Update: In my eagerness to announce these workshops I made a scheduling error, incorrectly thinking the dates would be March 15+16 rather than 16+17. As a result I need to move one of the workshops to the weekend before, and since the Intro workshop should happen before the Advanced the new dates will be:

• Saturday March 9: Introduction to Processing and Generative Art
• Saturday March 16: Generative Art, Advanced Topics

Sorry for the confusion! On the plus side the Intro workshop might now be a smaller group which should make it nice and intimate.

I haven’t done any workshops in New York since November, so I have decided to offer my Intro and Advanced Generative Art workshops back-to-back the weekend of March 16+17 on consecutive weekends, Saturday March 9 and Saturday March 17.

The venue will be my apartment in comfortable Park Slope, Brooklyn. As usual I have 8 spots available for each workshop, they do tend to reach capacity so get in touch sooner rather than later. Reservation is by email and your spot is confirmed once I receive payment via PayPal.

The workshops will be taught using the most recent Processing 2.0 beta version (2.0b8 as of this moment), and as usual I will be using my own Modelbuilder library as a toolkit for solving the tasks we look. Familiarizing yourself with Processing 2.0 and Modelbuilder would be good preparation.

Make sure to download Modelbuilder-0019 and Control-P5 2.0.4, then run through the provided examples. Check OpenProcessing.org for more Modelbuilder examples.

Note about dataviz: I know there is a lot of interest in data vizualization and I do get asked about that frequently in workshops. I can’t promise to cover data in detail since it’s a pretty big topic.

If you’re specifically looking for data techniques I would recommend looking at the excellent workshops series taught by my friend Jer Thorp. He currently offers two such workshops, titled “Processing and Data Visualization” and “Archive, Text, & Character(s)”.