There are some great workshops this summer at Shakerag, Anderson Ranch, and Eyeo. Please consider signing up and share the information with your friends.

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Anderson Ranch (Snowmass, Colorado)
http://www.andersonranch.org/

July 16 – 20, 2012
From Digital to Physical: HYPE Framework and a Techno-Isel CNC Router
Joshua Davis

July 16 – 20, 2012
Scrapyard Challenge
Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Katherine Moriwaki

30 July – 3 August, 2012
Processing: Visualizing Data and Creating Code
Ira Greenberg

August 6 – 10, 2012
Studio Mashup: Photography, Video and Processing
Casey Reas

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Shakerag (Sewanee, Tennessee)
http://www.shakerag.org/workshops/

June 10 – 16, 2012
Moving and Shaking the World: Physical Computing for Artists
Shawn Decker

June 17 – 23, 2012
Curious Systems: Explorations in Art and Algorithmic Behavior
Chris Sugrue

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Eyeo Festival (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
http://eyeofestival.com/theprogram/

These are three-hour workshops that run on June 5, 2012

For the second time, I’m teaching a one-week workshop at Anderson Ranch. The Photography, Video And Processing (P1022) workshop runs this summer from 6-10 August 2012. The audience is creative coders and photographers with an interest in merging coding and photography/video. So, programmers who want to work with photo/video in their work or photo/video folks who are interested in coding. The description follows:

Interested in combining the creative potential of new photographic and software technologies? This workshop considers how modern software is used by artists to reproduce traditional tools, manipulate photographs and splice together video. Come see what happens when we combine photography with emerging ideas within creative coding to explore the potential of a hybrid image/software space. Use the Processing programming language to explore techniques such as altering images pixel by pixel and slitscanning, working with live camera feeds and scripting languages for altering images.

The details are available on the Anderson Ranch Website.

The amazing Eyeo Festival took place last week, 27-29 June 2011, in Minneapolis.

Eyeo brings together the most creative coders, designers and artists working today, and shaping tomorrow – expect an amazing three days of talks, labs, demos & events fueled by the people and tools that are transforming digital culture.

I was busy with two presentations and a workshop:

Benjamin Bratton organized an amazing symposium from 2-3 June 2011 to kick off his Center for Design and Geopolitics at the University of California, San Diego. I gave a presentation titled “The Agency of Code” and participated on a panel with Ricardo Dominguez and Elizabeth Losh:

The Agency of Code: Form, Tool, Policy
Casey Reas, Ricardo Dominguez, Elizabeth Losh

The motto of the open government movement‘s digital vision is “government as a platform,” that is, government not only as an information producing and gathering entity but as a ubiquitous and democratically re-programmable machine for making the world-as-information as generally useful as possible. In this, self-governance becomes (depending on which project is invested) the cybernetician‘s dream of infinite leisure, infinitely rationalized labor and/or one of infinitely autopoetic social systems. But “State as a codebase” has an equally ominous promise for when it works as for when it fails: as both a society of control and as a fragile infrastructure. Further, the globalization of information computing technology produces new modes of citizenship and sovereignty in its image, decoupling Modern logics of state and geography. Here it is “platform as governance,” and the agency of code refers not only to how a social domain formulated through software introduces specific biopolitics, but also to how the literacy of programmability becomes technique to modulate that domain.

The list of participants included Benjamin H. Bratton, Adam Bly, Jordan Crandall, Teddy Cruz, Rene Daalder, Manuel de Landa, Hernan Diaz-Alonso, Ricardo Dominguez, James Fowler, Kelly Gates, Elizabeth Losh, Ed Keller, Charlie Kennel, Norman Klein, Peter Krapp, Geoff Manaugh, Lev Manovich, Metahaven, Naomi Oreskes, Casey Reas, Larry Smarr, Vernor Vinge, Tricia Wang, McKenzie Wark, and Molly Wright Steenson.

I created a software installation for the 2010 Whitney Gala. The software was projected onto sixteen two-sided panels suspended from the ceiling on the third floor of the museum and above hundreds of attendees, carefully worded speeches, and a John Legend performance. My sincere thanks to Adam, Christiane, Gina, Rachel, Bronson, Lauren, and Dave. While I’m waiting for the professional photography, the low-resolution photo above was snapped on my phone during the event. I posted a few installation photos in the Process set on the REAS Flickr account.

I’m presenting the Process Compendium as a 15 minute performance around 3:00pm on Sunday 17 October as a part of the Map Marathon at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London. The event is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and presented by the Serpentine Gallery.

