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DevArt: Art made with code

77 points by petercooper 13y ago

fournm 13y ago
This actually took long enough to load (25 seconds?) that at first I wondered if the loading animation was the referred-to art. The actual art is interesting, but ouch.
vezzy-fnord 13y ago
At first I thought "What ever happened to calling it a demo?", but these go beyond that. Some clever public API (ab)uses to be found.
bglazer 13y ago
I really love code as art. I do a bit during my free time, but it's a dream to do it full-time. Does anyone know how to break into this field?
- dtf 13y ago
  I guess it's a bit like doing regular art full-time. Get yourself a name, a mystique, an agent, a benefactor. Skill is one thing, but success requires marketing. (that said there's a number people who manage to do a regular bill-paying job and pursue an artistic endeavour on the side - eg Andy Lomas works at the Foundry by day and then does cool CUDA-powered music videos by night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qMvqeEUzzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qMvqeEUzzw . I think it helps to try to at least work in a creative or visual industry though.)
  - bglazer 13y ago
    Thanks for the reply. Any other suggestions on artists to watch?
Mithaldu 13y ago
No mention of demoscene on the entire site, very disappointing. For some OG dev art, do head to pouet: http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?order=thumbup http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?order=thumbup
- leeoniya 13y ago
  also make sure to play kkrieger from http://www.theproduct.de/ http://www.theproduct.de/ d/l: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036 http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036 also check out ryg's blog: http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/category/demoscene/ http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/category/demoscene/
- kingnight 13y ago
  Looked that up and came across: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Assembly2004-areena01.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Assembly2004-areena01.jpg What a difference 10 years makes.
  - callahad 13y ago
    For context, here's a photo from last year's Assembly: http://assembly.galleria.fi/kuvat/Assembly+Summer+2013/Aleksi+Kinnunen/_V7Q9080.jpg http://assembly.galleria.fi/kuvat/Assembly+Summer+2013/Aleks...
- admsyn 13y ago
  Yeah it's unfortunate they didn't mention the demoscene but if we're talking "OG", there's a history of media artists creating "dev art" that goes back to the same time if not further. E.g. Videoplace (~early 1970s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmxVA5xhuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmxVA5xhuo
- PavlovsCat 13y ago
  also: http://scene.org/ http://scene.org/ http://www.bitfellas.org/outreach.php http://www.bitfellas.org/outreach.php http://www.capped.tv/ http://www.capped.tv/ http://www.demoscene.tv/ http://www.demoscene.tv/
- ekianjo 13y ago
  > No mention of demoscene on the entire site, Hey, the demo scene existed way before "making art with code" became an expression owned by the young hipsters who think they invented everything, so no wonder they don't even consider it exists.
SamuelKillin 13y ago
I can't wait until code is no longer seen as this mechanical and mysterious thing. Stuff like this will no longer need to be explicitly be "Art with Code", instead it can just be "Art made by describing it"
atat 13y ago
"DevArt is a new type of art", "DevArt is the opportunity to open their creative process, share their art with the world and be a part of a new movement in art." Why are they pretending to have invented this? Net art (or whatever you want to call it) has been a thing since the 90s, Rhizome has plenty of early examples (http://rhizome.org/artbase/ http://rhizome.org/artbase/)
- piratebroadcast 13y ago
  If we count ascii art it goes back further than that.
  - deleted 13y ago
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- spb 13y ago
  Display hacks are one of the oldest forms of code. TMRC was hacking them together even before the PDP-1.
pnathan 13y ago
A (fairly poor) study I did last year on code as art lives here: http://faegernis.com/ http://faegernis.com/ I would like to get back to it sometime, but my knowledge of aesthestics is limited.
paulrov 13y ago
Really disappointing you had to work with Googles APIs. This might seem normal for the developer/hackathon world but in the art world companies are usually happy to sponsor art when it has nothing to do with their products
kmfrk 13y ago
Seems kinda dumb to name your project after possibly the biggest art community in the world: http://deviantart.com http://deviantart.com.
tobal 13y ago
Since demoscene is mostly happening in Europe, and hardly existent in America and the far east, I can see why they wanted to give it a different name. They don't even know what demoscene is.

