[-empyre-] new media and "Processing"

["Jim Andrews" <jim@vispo.com>]

Concerning programming and art, I saw a post to the [public transObs] list
(France) concerning Processing ( http://processing.org/ ):

"Processing is a programming language and environment built for the
electronic arts and visual design communities. It was created to teach
fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as
an electronic sketchbook.

The software is currently in a prerelease stage, but bug fixes are being
made as we head toward a more complete "1.0" release. Processing will be
free to download and available for Mac, PC, and Linux.

In addition to the many individuals using Processing, it is currently used
at many universities and institutions including: MIT (Cambridge),
Interaction Ivrea (Turin), Yale (New Haven), Columbia (New York), New York
University, San Francisco Art Institute, University of California Los
Angeles, Universität der Künste (Berlin), Royal College of Art (London),
Universidad de Los Andes (Bogota), HyperWerk (Basel), Hongik (Seoul), Ateneo
de Manila University, and more.

Processing is an open project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. It is
currently developed at the MIT Media Lab, UCLA, Interaction Ivrea, and by a
group of distributed developers across the Net."

ja
http://vispo.com