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DIGITAL CRAFT

PARSONS FIRST YEAR SPRING ELECTIVE

This course will introduce students to the building blocks of creative computing within a visual and media environment. Students will learn to create dynamic images, type and interfaces, that can translate into print, web, and other spatial forms. Through weekly topics, students will learn programming fundamentals that translate to virtually all programming languages and that will later be paired with various other platforms for creative input and output.

RESPONSE PIECE

https://www.creativeapplications.net/vvvv/alt-c-designing-for-synergy-between-our-ecosystems-and-network-economics/

Assignment: Find a project from Processing Exhibition (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., Creative Applications (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site, that speaks to your artistic practice or interests.

    1. Identify the key concept(s) or approaches that speak to you.

    2. Create a response piece to the project that you are interested in.  Could be 2d or 3 dimensional.

“Alt-C is an installation that uses electricity produced by plants to power a single board computer mining a cryptocurrency. The project questions our relationship to ecosystems in regards to networked technologies and abstraction problematics.”

I found this piece of installation really appealing to me, as it merges technology with nature. The concept that “money grows on trees as it (technically) does here, then is it possible to draw a correlation between atmospheric condition and production of cryptocurrencies.” I decided to create an installation piece that reflects how it is rare for us to see nature without being disturbed.

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In cryptocurrency networks, mining is a validation of transactions. For this effort, successful miners obtain new cryptocurrency as a reward. The reward decreases transaction fees by creating a complementary incentive to contribute to the processing…

In cryptocurrency networks, mining is a validation of transactions. For this effort, successful miners obtain new cryptocurrency as a reward. The reward decreases transaction fees by creating a complementary incentive to contribute to the processing power of the network.

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drawing tool

creating a drawing tool using processing - responding to Alt-C is an installation.

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creative patterns using code

using code in processing to create patterns