creative coding for beginners
CREATING ART & INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES WITH CODE
How can we create meaningful interactive experiences or tell stories with code?
• 5. August - 30. August 2018
• Based at ACUD in Berlin, Germany
• Four weeks, full-time
• Small class of participants
Pricing
Artist / Student (Full Time)*
€1950
Professional*
€2150
course
description
As we become more connected through technology, understanding how that technology works can be empowering, insightful and practical, especially as coding has become a building block for an increasing number of professions. We hope that by increasing the number of people who can understand code, we can also diversify the voices controlling these technologies.
How can we create meaningful interactive experiences or tell stories with code? This course will focus on creative coding, interactivity, and self. The goal is to explore the creative and expressive possibilities of technology, digital tools, and self-expression while gaining a foundation in how to code.
in this course,
you will be
introduced to
Tools for creating interactive artworks with code
Toolkits and platforms like Processing, P5.js
Programming building blocks through experimentation and hands-on projects making
Playing with interaction, audio, and visuals
Axidraw techniques for plotting artwork
Tools for generating ideas, building stories, completing a project.
Playful ways of self-expression
Getting familiar with command line
Gaining familiarity through understanding documentation, installing tools and libraries, and using github etc. to carve your own way forward
An amazing network and community of like-minded creative beings and potential future collaborators
course
outline
Week 1: Introductions, concepts, narratives, play, and critical discourse as introduction to your fellow students and to coding. Fundamentals of coding with processing / p5.js.
Week 2: Command line made fun and easy. Further tools and techniques for creating interactivity through code. Learning plotter techniques and how to use Axidraw to create cool code art outside of the screen.
Week 3: Advanced techniques for working with sound and visuals.
Week 4: Creating collective narrative and interactive experiences for showcase to the public on the final day of the program.
who is this
program for?
The workshop is suited for anyone interested in familiarising themselves with code, and particularly suited for visual artists and designers keen to augment their practice. In this workshop, you will be taught through hands-on and playful explorations, creating visuals, animations, and interactive experiments. You will be provided with with an essential tool kit that can be applied across contexts and problems and will do so in a manner that is fun, accessible, and engaging. By programs end, you'll create coded projects for final exhibition at programs end. No previous experience necessary.
meet the instructor
Saskia Freeke
Artist, Creative coder, Interaction Designer, Visual designer and Educator
Saskia Freeke is an artist, creative coder, interaction designer, visual designer and educator based in Amsterdam. She has a BAT in Interaction Design and a MA in Computational Arts. Her work focuses on structure, geometry and playfulness. Central to her artistic practice is her daily digital art project that she started January 2015, where she experiments and explores creating patterns and animations. These artworks are mostly created with code. From her digital work she creates often physical artworks and she is interested in creating tangible interactive and playful installations. She previously taught at the University of the Arts Utrecht School for Games and Interaction in Visual Design and has taught Physical Computing at Goldsmiths University of London. Saskia has been a fellow with the Processing Foundation in 2017, where she created in collaboration with the Code Liberation Foundation multiple workshops.
