Art Hackathon - "I Want To Believe"
Details
Due to popular demand, we're having another hands-on mini art hackathon!
The theme is ... "I Want To Believe".
Art Hackathon
An art hackathon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon) means coming together in a shared space, and being collectively inspired, to create algorithmic art at the meetup itself.
Hackathons are really fun, hands on practical (there's no talk or lecture), and we're often surprised how much can be created in a limited time.
Beginners are very welcome, as well as more experienced friends who can help others.
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Artistic Constraints
All the best art emerges from constraints, often consciously self-imposed. This hack will have some constraints:
• You must create your art at openprocessing.org (https://www.openprocessing.org), which uses the web version of processing (http://processing.org) called p5js (https://p5js.org). We did a beginner's tutorial previously, with tutorial slides and video on the meetup blog (http://algorithmicartmeetup.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/a-gentle-introduction-to-processing.html).
• You must allow your code and work to be publicly viewable and freely copyable and reusable (CC-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)).
• We have 60 minutes to create the art from scratch.
• The work must be inspired by the theme "I Want To Believe". You may interpret this as you wish.
• Your own constraints (colour, shape, other) - do tell us when you're showing your work.
If people want to work together, that's fine.
Practical Stuff
To make sure things get done, we'll stick to the following schedule:
• 6.30 - 7.00pm organise teams / individuals / mentors / tasks
• 7.00 - 8.00pm mini art hack!
• 8.00 - 8.30pm show your work
Support will be available for beginners to get going, or help fix any coding problems. Volunteers for helping out really welcome!
Last time we did this it worked well - but we did have some suggestions for improvement. This time we'll set some time for teams or individuals to get organised.
There will be an opportunity to talk about your work at the end, if you let me know in good time.
Blog
All the works created in the hackathon will be shown on the Algorithmic Art blog. Please send the links using the comments or the "contact the organiser" link. Our last hackathon was written up here (http://algorithmicartmeetup.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/art-hackathon-future-pangs.html).
Please also book your place at SkillsMatter here: https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/10649-art-hackathon-i-want-to-believe
Art Hackathon - "I Want To Believe"