I’ll be teach­ing another work­shop on cre­ative cod­ing at the end of the month! Join us, and learn to use Processing to cre­ate your own inter­ac­tive, dig­i­tal art. Details at gaffta.org.

Practice, my MFA the­sis project, will be set up for you to explore this Friday in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Practice is both a work of inter­ac­tive video art and a design research project.

Unlike most other works of this medium, it does not reward bod­ily motion and exag­ger­ated ges­tures, but encour­ages patience and self-reflection. In so doing, it explores the ten­sion between emo­tional engage­ment and the uncom­fort­able ambi­gu­ity of not know­ing what will hap­pen next.

Friday, February 12

About 9:00 – 11:00pm

16th St. and Guerrero St., NE cor­ner (Map)

In the event of rain, the piece will be installed the next night, Saturday, 2/13.

While work­ing on deep ocean graph­ics for a client, I inad­ver­tently cre­ated some­thing more cloud-like.

LAIKA is a new, dynamic type­face, designed and con­structed by Nicolas Kunz and Michael Flückiger. The genius here is that visual ele­ments of the face (such as weight, serif promi­nence, and italic degree) are reframed as para­me­ters, into which can be fed val­ues from any source — either your own key­board, or some­thing more inter­est­ing like weight or dis­tance sen­sors, so the visual typo­graphic form can respond to phys­i­cal fac­tors in an instal­la­tion envi­ron­ment. Try it out!

It’s done! This weekend’s cre­at­ing cod­ing work­shop at GAFFTA went really well, despite Loveparade’s pound­ing rev­elry just out­side. In case you missed it, you can expe­ri­ence all 10.5 hours of cod­ing bliss in under two min­utes — just watch the video below. Also, check out some of the great projects that the stu­dents made.

My sou­venir Gray Area logo pin: