In a recent question I was introduced to the work of André Michelle, which blew me away. What other great people or works do you know in the fields of art and music? As someone with a love for math/programming and art/music I'd love to know more about people using sophisticated (or not so sophisticated) techniques to produce creative things. The software used can be anything from Max/MSP, Flash to simple C code or Assembler. Pointers to forums, blogs, newsletters and similar are very appreciated as well.
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The processing "language" (by Ben Fry and Casey Reas) and electric sheep (the work of Scott Draves) are both well known examples.
http://community.electricsheep.org/
I should also mention the port of processing to the HTML canvas by John Resig:
Jonathon
2010-03-09 14:35:14
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Erik Natzke comes to mind when you say "math/programming and art" http://jot.eriknatzke.com/
Lars
2010-03-09 21:10:26
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One good thing to search for turned out to be Generative Art. For instance this Blog (with videos). http://www.generatorx.no/category/generative-art/
jacob
2010-03-18 15:45:56
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The "Demo scene" has a whole bunch of very creative procedural visual effects and music (link: http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?order=views ). The goal of a "demo" is to provide the most visual effects within a specific file size ( i.e. 1kb ).
DarthShader
2010-03-20 01:22:56
I loved Chaos Theory demo by Conspiracy. http://chaostheory.conspiracy.hu/
Allan
2010-03-25 04:49:22
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One of the most breath-taking projects I have ever seen are the ones using Arduino. The limit is nothing but your imagination!
lunohodov
2010-03-22 17:19:23
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If you haven't already, I recommend reading Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. It beautifully interweaves programming, maths and AI with art, music and poetry in a wonderfully fun and interesting way.
Mike Howard
2010-03-24 23:24:38
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Am I allowed to nominate myself?
I think what I do is cool, and what my buddy Joshue Ott does is perhaps cooler.
morgancodes
2010-03-24 23:32:15
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Princeton's Laptop Orchestra http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/
Synthaxe drumitar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumitar
Hodgepodge of sources on experimental musical instruments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_musical_instrument
Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program, sample projects http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/ Dan O'Sullivan http://itp.nyu.edu/~dbo3/blog/
Robert Twomey strange stuff http://roberttwomey.com/projects/
Hiroshi ISHII and tangible media http://web.media.mit.edu/~ishii/ http://tangible.media.mit.edu/
Polynomiography http://www.polynomiography.com/
Ken Perlin's cool stuff http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/
Ted Selker hci stuff http://web.media.mit.edu/~selker/teaching.htm
Natalie Jeremijenko's wacky projects, robotics http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/
Toshio Iwai http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/tag/toshio-iwai
Matt Hope http://matthope.org/
Vestal Design http://www.vestaldesign.com/design/
(mentioned already) Processing multimedia framework http://processing.org/
(mentioned already) Arduino http://hacknmod.com/hack/top-40-arduino-projects-of-the-web/
ARToolKit http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/
Human Interface Lab http://www.hitlabnz.org/wiki/Home#ptr35
Make magazine http://makezine.com/
Paul
2010-03-25 02:33:40