77 points by petercooper 13y ago

This actually took long enough to load (25 seconds?) that at first I wondered if the loading animation was the referred-to art. The actual art is interesting, but ouch.

vezzy-fnord 13y ago

At first I thought "What ever happened to calling it a demo?", but these go beyond that. Some clever public API (ab)uses to be found.

bglazer 13y ago

I really love code as art. I do a bit during my free time, but it's a dream to do it full-time. Does anyone know how to break into this field?

dtf 13y ago
I guess it's a bit like doing regular art full-time. Get yourself a name, a mystique, an agent, a benefactor. Skill is one thing, but success requires marketing. (that said there's a number people who manage to do a regular bill-paying job and pursue an artistic endeavour on the side - eg Andy Lomas works at the Foundry by day and then does cool CUDA-powered music videos by night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qMvqeEUzzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qMvqeEUzzw . I think it helps to try to at least work in a creative or visual industry though.)
- bglazer 13y ago
  Thanks for the reply. Any other suggestions on artists to watch?

Mithaldu 13y ago

No mention of demoscene on the entire site, very disappointing. For some OG dev art, do head to pouet: http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?order=thumbup http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?order=thumbup

leeoniya 13y ago
also make sure to play kkrieger from http://www.theproduct.de/ http://www.theproduct.de/ d/l: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036 http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036 also check out ryg's blog: http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/category/demoscene/ http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/category/demoscene/
kingnight 13y ago
Looked that up and came across: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Assembly2004-areena01.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Assembly2004-areena01.jpg What a difference 10 years makes.
- callahad 13y ago
  For context, here's a photo from last year's Assembly: http://assembly.galleria.fi/kuvat/Assembly+Summer+2013/Aleksi+Kinnunen/_V7Q9080.jpg http://assembly.galleria.fi/kuvat/Assembly+Summer+2013/Aleks...
admsyn 13y ago
Yeah it's unfortunate they didn't mention the demoscene but if we're talking "OG", there's a history of media artists creating "dev art" that goes back to the same time if not further. E.g. Videoplace (~early 1970s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmxVA5xhuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmxVA5xhuo
PavlovsCat 13y ago
also: http://scene.org/ http://scene.org/ http://www.bitfellas.org/outreach.php http://www.bitfellas.org/outreach.php http://www.capped.tv/ http://www.capped.tv/ http://www.demoscene.tv/ http://www.demoscene.tv/
ekianjo 13y ago
> No mention of demoscene on the entire site, Hey, the demo scene existed way before "making art with code" became an expression owned by the young hipsters who think they invented everything, so no wonder they don't even consider it exists.

SamuelKillin 13y ago

I can't wait until code is no longer seen as this mechanical and mysterious thing. Stuff like this will no longer need to be explicitly be "Art with Code", instead it can just be "Art made by describing it"

atat 13y ago

"DevArt is a new type of art", "DevArt is the opportunity to open their creative process, share their art with the world and be a part of a new movement in art." Why are they pretending to have invented this? Net art (or whatever you want to call it) has been a thing since the 90s, Rhizome has plenty of early examples (http://rhizome.org/artbase/ http://rhizome.org/artbase/)

piratebroadcast 13y ago
If we count ascii art it goes back further than that.
- deleted 13y ago
  [deleted]
spb 13y ago
Display hacks are one of the oldest forms of code. TMRC was hacking them together even before the PDP-1.

pnathan 13y ago

A (fairly poor) study I did last year on code as art lives here: http://faegernis.com/ http://faegernis.com/ I would like to get back to it sometime, but my knowledge of aesthestics is limited.

paulrov 13y ago

Really disappointing you had to work with Googles APIs. This might seem normal for the developer/hackathon world but in the art world companies are usually happy to sponsor art when it has nothing to do with their products

kmfrk 13y ago

Seems kinda dumb to name your project after possibly the biggest art community in the world: http://deviantart.com http://deviantart.com.

tobal 13y ago

Since demoscene is mostly happening in Europe, and hardly existent in America and the far east, I can see why they wanted to give it a different name. They don't even know what demoscene is.