June 19th, 2007
Flashbelt: Day 2
Highlights and thoughts from the second day of the Flashbelt conference:
Tim Armato: Tim presented a brief introduction to Processing. He encouraged attendees to approach Processing playfully. It was good to see the not-a-flash-killer project represented.
Mario Klingemann: Mario presented an interesting piece of software designed to generatively create unique images by examining and responding to salient image features (i.e. line orientation, grayscale levels, cross-correlation, symmetry, etc.). While interesting, it wasn’t clear why he chose to implement the app and its heavy algorithms (e.g. the Hough Transform) in AS3. To me, the final images he produced made me think of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement (e.g. New Objectivity, particularly the work of Max Beckmann. Of course others might disagree, but his images had an unexpectedly rich texture. Interestingly, he sent the digital paintings off to a company in China where they were painted in oil for him.
One Response to “Flashbelt: Day 2”
matthew pacyga said it on June 20th, 2007 at 10:44 amYou forgot to mention the horrible presentation of two dudes from fallon. They were proposing that technology is going to save advertising. But the idea of technology saving advertising seems a bit odd because its dependent on the people or think engines of that company to save themselves. But honestly, the fallon dudes did not have the steam to back up there over thought. The kicker at the end of the world (or there presentation) was asking the audience to solve a problem, but the problem was not thought out correctly and the solutions were blogged down by bad responses. Anywho… It was not engaging and felt more like a “look at this youtube video, isn’t it cool,” type of presentation. Lame.
