Introducing p5.plotterControl, a library that enables live control of pen plotter hardware from p5.js github.com/craigfahner/...

we built a tool to traffic private jet emissions during the world cup and other events. it's pretty bad 🤮

Tax Private Jets@taxprivatejets.org · 2w ago

136,000 tons of CO₂ — the cost of flying private jets to this year's World Cup. We enlisted @kcimc.bsky.social to track every flight: Atlanta 2.5× normal, Miami 2×, NYC final already +70%. Billionaires pay less tax to pollute more. Open data + how to act → TaxPrivateJets.org

I have to do a lot of napkin math for interactive installations and just realized i could make a multitool for common things. Welcoming comments! laserpilot.github.io/interactive-... -Monitor placement, LED simulation, projector, sensor, speaker positioning

@laserpilot.bsky.social Blair — I thought you might enjoy <3

Golan Levin@golan.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm thrilled to announce another liberated device: A fully open-source interface to the remarkable Sensel Morph touchpad (2017), featuring OSC, Syphon, and WebSocket transport in both Processing and Python. github.com/CreativeInqu...

@radiatoryang.bsky.social of possible historic interest, see thread

Jason Scott@textfiles.com · last mo.

I could only find one citation so far - this ad in Gay Community News, 1983.

I'm gonna keep a small diary of my reverse engineering work in this thread. Basically, I'm finding obsolete, poorly documented, and/or poorly supported sensing devices, and getting them to produce legible open data for my Creative Coding and Experimental Capture students.

On a reverse-engineering streak, and pleased to present many new additions to my archive of monoline fonts —including 40+ decompiled AutoCAD SHX fonts; the Tektronix 7000-series oscilloscope display fonts; and Glen Kleinschmidt's Fourier Synthesis Character Generator. github.com/golanlevin/p...

This study conducts a Fourier analysis of the wave contours in five paintings by Bridget Riley, in order to estimate the extent and character of their harmonic distortion. github.com/golanlevin/r...

📢Future? No Thanks! DEMO OUT NOW ON STEAM! Try the game for 30 minutes! An ecosocialist open-world utopia for our dark times. For Windows and Mac store.steampowered.com/app/3861870/...

Fun reminder that my popup solo exhibition at the @bantamtools.bsky.social Machine Arts Gallery (Peekskill, NY) continues until June 12! I'm showing several different collections of #plotterArt works examining cells and organic form. Works are for sale online, too. bantamtools.com/collections/...

I've just made a #p5js restoration of "Painting with Interactive Pixels", a 1998 Java app by @dagsvanaes.bsky.social in which each "ink" color has its own behavior. PIP influenced me greatly in '98 — and has not been viewable on the web in 20 years: golanlevin.github.io/pip/index.html

#Opportunity alert! Bay Area creative research center StochasticLabs.org announces its next round of summer residencies in art, technology, and AI, on the theme of "Liveness + Agency": stochasticlabs.org/liveness-age... -- application deadline is May 31.

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Plottimation — my free online software for making GIF #animation from #risograph or #plotterArt frame-sheets — is now in version 1.16 after extensive improvements! golanlevin.github.io/plottimation/

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding

#Opportunity! The £10K Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship is a 6-month, low-residency program supporting individual practitioners and ecosystem development in art and advanced technologies. Application deadline: 7 June 2026. www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/fut...

Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship: Art x Convergence | Serpentine

Serpentine Arts Technologies launches the inaugural Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) R&D Fellowship: Art x Convergence.

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Plottimation, my tool for converting #plotterArt frame-sheets into animated GIFs, is now in version 1.09 after extensive improvements :) golanlevin.github.io/plottimation/

Thrilled to see Dan @makeitdoathing.com has finally opened the glitchwear.store store for his one-of-a-kind, computationally generated, buyer-customized knitwear. I'm delighted to confirm that these are gorgeous and comfortable garments, too.

I'm pleased to announce #Plottimation 1.0, a free online tool for automatically generating animated GIFs from casual photos of #penplotter frame-sheets! Live software: golanlevin.github.io/plottimation/ Source code: github.com/golanlevin/p... Demo video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOXB...

Pleased to announce many excellent new additions to my archive of procedural single-stroke fonts for #p5js and #plotterArt — including ISO-3098; two kanji/hanzi fonts, each with 4K+ glyphs; Licia He's new DearPlotter font; and Jongmin Kim's variable LeonSans stroke font: github.com/golanlevin/p...

A nice writeup about my students' exhibition of #generative #plotter art at the @bantamtools.bsky.social Machine Arts Gallery in Peekskill, New York! art.cmu.edu/news/student...

From Code to Gallery: “Drawing with Machines” Class Exhibits with Bantam Tools - School of Art | Carnegie Mellon University

The exhibition at Bantam Tools’ Machine Arts Gallery marked a new professional milestone for the advanced students of Professor Golan Levin's course on computational drawing.

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#JobAlert! The New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NYC area) is currently conducting a faculty search for an Assistant Professor or Lecturer in Digital Design: njit.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

A new version (v0.1.8) of p5.plotSvg, my #p5.js library for plotter-oriented SVG output, is now out. It includes support for Inkscape layers, and several bug fixes. github.com/golanlevin/p... #plotSvg #creativeCoding #plotterArt

GitHub - golanlevin/p5.plotSvg: A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting.

A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting. - GitHub - golanlevin/p5.plotSvg: A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting.

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Coming soon: an epic announcement in a field so arcane, inconsequential, and niche it barely qualifies as a field. #vintageStickFonts

In Peekskill this Friday, 1/9? Please join me and my Drawing with Machines students for the opening of our exhibition at the @bantamtools.bsky.social Machine Arts Gallery! We'll be showing scores of generative artworks created with pen-plotters, p5.js, and much more! www.instagram.com/p/DTGWAUlkS8Q/

🧵 A sad case of reality catching up with satire: back in 2005 I built a website that let people "bet" on where the next terrorist attack would take place. It was basically a proto-Polymarket. Mainstream media HATED IT, even as they engaged in the same kind of terror-mongering predictions…

Jmail is incredible! A great way to browse Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, photos, flights, files, and properties via a neat, Google-like interface. www.jmail.world

#JobAlert! The Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at the University of Nebraska (Lincoln) has announced a search for four new tenure-track faculty in storytelling, animation, UX/UI, and film: arts.unl.edu/carson-cente...

#JobAlert! Assistant/Associate Professor in the Arts and Unconventional Computing, in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...