A couple of updates, firstly I’ve had a long paper accepted to ICMC in Huddersfield, namely Texture: Visual Notation for Live … More
Author: Alex McLean
Novels are digital art too
Digital means discrete, and analog means continuous. Digital and analog support each other, as Deleuze and Guattari put it: … … More
Pitter split
More live coding, this time multitrack (oops added wrong one earlier, fixed now): Some glitches, with audio and video falling … More
Pitter patter
Experimenting with webcam overlay. Video recorded using gstreamer, source for screencaster here (screensave.c). UPDATE, here’s another from a different angle … More
Cyclic revision control
There is something about artist-programmers, the way they’re caught using general purpose languages and tools in specific, unusual circumstances. Many … More
Languages are Languages – follow up
There are some interesting comments to my “languages are languages” post that I wanted to highlight — a disadvantage of … More
Languages are languages
Ian Bogost has an interesting argument that computer languages are not languages, but systems. He starts off arguing that learning … More
The tyranny of deadline extensions
At least in my world, it has become normal and expected for deadlines to be extended by around a week. … More
Workshop output
The Text live coding workshop went really well, surprisingly well considering it was the first time anyone apart from me … More
Text update and source
I’ve updated Text a bit to improve the visual representation of higher order types (you’d probably need to full screen … More