holiday science lecture: art, life and programming

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Cate Huston

This is not so much a talk about computers, rather a talk about people and the things we can

and do create using them.

Do you want to change the world?

A. Programmer.

The first programmer

Guess Who?

Creator of Facebook

What is art?

Is this art?

A different way to tell a story

A new kind of installation

A new means of creation

Digital meets traditional

A digitally created city

Something completely innovative

These are known as Fractals

CanadaChina

US

Old Style Blog Design

What’s Next?

Programming

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Warcraft World Editor

Remember This?

Created using Java and Processing

Created using Java and Prefuse

Created using Haskell, Python and Java and Prefuse

Human innovation is INCREDIBLE!Push boundaries!

Be limited only by your imagination!Experiment!

@kittenthebad

www.catehuston.com

[email protected]

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Twitter “fail whale”http://www.twitter.com/

Screenshot from http://wetellstories.co.uk/

Screenshot from http://www.oneandother.co.uk/

Cover of the New Yorker, May 2009. By Jorge Columbo - http://jorgecolombo.com/

Image from http://www.postsecret.com/

“Pixel City”, created by Shamus Young http://www.shamusyoung.com/ Video available at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d2-PtK4F6Y

Images and Video from I Want You To Want Me, by Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar

http://iwantyoutowantme.org/

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Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PentagramFractal.PNG

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Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Julian_fractal.jpg

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Timeline created using Timeline 3D by Bee Docs. http://www.beedocs.com/index.php

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Video available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP_hAszQPgk

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Ada LovelaceImage from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

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Figures from http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

Old style blog design from http://www.shirky.com/

Kevin Cornell, http://www.bearskinrug.co.uk/

Markus Zeeh, http://mein.meerblickzimmer.de/

Veerle Pieters, http://veerle.duoh.com/

Oliver Wagner, http://www.agenturblog.de/

Roman Leinwather, http://www.lewro.com/

Manuela Hoffmann, http://www.surfgarden.de/

Nick La, http://www.webdesignerwall.com/

Pedro Vitor Lamin Júnior, http://www.pedrolamin.com.br/

Design Disease, http://designdisease.com/blog/

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Image used with permission of Kelvin Schutz

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