From the official website:

The Serpentine Gallery presents the fifth event in its acclaimed Marathon series on 16 and 17 October. The multi-dimensional Map Marathon will feature non-stop live presentations by over 50 artists, poets, writers, philosophers, scholars, musicians, architects, designers and scientists. This ambitious two-day event takes place in London during Frieze Art Fair week.

Participations include performances and presentations from: Marina Abramović, David Adjaye, Etel Adnan, John Akomfrah, Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, Julieta Aranda, Kader Attia, Nanni Balestrini and Morgan Bennett Balestrini, Artur Barrio, Peter Barber, Rosi Braidotti, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, John Brockman, Mariana Castillo Deball and Amalia Pica, Adam Chodzko, Céline Condorelli, Michael Craig-Martin, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Fujiwara, Gilbert & George, Goldin+Senneby, Joost Grootens, Pancho Guedes, Richard Hamilton and Eyal Weizman, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hiller, Russell Hoban with Eleanor Bron, Claire Hooper, Marine Hugonnier, Amar Kanwar, Anish Kapoor, Janice Kerbel, Scott King, Aaron Koblin, Suzanne Lacy, Klara Lidén, Luigi Ontani, Claude Parent and Nathanael Dorent, Katie Paterson, Adriano Pedrosa, Julia Peyton-Jones, C. E. B. Reas, Marwan Rechmaoui, Pedro Reyes, Alex Rich, Tim Robinson and Simon Cutts, Jacques Roubaud, David Rowan, Anri Sala, Dimitar Sasselov, Annemarie Sauzeau, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Timothy Taylor/Krysztina Tautendorfer with Tom Frankland, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Oraib Toukan, Adrián Villar Rojas, Ai Weiwei, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa and Cerith Wyn Evans. With a special presentation from DLD, (dld-conference.com). Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Chandler and I are happy to announce a book launch party for Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture at Telic Arts Exchange in Los Angeles on Saturday, 4 September from 5 – 7pm. Please join us. We’ll have a toast at 6:30 to thank the many book contributors who’ll be there. Champagne and snacks will be served and we’ll have copies of the book on hand. Directions to Telic (951 Chung King Road Los Angeles, CA 90012) are available on their website.

Adam Lerner’s Mixed Taste format (”Tag Team Lectures on Unrelated Topics”) from the MCA Denver was brought to Anderson Ranch for the annual National Council Celebration. I gave a twenty-minute presentation on Data Visualization (based on the Visualization chapter in Form+Code) which was preceded by an amazing presentation on Fly Tying. The question and answer session that followed the presentations was a game where the audience made connections between the topics.

On July 15th, I participated in a one-day conference at the University of Southern California (USC) on the subject of Critical Code Studies. (The area of Critical Code Studies is emerging and it’s currently difficult to distinguish it precisely from the area of Software Studies.)  I made a presentation with Nick Montford and Jeremy Douglass on the subject of a one-line BASIC program for the Commodore 64:

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10

The schedule follows:

9-9:20: Welcome
Mark C. Marino, USC

9:25-10:25: Panel 1
Jeremy Douglass, UCSD
Liz Losh, UCI
Marisa Plumb

10:30-11:50: Panel 2
Federica Frabetti, Oxford Brookes University
Tara McPherson, USC
Benjamin Bratton, UCSD
Craig Dietrich, USC

1-2:20: Panel 3
John Williams, Yale University
Aaron Reed, UCSC
Max Feinstein, USC
Brett Stalbaum, UCSD

2:25-3:40: Panel 4
Dave Shepard, UCLA
Evan Buswell, Portland State University
10-Print by Nick Montfort (MIT), Casey Reas (UCLA), and Jeremy Douglass (UCSD)

3:45-4:25: Computer Science Panel
Stephanie August, LMU
Paul Rosenbloom, USC

4:30: Keynote
Wendy Chun, Brown University

I’m teaching a one-week workshop at Anderson Ranch this summer from 26-30 July. The audience is total programming beginners and the topic is Drawing with Processing: An Introduction to Coding. The description follows:

Writing code to draw is a fun, easy way for artists to learn computer programming. We focus on the basic elements of programming and apply them to making digital prints. Processing is an open source programming language and environment for creating images, animation and interaction.

Students write code to create images for high-resolution digital prints using the Processing environment and print on digital printers. No programming experience is necessary, but participants should be very comfortable using computers. Too much programming experience is discouraged.

Short presentations on technique and concept are mixed with studio work sessions. The instructor tutors students individually during studio time. New techniques are introduced in the first three days with concentration on a final project during the last two days.

The details are available on the Anderson Ranch Website.