Yasser Rashid – Introducing Processing (2 day course)
Tuesday 13 & Thursday 15
Waterside 1, The Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
9.30 – 17.00
Advanced booking necessary
Processing: 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 a software sketchbook. Processing is an open project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas.
This two-day course constitutes an intensive and hands-on focusing on the creation of interactive sound and visual programs for online, installation or live performance using the Processing environment.
Day 1
This session focuses on getting to grips with the Processing language and environment. Through a series of exercises students develop their basic skills and knowledge and create interactive sketches that explore concepts focusing on sound and visuals.
- Processing overview
- Learning the basics (datatypes, logic, iteration, arrays)
- Object Orientation
- Using libraries
- Project – Sound generator
Day 2
This session focuses on project work. Students will be deconstructing and re-working ready made programs that explore the relationship between sound and visual. Advanced projects use video tracking as a method of interaction.
- Project 2 – Sound interaction
- Project 3 – Video manipulation
- Project 4 – Video capture
Students are expected to have a rough idea of the kind of project they would like to produce during the two-day session. Examples and inspiration can be found on: www.processing.org.
Please Note: To participate in this course students will need to have their own laptop and webcam. If the laptop does not have a built in microphone then an external mic will also be needed.
Students will need to be familiar with at least one of the following programming languages: actionscript, lingo, java, javascript.
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