Push the limits of creativity by using code to generate new forms and by thinking in terms of multi-media and interactivity. 

For many years, artists and designers have developed their own computational tools to further explore the world of digital creation. Many disciplines have emerged from this work – e.g., generative art, parametric design and mapping – and the field continues to evolve with the recent, and more controversial, arrival of NFTs and image generators such as Disco Diffusion and Dall-E. However, the main ingredient of these approaches, i.e., programming, remains a mystery for many, despite myriad tutorials that can be found online.

This course offers an introduction to the basic techniques of creative coding. Drawing on the history of generative art, we will build elementary forms that will gradually be assembled into complex and evolving paintings. Through concrete and progressive exercises, participants will understand the basic logic and syntax of a programme and learn how to use it to generate a poster, an image, a book, a video installation or a scalable website.

Target audience
This course is primarily aimed at people who are familiar with the fields of art and/or design and who wish to strengthen their professional integration in fields related to emerging technologies. 

Targeted skills
This course aims above all to provide professionals from the worlds of art, design and architecture with access to artistic programming. It also opens the way to “data visualisation” through which various types of data, e.g., scientific, can be transformed into visual forms. Whatever the final field of expression, the idea is to tone down the use of new technologies and to divert them from a purely utilitarian use in order to exploit their creative potential. Computer scientists, for their part, will benefit from these historical and methodological approaches from the worlds of art and design in order to better understand how a machine constructs an image.
- Knowledge of the creative coding approach.
- Knowledge of key works in the history of art and generative design.
- Good knowledge of the basics of artistic programming through tools and languages such as Processing.
- Ability to create a generative form through a painting, a web page, a poster or a book.

Prerequisites
No technical skills are required other than basic computer skills (word processing, file management, etc.).

Teaching methods
Historical courses, technical training, experimentation sessions, project monitoring

Certification
Certificate of Continuing Education 

Credits
2 ECTS credits

Practical information
From November 3, 2023 until November 25, 2023
Languages: French/English
Course format: courses and workshops
Fee: CHF 1,200/HEAD – Genève alumni CHF 900
Location:  Campus HEAD, Building H, Room H – 4.01, Av. de Châtelaine 7, 1203 Geneva

Information and registration/admission
Contact: fc.head@hesge.ch 
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