09-13

Agenda

  • Attendance.
  • Exit Ticket from 9/11.
  • Huw Messie (CMU BFA ’21)
  • Graphic concepts
  • Review of projects & Riso Discussion (Phase I).
  • Review of Deliverables #04
  • Exit Ticket (below).

Exit Ticket from 09/11:

I feel like the time estimates do not apply to me- something that should take someone else 20 minutes takes me around 1.5-2 hours. I guess I’m just worried that I might fall behind in the class, or at least be very slow at it. — Hmm. Is this because you feel you are not experienced enough in programming? What if I told you that some of the most experienced students in the the class have the exact same complaint (but for different reasons)? (Or are you one of them?). In any case, I remind you that this is an Intermediate-level studio, and the hardest course at CMU, to boot. You are expected to have taken something like 15-112 before this, and if not, your mileage may vary. I do want to say: I can relate; I’m a slow programmer, too. Do what you can. According to our grading contract, it’s possible to earn a B in this class by completing 76% of 6 out of the 10 assignments.

What was it like when you started with computer art? did you face a lot of challenges and how did you find your path? — Luckily, nobody threw eggs at me, as with Manfred Mohr. The main challenge was finding more information about what I was interested in. I didn’t know what my field of interest was called, and it was difficult to find out who else was working in this way. The first web browsers (Mosaic, Netscape) did not exist until spring of my senior year of college [1993], and the first search engines (Alta Vista, Lycos, Yahoo) did not exist until two years later. Another problem was that the available tools for writing software were not intended for artists; the tools were corporate, unfriendly, designed for other applications, and difficult to understand, and thus I didn’t learn to code until 1997 (when I was 25). The first free tools for creative coding (DBN, Processing)—made for artists, by artists—and their friendly communities—did not exist until 1999. I found my path when I found others like myself.

How do you make a nested truchet tile? — Check out these resources by Christopher Carlson (the same person who made those Arc Forms), they explain the technique very clearly:

Graphic Concepts

Huw Messie (CMU BFA 2021): Computational Embroidery