I’m delighted to announce the publication of Vito Campanelli and Danilo Capasso’s new book on database aesthetics, “Culture and New Media: Five questions by Lev Manovich“  (MAO, 2011) which contains a set of my short essays. Campanelli and Capasso write that “the genesis of the book is to be found in the talk that Lev [...]

A short list of Dutch computational artists/designers who use rapid prototyping, compiled from responses to a Twitter inquiry: Driessens & Verstappen (Amsterdam): http://notnot.home.xs4all.nl/ Catalogtree (Arnhem): http://catalogtree.net/projects/about ProtospaceNL (Utrecht):  http://protospace.nl TNO (Delft): http://www.tno.nl/index.cfm?Taal=2 Demakersvan (Rotterdam): http://www.demakersvan.com/ Rune Madsen (Netherlands/ NYC): http://www.runemadsen.com/work Claire Warnier (Netherlands/Belgium): http://unfold.be/pages/projects/items/l%E2%80%99artisan-electroniqu

Last week, the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at CMU proudly hosted the first international openFrameworks developer meeting — in which the lead creators of OpenFrameworks (an open-source, cross-platform, cross-compiler toolkit for creative coding in C++) encamped at the STUDIO to push forth version 0.70 of this powerful and widely-used library. Gathered together from five countries, [...]

Here’s a short list of digital tools which may help graduating fine arts students bridge the transition to adult working life. I’m currently co-teaching a Senior Project course for approximately 40 Fine Arts undergraduates in the Carnegie Mellon School of Art. In just a few months, these seniors, most of whom work in traditional 2D [...]

The School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University has announced a Tenure-Track Faculty Search in Design and Computation, for a position beginning August 2011: http://www.design.cmu.edu/show_job.php?id=795 The Position We are seeking a dynamic individual working in computational design to tackle global concerns, with experience in one or more of the following areas: information visualization and data [...]