Readings / Videos
Books
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- Make: Getting Started with p5.js: Making Interactive Graphics in JavaScript and Processing, by Lauren McCarthy, Casey Reas and Ben Fry.
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- Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with JavaScript in p5.js, by Benedikt Grob, Hartmut Bohnacker, Julia Laub and Claudius Lazzeroni
online
- Ira Greenberg, Processing: Code Art History
- Daniel Kahanski, Moths in the Machine, Part 1
- Daniel Kahanski, Moths in the Machine, Part 2, pp. 35-61
- Janet Murray, Inventing the Medium, Chapter 2, Affordances of the Digital Medium
- Edward Shanken, A Survey of Art and Electronic Media (brief intro digital media art)
Articles
- Jim Campbell, “Delusions of Dialogue”
- Paul Graham, “Hackers and Painters”
- Michael Naimark, “First Word Art / Last Word Art”
- Jon McCormack et al., “10 Questions Concerning Generative Computer Art”