Patreon-Exclusive recording of my talk for Decimal Studios, New York
Added 2023-04-21 14:00:03 +0000 UTCHello dear people! 👋🏼
I hope you are all well! I am now on my way back to Germany. Actually I'm in Prague at the Mouvo Festival right now, but after that I'm going back to Germany after 14 weeks in Barcelona. I'm really looking forward to my friends and my own four walls.
Today I'm sending you a recording of my talk "Creative Coding as a School of Thought", which I've given at various venues in the meantime. Basically it's about a series of thoughts around Creative Coding, which I developed during my master studies in Bielefeld. This recording is from April 7 and the audience was the wonderful folks from Decimal, a design studio based in Brooklyn, New York.
If you've watched the talk, please share the thought(s) you found most important and inspiring. Also, I welcome critical questions and notes. As always, just post in the comments.
Next week I will get back to you from Paderborn.
Have a nice weekend! ☀️🌴
Tim
Comments
Hi Ricardo! Thanks a lot for sharing these thoughts with us! For me it is very important to give insights into my opinions to make sure the community understands why i do the things the way i do them. I will go deeper into these points in the near future.
Tim Rodenbröker
2023-04-24 15:14:09 +0000 UTCHi Nancy! Thanks for your comment, really like to hear that you liked the talk. I am thinking a lot about the question whats the relationship between AI and Creative Coding and will resease my thoughts on this topic in the near future.
Tim Rodenbröker
2023-04-24 14:34:26 +0000 UTCHi Tim, thanks for sharing! Very interesting thoughts as introductory concepts for anyone wanting to start in creative coding. Things that I've highlighted for myself: - The fact that in most cases creative coding or generative design can be seen as a tool that produces complicated or abstract outputs, with no meaning or no direct application in graphic design, but it's just the opposite, as you're demostrating through your teachings. - Today's graphic designers need to integrate coding in their toolbox because of the characteristics of the medium in which we work, as we clearly see in the connections of your courses and Martin's about Flexible Visual Identities and systems. - Creative Coding as a exploration/research/process of sketching ideas with no specific goal (and maybe some of these ideas can be used as foundations for future projects) - Creative Coding is not something that you would like to outsource to AI because is a process of thought and, as Martin have said in some occasion, outsourcing our thougt processes to AI seems not a good idea. I really enjoy precisely this part of creative coding where maybe I can struggle for some hours to get a result I'm looking for, and I don't want AI to steal me this feeling of excitement when I get through it! I would also recommend this post https://runemadsen.com/blog/on-meta-design-and-algorithmic-design-systems/ that connects with some of the ideas of the talk.
Ricardo Lodroño
2023-04-24 09:22:58 +0000 UTCHi Tim, thanks for sharing the talk. It was a nice summary of your journey and thoughts on creative coding. For me it was particularly inspiring to hear that learning creative coding is not a linear process, that there are ups and downs (and a very slow beginning... - I am still looking forward to my Eureka moment...). I also loved your metaphor on asking ChatGPT to create some code. In the only time I used it, I actually asked for some creative coding examples. Again, just like you said, if we don't go through the learning process on our own, we have no clue on how to correct the code. Thanks for your thoughts!
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