1. HELLO

Hi. How are you? My name is Dan. Welcome.

If you're here, which hopefully you are
because you're watching this video,

you're here to learn Programming.

Hopefully you're here to learn Programming
for the very first time.

This is going to be a tutorial.

It's designed for you to take about
an hour to complete.

There's going to be lots of stuff
happening in it.

I'm going to talk. Hopefully not too much.

I'm going to draw pictures and diagrams

over here on this whiteboard.

Sometimes this video is going to

get a lot smaller and there's going to be

text below me, and things drawn

to the left of me over here.

We're going to look at Programming

in the context of the visual arts.

What does it mean to write software

to do the things that you often do

with your hands, with paper, with pencil

with paint? Could you use a computer to

create drawings? To create animations?

To create images? This is what we're
going to look at.

So, before we get started with the actual

nuts and bolts of learning to code,

let's take a moment to look at a range of

projects -- things that have been made in

recent years with computer programming

for the visual arts.

This is Strata #3 by Quayola.

Quayola is an artist working in London.

This animation combines computer generated

images with video of a cathedral in Rome

to create a fantastic new reality.

In his own words, he is investigating
improbable relationships between

contemporary digital aesthetics, and
icons of classical art and architecture.

This is Oasis by Yunsil Heo.

She is a media artist working in Seoul.

Oasis is an interactive installation.

By moving around the sand,
small pools are created

where new software creatures are born and live.

This is Replica by Alex Vessels and Jeff Howard.

Alex and Jeff are interactive artists and designers

working in New York. Replica is

an interactive dance performance that

uses live image processing to explore how

the awareness of time and captured images

affect self-perception.

It was projected onto a 120 foot
video wall in New York.

This is unnamed soundsculpture by

Daniel Franke and Cedric Kiefer.

Daniel and Cedric are media artists
working in Berlin.

This animation is a moving sculpture

created from the recorded motion data
of a live dancer.

These animation and installation projects

are just one way that visual artists

are working with code.

More traditional design areas such as

map design, brand identity, and logo design

and illustration are transformed through

designers writing their own code.

This is the Dencity Map by

Fathom Information Design.

Fathom is a design studio in Boston.

This map uses circles of different sizes

and colors to visualize

population density in a unique way.

Larger, darker circles show areas

with fewer people. While smaller brighter

circles highlight crowded cities.

By glancing at this map we quickly get

a sense of how some cities and countries

are more densely populated than others.

This is the logo for the MIT Media Lab

created by the Green Eyl.

The Green Eyl is a studio based in Berlin.

The identity system can be used

in different ways and in many contexts

including the lab's website, business cards,

and in any other media.

It forms a beautiful identity that is

synonymous with the Media Lab's

approach to the ever changing

nature of technology.

In addition to the kind of work

we're looking at already,

there's sculpture, fashion design,

architecture, products, jewelry,

pottery, much much more.

What does writing software have

to do with these physical objects?

Everything.

It's an area of exciting and emerging possibility.

New technologies make it possible

to print objects. For example, it is now

possible to design a ring in software

and print it in plastic or metal.

Let's look at three final examples before starting

to learn how to code.

This is the D.dress software by

Mary Huang. Mary is an entrepreneur

and designer working in New York.

D.dress is a program written by Mary

that allows a user to sketch a dress and

it automates the pattern creation.

It re-imagines the classic little black dress

by changing the relationships between

manufacturing, the designer, and the wearer.

The Textile Room was created by the

architecture studio P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S,

founded by Georgina Huljich

and Marcelo Spina. Georgina and Marcelo

are architects working in Los Angeles,

The Textile Room is an experimental

media space where carbon fiber textiles

are augmented with a video colleague.

This is Cell Cycle by Nervous System,

a design studio founded by Jessica Rosenkrantz

and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg.

Jessica and Jesse are entrepreneurs

and designers living in Boston.

Cell Cycle is a program that allows

people to design their own jewelry

and then 3D print it.

All of these projects we just looked at

are created with a software environment

called Processing. Processing is a way

to program invented by artists

and designers to be used by

artists and designers.

Processing is for making visual media.

It focuses on writing programs to draw

create animation, and to build

interactive experiences like video games.

Hopefully you're going to have a good

experience learning to program

and I'm already having fun just talking to you

even though I don't really know

who you are yet cause you're not here.

There's a camera there. Okay.

I'll talk to you later. Bye.