"ART AND CODE," Spring 2009

Programming environments for artists, young people, and the rest of us. March 7-9, 2009 Carnegie Mellon University Homepage, <a href="http://artandcode.com">http://artandcode.com</a> <A HREF="http://artandcode.ning.com/page/register-1">REGISTRATION</a> begins February 6, 2009. For any questions or concerns, please email golan@andrew.cmu.edu. OVERVIEW: Saturday features intensive half-day workshops in programming environments taught by leading developers and authors. Some workshops are intended for more advanced users, but many are introductory in nature and are suited for all ages. Sunday offers a series of 50-minute lectures on each programming environment. PLUS join us for a special program of abstract films and early computer animation from 8-10pm at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. Admission is free with your conference badge. Monday begins with “Hello World” workshops that are ideal for beginners (two morning sessions), followed by panel discussions for developers and educators after lunch. Act 48 Compliance: We are completing the process and expect to offer Act 48 certification (Continuing Professional Education credits) for all conference activities. MOTIVATION: Just as true literacy in English means being able to write as well as read, true literacy in software demands not only knowing how to use commercial software tools, but how to create new software for oneself and others. Today, most people are still woefully limited in their ability to create their own software. They would like to make their own software tools, but think that programming is “too hard.” The problem, it turns out, may not be programming itself so much as the ways in which it is conventionally taught. Recently, a number of projects dedicated to democratizing the education of computational thinking have coalesced. Emerging primarily from the arts sector, a set of new programming environments (and accompanying pedagogic techniques) have been developed by artists, and for artists, that help regular folks and other non-computer-scientists learn to program. Using visual and musical expression as the “hook”, thousands of people have not only learned to code using these new environments, but found new reasons to code in the first place. These environments – many of which are free, open-source initiatives – have made enormous inroads towards expanding the computational abilities and interests of hundreds of thousands of creative people worldwide. You too can join this movement! This conference is for: <ul> <li>Teens, undergraduates, and graduate students who wish to combine art, design and computer science;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Middle-school and high-school teachers who want a more expressive way of teaching programming and computer arts;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>College educators and professional artists who want to learn the most cutting edge environments for interaction design;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Anyone who has been wanting to learn how to program their own software, but hasn’t known where to start!</li> </ul> PRESENTERS: > <a href="http://artandcode.ning.com/page/tom-mcmail">Tom McMail</a>, Microsoft Research (Keynote Speaker) > <a href="http://artandcode.ning.com/page/wanda-dann">Dr. Wanda Dann</a>, Carnegie Mellon (Alice) > <a href="http://artandcode.ning.com/page/don-slater>Don Slater</a>, Carnegie Mellon (Alice) > <a href="http://artandcode.ning.com/page/ben-fry">Ben Fry</a>, (Processing) > <a href="http://artandcode.ning.com/page/casey-reas">Casey Reas</a>, UCLA (Processing) > <a href="http://artandcode.ning.com/page/daniel-shiffman">Daniel Shiffman</a>, NYU (Processing) > <a href="http://artandcode.ning.com/page/ira-greenberg">Ira Greenberg</a>, Miami U. of Ohio (Processing + Flash) > <a href="http://artandcode.ning.com/page/luke-dubois">Luke DuBois</a>, (Max/MSP/Jitter) > <a href="http://artandcode.ning.com/page/zachary-lieberman">Zachary Lieberman</a>, Parsons School of Design (openFrameworks) > <a href="http://artandcode.ning.com/page/sebastian-oschatz">Sebastian Oschatz</a>, Meso.net (vvvv) > <a href="http://artandcode.ning.com/page/why-the-lucky-stiff">why the lucky stiff</a> (Hackety Hack) > <a href="http://artandcode.ning.com/page/evelyn-eastmond">Evelyn Eastmond</a>, MIT Media Laboratory (Scratch) > <a href="http://artandcode.ning.com/page/john-maloney">John Maloney</a>, MIT Media Laboratory (Scratch) > <a href="http://artandcode.ning.com/page/golan-levin">Golan Levin</a>, Carnegie Mellon (Conference Organizer)

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