rethread-studio/algorithmic-art-course

data-driven algoritmic art

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principles, tools and inspirations for algorithmic art using data

command-line JSON processor
https://github.com/jqlang/jq

Serialization framework for Rust
https://github.com/serde-rs/serde

Working with Data and APIs in JavaScript
https://github.com/CodingTrain/Intro-to-Data-APIs-JS

Data as spectacle: An introduction to the work of Ryoji Ikeda
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/data-as-spectacle-a-ryoji-ikeda-overview/

Data Art: Processes and Perspectives. SXSW 2023
https://schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP123318

Open data from Quebec, good source of inspiration for a data art piece
https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset?sort=metadata_created+desc
Found through this hackathon
https://hackqc.ca/2024-faq/

A CONCISE TAXONOMY FOR DESCRIBING DATA AS AN ART MATERIAL
https://direct.mit.edu/leon/article-pdf/51/1/75/2008425/leon_a_01414.pdf

A corpus of poetry from Project Gutenberg. The corpus, supplied as a compressed sequence of JSON objects, is especially suited to applications in creative computational poetic text generation (found on Allison Parrish's home page)

https://github.com/aparrish/gutenberg-poetry-corpus

données ouvertes de la ville de Montréal
https://donnees.montreal.ca/

love to explore unconventional ways of visualizing data using creative coding tools and approaches
Each week I will take a published statistic / chart and use its numbers as input parameter for a generative artwork

ISNI is used to uniquely identify persons and organizations involved in creative activities, as well as public personas of both, such as pseudonyms, stage names, record labels or publishing imprint

The ISNI database can be accessed here: https://isni.org/page/data-inputs-and-outputs/

Collections of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec
https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/e42d4c32-3dec-4d73-855f-0fa335006d3d

The 954 most common RGB monitor colors, as defined by several hundred thousand participants in the xkcd color name survey.
https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/