making apps, making webs.

The pygame Artist in Residence grant celebrates the Python arts community and lends a tiny bit of support to someones art practice. Josh Bartlett was the first recipient. An artist residency usually works something like; a person spends some time in either a gallery making something to present or in a music club doing a weekly spot. The pygame artist in residence will do it in their own space, but be present on the top of the pygame website in the form of a thumbnail and a link to their patreon/blog/artist statement/website/whatever. Josh Bartlett was the first recipient, and has been featured on the pygame website in October.  Please see the pygame artist in residence profile page for more info. What has he been up to?  Go to his blog to find out. ps. Thank you to everyone who applied, and those who helped with selection. Hopefully the next one will go more smoothly as the process is improved.

An artist residency usually works something like; a person spends some time in either a gallery making something to present or in a music club doing a weekly spot. Artist in residence. The first "pygame artist in residence" grant will be for a small amount of money (€512). It is for someone who is already doing stuff with pygame or python in their arts practice. There will be a little thumbnail on the website linking towards an artist statement/patreon page/blog or some such. The residency won't be in a physical space. It lasts for a month, from October 1st - November 1st. At the end of the month the website 'exhibition' will take the form of a small update from the artist — in whatever form that takes . If you'd like to apply(or nominate someone) please write something short with a link about the arts practice and how python or pygame is used in it. Email: residency@pygame.org Applications close: September 15th. Announced: October 1s...

Whilst walking around the Afterglow art hack day opening in Berlin, my phone buzzed as I had received a text message.  Opening up my phone I saw this: "Welcome to your new NSA partner network." I immediately had a scary thought.  "Had someone hacked into my phone?" My next thought was "oh, someone is hacking the mobile networks".  "Damn, I forgot to turn my phone off like I usually do before coming to hacker events". My phone didn't have service to either of the networks it usually connects to, so someone was definitely jamming the phone systems. This message was a very impressive piece of tech art indeed.  It made me think, and feel something. We are starting an EU/UK tech online magazine . Want to know when it is released? Email notify me when it's ready Want to be interviewed? Rest your head against the speaker. Part of the art hack day. ...

Play cards. They're like business cards, but take 30 minutes to make five. Also, they are for handing out to people you want to play with, rather than to people you want to do business with. Well it could be used for both... but I think the normal style business card is a bit boring to give to friends. Made some of these the other day. Based on an earlier version I designed a few years ago. They're about the size of a finger, but unfold to show other details (eg, email, website, etc). --

Some decoration for my laptop.

hOur Factory is a Melbourne arts festival of sorts that I'm involved with. Unlike most arts festivals, or parties hOur Factory lets interested people vote, and chose the theme. hOur Factory is an exhibition of arts, a warehouse party, and a film night all held in a big space on March 1st. It will have a gallery opening feel, and then move into performances, and music. Depending on the theme, I might be working on a project with 28 monitors and a whole lot of webcams. The idea is to form them into a sphere like shape, and have the monitors pointing outwards. So it could act as a spherical mirror of sorts. However the possibilities are quite large. It's going to be made from cheap $5 webcams, and recycled monitors that we hope to get for free (since so many people are throwing out their old CRT monitors). I should be using pygame to drive the displays... maybe doing some real time effects on them if there is enough processing power. I already have six CRT monitors, but I w...