Creative Coding for Android Devices

About: The workshop is an introduction to Processing for Android, exploring the creative potential of the hardware features within the current Android Devices.

Workshop instructor, Daniel Sauter will lead participants to create and experiment with a series of sensor-based android apps, such as motion and position sensors, touch screen panel, geolocation and compass, WiFi networking, 3D Scenes and much more, using softwares such as Processing 2.0b, Android SDK, and Ketai Library.
*Basic understanding of programming and access to an Android device is highly recommended

Artist Profile:

Daniel Sauter is an artist who creates interactive installations and site-specific interventions dealing with the cultural and social implications of emerging technologies. He is an Associate Professor of New Media Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Design, organizer of the Mobile Processing Conference in Chicago, and author of Rapid Android Development: Build Rich, Sensor-Based Applications with Processing (Pragmatic, 2012).

Dorkbot:

With the motto of “people doing strange things with electricity”, dorkbot (http://dorkbot.org) as a worldwide network of groups and initiatives facilitates since 10 years ago the exchange of regional as well as international exchange in between active practitioners such as artists, hackers, engineers, inventors, and DIY enthusiasts.
Dorkbot-hk was founded in 2009 as a hotbed for ‘people who do strange things with electricity’ to share and exchange creative ideas in Hong Kong. In the past, Dorkbot-hk hosted a variety of energetic creative people including Johannes Grenzfurthner (co-founder of Austrian avant garde collective monochrom), Karen Marcelo (founder of Dorkbot San Francisco, also a member of Survival Research Lab), Heather Kelley (Canadian game designer whose latest work is an intuitive vibrator interface for an iPhone app), Keith Lam (Hong Kong media artist who led a group of participants to make their own CO1 data collecting device to address our air pollution problem).

Date: 14th October 2012 (Sunday)
Time: 12:00- 4:00 pm
Venue: Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon

Workshop Fee: $150 HKD

*Workshop and Seminar are conducted in English and supplemented with Cantonese
RSVP required: [email protected] / 2573-1869