When I lived in Minneapolis, I had the opportunity to see "Nik Turner's Hawkwind" before he was forbidden by the courts to use the name "Hawkwind". T'was an amazing show! Around the same time, I also saw Television, which was also amazing and then I saw King Krimson with Adrian Belew and I was thoroughly disappointed and have hated him ever since.
I think teaching something like knitting alongside programming is interesting in a particular way. It exercises algorithmic thinking. But I think having students read Kandinsky's "Point and Line to Plane" while learning about points, lines and 2d shapes serves a very different purpose. Kandinsky's writing is more of a manifesto than a treatise. It represents the train-of-thought process of an artist discovering something on his own terms. It's pretty much the opposite of what they'll be learning in programming but, at the same time, encourages them to think like artists. Anyway, that's my reasoning. The title of the course is "Programming for Visual Artists". I've just ordered an Arturia Microbrute. More analog synth experiments to follow.... On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:43 PM John Hopkins <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/Jan/16 19:36, Pall Thayer wrote: > > I was going to see Hawkwind at the Gramercy Theater but it was cancelled > > due to "health issues". Now I´m considering getting tickets to see Gary > > Hah, that would have been a nice show -- I played 'Spirit of the Age" on my > first ever radio gig in early 1977 on the Denver 'rock' station KAZY when > the > Quark, Strangeness, & Charm album had just come out -- I was a > wet-behind-the > -ears engineering student ... hope those old rockers are okay! > > Your Moog piece was appropriately retro! ;-) > > Good idea on the Kandinsky text -- you know Juha Huuskonen from Helsinki - > I was > always impressed when he told me that he was having his programming > students > learn knitting at the UIAH Media Lab... > > Oh, and a head's up to the rest of the list -- I'm going to be doing a > live/online sonic improv performance this coming Saturday 16 January as > part of > this year's global Art's Birthday party -- for details, see: > > http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/79869 > > We'll be on IRC freenode -- chat.freenode.net #artsbirthday for > back-channel > chatting... > > Cheers all, > > JH > > -- > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD > grounded on a granite batholith > twitter: @neoscenes > http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- P Thayer, Artist http://pallthayer.dyndns.org
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