Monday. 22 March 2010. 20:00 UTC
Are you on a Mac? Ten minutes from now you will be running your first Ruby-Processing animation, mesmerized by a color shifting 3D cube rotating in space. It’s easy.
What is Ruby?
Ruby is a fairly young programming language, conceived in 1993 and first publicly released in 1995. It was created by Japanese programmer
Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto. And if you’re running OS X you already have Ruby installed. Yup, it’s already there waiting for you. For more historical info see
“Ruby (Programming Language)” on Wikipedia. Ruby gained significant popularity with the rise of
Ruby on Rails. (Rails is a web application framework written in Ruby.) In fact, web searches for things having to do with Ruby will usually land you on a page that’s specifically discussing the Rails framework. But Ruby is good for more than just building Web sites. We’re about to make a spinning cube with it, right there on your Desktop!
More after the jump…
Friday. 19 November 2010. 00:00 UTC
Under Vine, the latest collaboration between Robert Gerard Pietrusko of
Warning Office and Stewart Smith of
Stewdio will premiere this evening at the
VIP opening of SFMOMA’s autumn 2010 exhibition
How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now. Read more about this data visualization piece
here.
Thursday. 23 December 2010. 10:00 UTC
According to
SFMOMA curator Harry Urbeck, our new data piece—titled
Under Vine—has greeted over 50,000 museum visitors since the new exhibition
How Wine Became Modern opened a month ago. Physical visitor numbers can seem strange in our cultural bubble dominated by web visitors. (For example,
Browser Pong reached 50,000 unique visitors within just twelve hours of posting the
URL.) We are very pleased with the physical foot traffic and wish everyone the happiest of holidays.
Tuesday. 05 April 2011. 10:00 UTC
It’s that time again. Stewart is currently at the
Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in
Karlsruhe, Germany working with
Bernd Lintermann, head of the
Institute for Visual Media, and the ever-sharp
Global Art and the Museum team. (Bobby will return to
ZKM in June.) The result of this collaboration will be an immersive data animation of the art market—a strange and sometimes illogical economy of artists, curators, biennales, fairs, auction houses, and collectors—on display as part of the
The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 exhibition opening this September. But for now, it’s springtime. Trees. Leaves. Rain. Breezes. Sunshine. Bunnies. Storyboards.
SQL. OpenGL. And so on. Unrelated: Seventeen years ago today there was an unhappy kid in Seattle. And then there wasn’t. How time passes.
Friday. 16 September 2011. 16:00 UTC
Our new collaboration with
Robert Gerard Piertrusko and
Bernd Lintermann premieres today at the opening reception for
The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
trans_actions is a panoramic data visualization that illustrates the dramatic increase in the number of biennales of contemporary art and the rapid expansion of the art market following the end of the cold war. Visitors enter a large panoramic projection room bathed in animated data representing artists, curators, biennales, and market fluctuations. (Panoramic video projection, 8192 × 1024 at 25 fps. Approximate running time twenty-five minutes.) Click here to view the
trans_actions project page.