Processing Community Day

A free one-day conference-shaped celebration of creative coding, art, and open source! Coffee, talks, demos. No creative coding or programming experience required. NOTE: We were unable to secure wheelchair-accessible venue. "Processing Community Day (PCD) is a worldwide series of community-led events celebrating art, code, and open-source creative tools. Events are organized by local communities around the globe." SCHEDULE * 11:00am - Coffee, opening remarks * 11:30 - Lightning talks * 12:30 - Lunch * 1:30 - TBD - Mystery workshop or talk * 2:00 - Break * 2:10 - Talk: Small videogames with big ambitions \| Rafael Fajardo * 2:55 - Break * 3:05 - Talk: The Depth of Words \| Joel Swanson * 3:50 - Break * 4:00 - Coplanar Nations \| Phillip David Stearns * 4:30 - Closing remarks SPEAKERS / TALKS Rafael Fajardo Artist, designer, researcher, and educator Small videogames with big ambitions In this talk Rafael Fajardo will share the processes, failures, and successes behind his games: Crosser (p5js+play); and Migraciones (C#, Unity, and OpenTSPS). The games are small in that all gameplay occurs in a single screen. They are ambitious in their attempts at poetic use of game mechanics to comment on culture. --- Joel Swanson Interdisciplinary artist The Depth of Words Writing has always had depth, from chisel cuts in stone to a drop shadow in one line of CSS.