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Where do you see the projection of creative coding going in the future?
R I have a lot of conflicting feelings about it in terms of its applications in the art world. However, it’s one that I’m really excited to explore and can hopefully become more involved with. I think we will see more of it as new media art becomes more popular. I don’t know if it will ever become mainstream, but we may begin to see small steps being made. I went to a gallery where pieces were being displayed on digital screens, which you wouldn’t expect in a museum, as work is usually hand done. So, we’ll most likely start to see more things like that in the future. There are a handful of new media art galleries, I believe most of them are moving, that people can go to to experience work made with Processing. However, if you can’t make it to one of those, Instagram is an epicenter for code art. That’s where I find most of the work I look at and am inspired by. I mean, it’s just right there. It’s on your phone. So, I encourage people to check it out. For people who are interested in exploring creative code themselves, there are resources such as The Coding Train, which is a YouTube channel run by Daniel Shiffman who is a NYU professor in their Media Art program. He has tutorials starting all the way from the beginning with things like “Hello World” and takes you all the way into pretty advanced stuff. There’s this whole part of the art world that people aren’t getting involved with that I believe they should be. If they’re like me, they may have a less than favorable view of code due to a bad experience with it or they feel like they can’t do it. However, code is definitely for everyone and organizations such as Processing do a great job of encouraging people to get into it. At the end of the day, more people adding to the age of art automation in the world would be a wonderful thing.
Jason Cerin is a student at the University of Southern California currently pursuing a degree in International Relations and Global Business. He is the Creative Director of Haute Magazine. Eden Tokatly is an Australian photographer based out of Los Angeles, studying Law and Multimedia Design. She is also a member of the Spring 2020 Haute E-Board team serving as the Director of Multimedia.
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