I’m very excited to announce that I will be co-teaching a two-day intro­duc­tion to Processing at the new Gray Area Foundation for the Arts here in San Francisco! The work­shop is the first in a series on cre­ative cod­ing, and coin­cides with Gray Area’s grand open­ing cel­e­bra­tions and ini­tial exhi­bi­tion, fea­tur­ing work by C.E.B. Reas, Camille Utterback, and Stamen Design.

The Gray Area folks have cre­ated an amaz­ing space down­town, and this work­shop is an excit­ing chance to learn a ton of great new skills, and even meet one of Processing’s co-initiators. (C.E.B. will be mak­ing an appearance.)

The work­shop is sched­uled for Saturday, October 3rd & Sunday, October 4th, 1:00 – 6:00pm both days.

See GAFFTA’s site for the com­plete sched­ule, details, and reg­is­tra­tion.

Thanks to TechCrunch for cap­tur­ing some video of App Store visu­al­iza­tion on dis­play at Apple’s WWDC con­fer­ence this week. A mas­sive grid of iPhone appli­ca­tion icons, arranged by color, pul­sates as each app is pur­chased through the App Store.

I gen­er­ated this image from the genetic code of a California case of H1N1 (posted today by the CDC). I fed the data into my color tools project, and assigned one color for each base found in DNA: ade­nine (A), cyto­sine (C), gua­nine (G) and thymine (T). The col­ors were cho­sen by search­ing ColourLovers for each of those base names and using the top result, i.e. the “best” col­ors for A, C, G, and T, accord­ing to ColourLovers.

I’ve been think­ing about how best to aural­ize data. I real­ize that’s not a real word (yet), but con­sider aural­iza­tion to be visu­al­iza­tion’s audi­tory sib­ling. The music video by Johannes Kreidler above, while hokey, is both inno­v­a­tive and entertaining.

Add Chris Jordan to the list of peo­ple I want to meet.