2008. 2. 10. 22:21
Techne
Casey Reas & Ben Fry
Processing: a programming handbook for visual designers and artists
forword by John Maeda
The MIT Press, 2007
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Foreword
John Maeda (Allen Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Laboratory)
"people who have a fundamental balance issue in the way they approach the computer as an expressive medium"
"Hybrids that can fluidly cross the chasm between technology and the arts"
"the relentless pursuit of perfecting the bridge that connects the art-mind with the computer-mind"
Preface
"creating interactive and visual work through writing software"
the University of California-Los Angeles
the Interaction Design Institute Iverea
Havard University
Carnegie Mellon University
Casey's introduction
BASIC, Logo, Apple IIe machine, the University of Cincinnati, Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator, Plaka (a matte black paint), CD-ROM, the Internet, modular systems, real-time processes to generate form/behavior/mediate interactions, the Aesthetics and Computation Group at MIT, fusing traditional arts knowledge with ideas from computer science, views on technology in relation to culture and the history of art, synthesized knowledge from visual culture with knowledge from computer science
I hope this book will act as a catalyst to increase software literacy within the arts.
Ben's introduction
taking things apart, disassembling and comparing the contents of household electronics, "IBM BASIC by Microsoft", "for" loop, graphic design, typography, user interface design, interactive multimedia CD-ROMs, the intersection between design and computation, the Design By Numbers project, pedagogy
One of my personal goals for this project is to facilitate designers' taking control of their own tools.