Code Creates Art
This reel is a demonstration of what can be done with the latest math/drawing/physics/utility code library from toxiclibs, which is made to work with the popular graphical programming language Processing. Creating art with code is becoming easier to achieve, while producing more advanced results. This is largely due to the open source coding community’s spirit of sharing code libraries and snippets.
I’d like to share some of my favorite code-based artists – people who are pushing boundaries and creating beautiful art, often with nothing but the code they’ve written.
- Toxi – The creator of toxiclibs, and well-known amongst the graphical programming elite. He’s helped push the Processing community forward for years, and you can see some of his old work here. He’s recently created an agency to commercialize his creative techniques.
- Flight404 – Probably one of the best-known code artists, he’s made a name for himself with his beautiful and intense audio-reactive music videos. His Flickr page is nice too, and the newer versions of iTunes have his code running as the default “iTunes Visualizer”.
- Dave Bollinger – A respected member of the Processing community, he creates beautiful static imagery and animations from his code. I highly recommend browsing his Flickr stream – I’ve lost hours staring at his works.
- Jared Tarbell – Another brilliant coder who’s been around for years, constantly creating stunning new generative art. You can run many of his programs from his site, and watch his code draw intense and pretty pictures.
- Movax – A good friend of mine, and another member of the elite Processing community. His audio-reactive visuals have been taken on tour by the Black Eyed Peas and Plaid, and have been used in live situations with Amon Tobin, Mochipet and a number of electronic artists (including myself).
These guys are my inspiration when it comes to generative and audio-reactive code, but they’re just some of the names at the top of the game. If this type of art strikes your fancy, check out the links in this post and dig deeper.
Legwork Reel
Legwork Studio has been whoopin aces since their somewhat recent start a year or so back. Just today they announced their progress over that period of time and to no surprise, they have acquired two new partners and updated their site with a firey hot new motion reel. These gentlemen are no doubt a great addition to the swelling Denver creative community.
Nosaj Thing X Adam Guzman X Julia Tsao
Nosaj Thing Visual Show Compilation Test Shoot from Adam Guzman on Vimeo.
This video has been around for a minute now, but I can’t get over how sexy and refreshing the video work is here. Nosaj Thing has been one of my most valued finds over the last year of music hunting and this footage of his show has reinforced its place in my heart.
For more of Adam Guzmans work and Julia Tsao click the links man.
The Hoffman Brothers – Nike spot
Loving this new Nike spot directed by the Hoffman Brothers for the release of Paul Rodriguez’s shoe design. Clean, simple, well shot, well edited, bleached. Nice to see from such a huge brand.
Nervo
Nando Costa still getting after it… His Portland based Nervo has been putting out impressive work for what seems to be the greater half of the last decade. Yet, with all of this forward thinking motion based work, the site still lacks the somewhat common use of embeddable video. Check out Nando and his work at Nervo and at Nakd.
Black Thin King
Stop motion with wolf and pig
This is one of the most clever and creative stop motion shorts I’ve seen in ages, the simplest of narratives told brilliantly.
Adam “Espi” Espinoza
Adam Espinoza spits hot fire from Denver, CO in the form of motion graphics and design and has worked with coalitions, companies or comrades like Spillt and Digital Events. Over a small amount of time, Adam has amassed a pretty impressive client list. He recently added added some tasty newness to his site and I never got around to dropping anything on here.
If there is one person I would ever love to collab with on motion work, it would be this guy right here. Drop by and say hi.
Venour
Venour is a multidisciplinary collective hailing out of Rotterdam, Holland. The members mix and mash interactive, film, print, and fine art mediums together to produce well crafted and imaginative burst of creative joy. Venour also holds down a store-front in Rotterdam at the Meent 125, which they use as a test bed to launch their own work, as well as using it as a platform to expose and empower emerging local creative talent.
More of Venours’ work can be found at:
YouTube : Flickr : Twitter
