, however I would say that most programmers I know spend their days connecting dots and being innovative for dollars. Recently, I have found exploring artistic endeavors with my programming has not only given me new interest in challenging the borders of my skills, but also has brought back an excitement for programming that I do not feel I have really had since high school.

The entry barrier for creative computing has been massively reduced with technologies such as Arduino, Processing, Cinder. All of these products cater more to artists than serious techies.

Arduino out of the box sometimes sacrifices performance for backwards compatibility allowing people who just want to get it done, to do just that. The platform also gives people who want to dig in deeper the option to do so. It shares a similar IDE with Processing and Processing has libraries for direct control of arduino through the IDE. Instead of your projects being a typical collection of hierarchical files, it is more encouraged to write “sketches,” a short, mostly visually focused endeavor. These simple tools a driving things from animatronic installation to massive lighting and visuals for concerts.

Over at Creative Applications Network they are piling up projects by creative types. Resources like this really blow my mind. Just to see ways that our world is being changed by cheap and accessible digital technology. The toolkit for the digital artist is growing at a rapid pace. 3D printers, Lasers, Kinect/spatial sensing, and powerful small platforms like the smartphone now have massive dedicated communities of hackers, musicians, and visual artists using them. 

It’s an exciting time to be interested in being interesting. Make something useless today!

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