Torn at the seams: vernacular approaches to teaching with computational tools

2021

Editor's note: An article I’ve referenced with collaborators over the years. I use and love Processing languages and find it important to think through an informed critique, and find this to pose great points (that I can respond to!).

A critique of Processing, support for imagemagick, and a history of teaching art and computation

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This article is no longer posted publicly at its original link and I could not find it online anywhere, so I’ve taken the Wayback Machine’s archive not of the printed PDF but rather the website’s article as printable pages, and re-posted here.

Article from Vernaculars come to matter, edited by Cristina Cochior, Julie Boschat-Thorez and Manetta Berends with contributions of Clara Balaguer, Cengiz Mengüç, Ren Loren Britton, Rosemary Grennan, Michael Murtaugh.

Published by: Everyday Technology Press

Editors: Cristina Cochior, Julie Boschat-Thorez, Manetta Berends
Contributors: Clara Balaguer, Cengiz Mengüç, Ren Loren Britton, Rosemary Grennan, Michael Murtaugh
Copyediting: Cannach McBride
Design: Marianne Plano

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