The document discusses a panel featuring various artists and technologists exploring the intersection of art and technology, particularly in regard to digital tools and applications. It raises questions about whether these technologies facilitate genuine creativity or merely enable repetitive styles, while highlighting the potential of mobile devices as platforms for artistic expression. The panelists consider the implications of such tools for both professional artists and non-artistic users, emphasizing the evolving nature of creative practices.

1. What Would
Picasso Do?
featured panelists
Mathias Dahlström
Jason Fields
Tom Hume
mills™
Filip Visnjic
moderated by
Franco Papeschi
Bryan Rieger

2. a convenient device for
creative expression
http://www.flickr.com/photos/malcolmtredinnick/934878538

3. Lang Lang
the flight of the bumble bee...

4. Lang Lang
the flight of the bumble bee...

5. David Hockney
turns the ipad into an art form

6. will devices simply replace
sketchbooks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whatleydude/4567021791

7. or become a unique
creative medium
http://www.flickr.com/photos/garysoup/4773576910

8. Tom
has been thinking about art...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/twhume/3962275216

10. Fuck the
advertising
and media
industries
for capitalising the word
‘Creative’, pretending it’s
magic pixie dust and
selling it back to us at a
day rate of hundreds to
keep us permanently
dissatisfied.

11. Fuck the
advertising
and media
industries
for capitalising the word
– Joseph Beuys
”
Everyone is an artist
‘Creative’, pretending it’s
magic pixie dust and
selling it back to us at a
day rate of hundreds to
keep us permanently
dissatisfied.

12. History of Art
Blombos beads Lady Gaga
(75,000 BC) (2010 AD)

13. History of Art
Currency
(2000BC on)
Blombos beads Lady Gaga
(75,000 BC) (2010 AD)

14. History of Art
Music industry
(mid-18th century on)
Blombos beads Lady Gaga
(75,000 BC) (2010 AD)

15. 1. Digital as extension of
physical faculties in the
real world
2. Digital as place where
art happens before
being made real
3. ???

16. Art
Doesn’t Scale
• Apollo took 400k people
• Where’s equivalent scale art?
• What would it look like?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisspurgeon/287135413/

17. Constraints
• Not For The Faint Hearted
• Mobile Mountains
• Twitter
• George Lucas
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/3256109022

18. • Trust of technology?
• Trust of artists?
• British politeness?
You
Trusted Us
http://www.flickr.com/photos/twhume/3962275216

19. mills™
is enabling creativity

29. Mathias
has been playing with plasticine

32. Jason
has been looking at apps...

33. Filip
has been thinking about art...

34. CreativeApplications.Net
Filip
Visnjic
Architect
Lecturer
New Media Technologist
Writer
Founder/Editor - CreativeApplications.Net
Curator - Processing.org
Director at Working Architecture Group
Lecturer at University of Westminster , University of Greenwich , UCA

35. ..the architect first as a formulator, an inventor of relations what will be called in this
context the ‘ Combinative’, that is, the set of combinations and permutations that is
possible under different categories of analysis (space, movement, event, technique,
symbol, etc), as opposed to the more traditional play between function or use and
form or style.
Bernard Tschumi.

36. + !1 !2 !3 ◊
Designing for Interaction
- Innovation
- Linear vs Dynamic ◊
! 1/2
- Goals vs Accidents
- Framing / Positioning !4 X
- Interactive vs Reactive + !1
- Experience vs Tool !3
- Ownership
! 4/2
! 3/2 ◊

37. ECOLOGY
+ +
Digital Ecosystems +
- Networks +
- Relations
- Devices + ! +
- Social +
+ +

38. web http://www.creativeapplications.net
twitter @creativeapps
apps http://apps.creativeapplications.net

39. In recent years we've seen a number of artists put
aside their brushes in favour of IDEs, frameworks
and compilers. We've also seen developers start
experimenting with more creative endeavours.
Do tools such as Processing (and variants
iProcessing, Processing,js, OpenFrameworks and
Cinder++) help to facilitate art on mobile devices, or
merely provide a convenient means of repetition
within a certain style?

40. We have artists such as David Hockney and Lang
Lang picking up these devices and having great fun
experimenting with them today.
Do you think we might one day see serious works
created exclusively for these types of devices?
(ie: an arrangement by Phillip Glass for 8 iPhones
and 3 iPads over a 3G network...)

41. The iPad (and to a lesser extent the iPhone) have
been heavily criticised for being 'content
consumption' rather than 'content creation' devices.
With this in mind, where do you see the potential
for apps such as Brushes, Sketchbook Pro, Magic
Piano, etc. Are they merely frivolous distractions, or
could these apps be used for serious works?

42. Apps such as Granimator allow users with little
artistic ability to create wonderful compositions
using elements from various artists and palettes.
Unlike Brushes and Sketchbook Pro, Granimator is a
much more accessible tool for people to scratch
their creative itches.
How can developers create apps than enable
creative play and exploration for non-artistic users?

43. Apparently "real artists steal"... what ideas can
developers 'borrow' from such creative/art related
applications, and how could they apply them to
more traditional productivity related (aka business
focused) apps?
What are the useful consequences of such art
related applications? Are there any?

44. Thank you
featured panelists
Mathias Dahlström
Jason Fields
Tom Hume
mills™
Filip Visnjic
moderated by
Franco Papeschi
Bryan Rieger