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When artists use new technologies as their materials, a number of things happen: 1. They discover ways to extend the expressive and communicative range of tools, devices and systems 2. By making connections that are neither necessarily utilitarian nor profitable, they explore potential for diverse human interest and experience 3. They do the cognitive work…
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Sculpting possibility space | Affording Play
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“Code Drawings in Hopscotch” Reconstruction 16.1 (2016): ARCHIVES ON FIRE: Artifacts & Works, Communities & Fields
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The Untold History of Arduino
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Most learn-to-code initiatives do not support this type of creative expression. In many introductory coding activities, students are asked to program the movements of a virtual character navigating through a set of obstacles toward a goal. This approach can help students learn some basic coding concepts, but it doesn’t allow them to express themselves creatively — or…
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Finally, if the question is ‘do artists need to read such-and-such’ type of literature, the answer is definitely ‘no.’ You never know where ideas come from. I believe in chaos for answers. And the most important thing today, when our tastes are calculated by algorithms, is to find things that you are not looking for.…
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Generative Art Toy 4
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Hopscotch for Code Drawings
Hopscotch is an iOS app for iPads designed as a coding environment that can facilitate learning through tinkering by young ones. It takes a great deal of inspiration from Scratch. I’ve begun to explore its capabilities and limitations. The first series of “code drawings” – drawings made with code as medium – were explored with…