Holiday Science Lecture: Art, Life and Programming

, , and 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

China Canada 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 catehuston@googlewave.com

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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/

Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ File:Mandel_zoom_00_mandelbrot_set.jpg Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ File:Mandel_zoom_14_satellite_julia_island.j pg Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ File:PentagramFractal.PNG Wikipedia, http://upload.wikimedia.org/ wikipedia/commons/2/21/ Hidden_Mandarin_fractal_Sterling2_3365.jpg Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ File:Julian_fractal.jpg

Images created using Processing http://www.processing.org Timeline created using Timeline 3D by Bee Docs. http://www.beedocs.com/index.php Credit: flickr / takomabibelot http://www.flickr.com/photos/takomabibelot/ 3050589967/ Video available at http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=LP_hAszQPgk Credit: flickr / Kuzeytac ( So, SO busy...) http://www.flickr.com/photos/kuzeytac/ 3459680851/

Credit: flickr / HuTDoG83 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ hutdog83/3780329473/ Photo taken at Museum of Science and Technology in Tokyo, Japan Credit: flickr / just Luh. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ meaning_absence/2893923578/ Credit: flickr / KhE http://www.flickr.com/photos/khedara/ 2441552217/ Credit: flickr / hichako http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/ 3142612031/

Credit: flickr / macwagen http://www.flickr.com/photos/macwagen/ 2143505195/ Credit: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jeeves- in-2009.jpg Credit: flickr / Dunechaser http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/ 134672040/ Photo taken at Museum of Science and Technology in Tokyo, Japan Ada Lovelace Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ File:Ada_lovelace.jpg

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Credit: ﬂickr / Pink Sherbet Photography http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/ 238034272/ 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/

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