Dear all,

the Victoria and Albert Museum London in collaboration with onedotzero will launch its new major exhibition next week, titled Decode: Digital Design Sensations. The show will run from Dec 8, 2009 until April 11, 2010 and highlight code based artworks in the fields of interaction, networks and code as material. Several people from the Processing community & this forum will be part of the show (Casey Reas, Marius Watz, Aaron Koblin, Robert Hodgin to name a few) - you can find more information on the exhibition website: http://www.vam.ac.uk/decode/

As part of the exhibition's marketing campaign the museum has commissioned me to create a generative identity for the exhibition and provide it as open source. The public is invited to remix & recode the original piece and submit it back to the V&A for it to be shown on the cross-track HD projectors throughout London Underground early next year. There is a panel of judges deciding about which recoded versions will get the honour, again, you can find all the details on their website.

The actual identity application was written in Processing (with the help of toxiclibs & controlP5) and allows you to export assets and change most visual aspects via its user interface and the config file.

http://decode.googlecode.com/

The project is hosted at Google Code and includes a detailed user guide & development notes. The source code itself is well commented too, so you should have an easy game to get involved.



Some more project/process information is over here:
http://pspctclr.com/decode

went today.

recognised a few of the names on the pieces from the various boards and flickr groups, which was nice.

beware if you go that it is a paid exhibit (but only a fiver and worth it imo, although maybe a bit short) and that there are other pieces in other places around the museum (and in the science museum down the road a bit). i only found this out when i got back home so i'm going to have to make another trip. oh, and the projection on the hoardings outside isn't on in the daylight.

(and go see the netsuke in the japanese bit.)

great exhibition, also love the V & A, definatlely one of the better museums in London. If you head along to the exhibition the cafe there also does some of the best coffee in London also. Enjoy!