The relationship between artists writing code and experimental film and video is a long and rich history. In this workshop for beginners and intermediate coders, I’ll share a few code examples written in Processing that process 2D images to create time-based visual experiences. We’ll have time to explore these examples and to make things together.

We’ll start the workshop by looking a relevant historical examples including “flicker films” and collage films from artists including Man Ray, Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, and Stan Brakhage. The Expanded Cinema book by Gene Youngblood featured by Gray Area in 2020 is our guide. We’ll look at some examples from my own work over the last twenty years, then we’ll walk through code examples that take images apart and use the image data to create videos that abstract the original images. These small code examples have been developed in my studio over the years to assist with making my work.