Pages
This is a collection of pages, classes, workshops, tutorials, presentations, workshops, and other resources I've developed. Most of my work feature lots of notes and are creative commons licensed for reuse with attribution.
Sitemap
- Project pages
- Now - What am I working on right now?
- Info about me, contact info and newsletter.
- + (pages), a list of the extended pages of this site. You are here.
- Nosebook (blog) where I write posts, articles and tutorials.
- Log, running short notes of ongoing work on my projects, often technical.
- Feed - RSS Feed for the Nosebook blog
- Links elsewhere on the internet.
- Flow page with playlists and music to accompany writing and working.
- Everyday, a behind-the-scenes place for me to prototype projects. My digital studio.
School and classes
- My faculty page at Purchase
- purch.us - My Purchase College short-url redirectory
- Programming Games
- Drawing, Moving and Seeing with Code
- Programming for Visual Artists
- Special Projects in Tiny Computing
- Scripting for the Web
- Social Software
- Creating User Interfaces
Workshops and Presentations
I also coordinated the Babycastles Academy workshops, so check out the tutorials and linked videos there as well.
- Podcasting 101 Workshop - notes for a 1-day workshop for students at Purchase College in Film and Media Studies - Nov 2024.
- WordHack Artist Talk and Cowsay Presentation Systems - My artist talk and cowsay-based command line presentation system built for presenting at WordHack, September 2024.
- Artist Talk - for NYU ITP, The Coding Lab, 2024.
- Controlled and Uncontrolled Chaos - NYU Tisch Collaborative Arts, 2024.
- Walking Simulators, Memory Palaces, and Public Exhibitions - College Art Association (CAA) panel: 3D Worldbuilding: Contexts, Narratives and Pedagogies, 2024.
- Strategic Preservation of Online Communities - ISEA workshop, 2023.
- Building a Mental Model of AI in the Classroom - Purchase College, Spring Faculty Colloquium II. Conversations about Artificial Intelligence, 2023.
- Artist talk - SAIC Art and Technology Studies, 2023.
- DIY Approaches to Preserving DIY Communities Online - New Media Writing Prize, Bournemouth University, with Elecronic Literature Organization and British Library, 2023.
- Artist talk - St. Mary's College of Maryland, 2022.
- Where Does the Art Happen? - Harvestworks 'Conflict / Resolution' Artist Talk, 2022.
- Fantasy Filing Systems: Interactive Narratives of the OS - Presentation for Narrascope 2022.
- Web World and Cooperative Computing - ARoS Art Museum, with Code&Share[], Aarhus, Denmark, 2022.
- Open Source Artist Tools, 2021.
- A Friendly Approach to Writing Proposals and Grants - Babycastles Academy workshop. Babycastles, NYC, 2021.
- Xzone and Virtual Autonomous Zones, 2020.
- Processing Community Day NYC conference I co-organized in 2019 - 2020.
- One Dimensional Dungeons talk at Roguelike Celebration 2020.
- Creative Tool Microcommunities - Eyeo Festival. Minneapolis, 2019.
- Play A Story - Narrative and Videogames - UCLA Design Media Arts Summer Institute, 2017.
- Radical DIY Computing workshop co-organized with Echo Theohar, 2017.
- Divination and Chance Operation workshop taught at ITP Camp, June 2018.
- Intro to Twine and Choose Your Own Adventure Games taught at ITP Camp, June 2018
Tutorials
- Generating Text with Tracery for a Website, 2025.
- Processing to Love - A tutorial for those with experience in Processing/p5.js to get started with the Love2d game framework, 2021 - 2024.
- Explorations in Tiny BASIC, 2022.
- Fish Scripting, 2022.
- Git for Artists and Misfits, 2020.
- Setting up a Raspberry Pi slideshow, Nov 2014.
- Creative Coding on the Command Line - An abandoned attempt at writing an instructional book for artists interested in coding, perhaps with some previous experience in Processing or p5.js. Many chapter stubs were written. 2016.
Devlogs and errata
- Log ongoing detailed reports of my progress on art and code projects.
- Everyday - Mini-site for back-of-house studio tests in creative coding, website design, project prototyping, etc.
- Puzzlescript Studies - Experiments and Creative Coding in Puzzlescript.
- Awesome Puzzlescript list of resources for working with the Puzzlescript game engine.
- December Adventure 2024 - Devlog for working projects for the month of December.
- Noisevember 2022 log - Notes taken daily while working on scripting in Monome Forth for the Teletype module on modular synth.
- Artstuff.wtf - A now-expired website dedicated to sharing cool public art, music and cultural events around Los Angeles. Active 2016 - 2018.
- Info and Archive of "Jsun" Adrian McCarty's projects 2016.
Selected Software and Website Projects
- Archiving Artist-Run Spaces - project to preserve the online activities of DIY and artist-run communities in the era of born-digital media, providing tools, models for preservation and partnerships.
- Random Walk - Online magazine of computational art.
- Gas Gallery Archive - Archive site for Gas gallery.
- Experimental Archive Space - Archive project for Space 1026.
- Bookmobile - downloads articles in readability mode for offline viewing as simple HTML, themed html, epub or markdown.
- Panblog - a simple, minimal bash and pandoc-based static site generator.
- Pomodoro Timer - for the Pico-8 fantasy console.
- LoremSoft - A custom Lorem Ipsum page with hand-crafted and generated shareware-style descriptions.
- p5-flatgame - a flatgame template in p5.js
Misc
- Room 21 - a musical performance project I curated, by composer Jace Clayton, at The Barnes Foundation, presented as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, in 2016. Original site by Random Embassy, ported by me to static html, css.
- Time Capsule - An ambitious (and perhaps naive) attempt at coaching students to build a series of 10-year time capsules on the web (see prompt). With Kelsey Elder.
- ExquisiteCorp music systems.