Processing Chicago: Jessica Westbrook and Adam Trowbridge: free and open source textBook/toolKit for art foundations

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When: Monday, December 3rd, 2012 @ 6 PM
Where: Electronic Visualization Lab @ University of Illlinois at Chicago


Jessica Westbrook and Adam Trowbridge, who collaborate as Channel TWo, will give a presentation and initiate a discussion on the topics raised by their project free and open source textBook/toolKit for art foundations, for which they were recently awarded a Rhizome commission. 

This will be the last Processing Chicago meeting of 2012, and will be an excellent way to wrap up the first year of meetings. This presentation and discussion is relevant to all students, educators and practitioners of media/computational arts, and all are welcome. 

Short bio: 
Adam Trowbridge and Jessica Westbrook collaborate as Channel TWo (CH2), a studio/research construct focused on mixed reality, media, design, development, and distribution, authorized formats + unauthorized ideas, systems of control + radical togetherness. Channel TWo is loosely aligned with the concept of over-identification, Slavoj Zizek's description of a tactic intended to reveal the hidden nature of dominant ideologies -- not by pointing to them but by becoming extreme forms of them. CH2 Projects intersect joyful/play-oriented aesthetic experiences and user interfaces with challenging social undercurrents.

Processing Chicago serves as a node for workshops and presentations, hosting a monthly meeting at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The meetings consist of workshops and presentations given by artists, designers and scientists exploring creative research using a variety of media and toolsets, including (but not limited to) Processing, Arduino, openFrameworks, Cinder, Max/MSP and Supercollider. 

The meetings are free and open to the public and take place the first Monday of every month at 6pm in the Cyber-Commons at the EVL. 

If you'd like to present or have any questions, tweet or DM @ProcessingCHI on Twitter.



Joshua Albers
New Media Arts MFA Candidate 
University of Illinois at Chicago
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