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Guest posting on It’s Nice That
This week Stewart will be guest-posting on design blog It’s Nice That. Here’s a brief interview and links to the posts.
Stewart on Core77
Design journal Core77 has just posted an interview with Stewart by designer / writer Lisa Smith. It’s the inaugural piece for a new series called “Starting Out” which profiles designers who have recently struck out on their own.
Stewdio lecture at Apple Store London on Monday
Stewdio Apple
Stewart Smith discusses his graphic design studio, Stewdio.
Monday, 28 June at 19.00
Apple Store London
http://stewdio.org/apple
New Scriptographer Released
The Scriptographer team has just released version 2.8.050 which is compatible with the all new Adobe Illustrator CS5. (And it’s of course also compatible with CS4, CS3, etc.) From the Scriptographer site:
Scriptographer is a scripting plugin for Adobe Illustrator™. It gives the user the possibility to extend Illustrator’s functionality by the use of the JavaScript language. The user is no longer limited to the same tools that are used by most graphic designers around the globe. Scriptographer allows the creation of mouse controlled drawing-tools, effects that modify existing graphics and scripts that create new ones. But Scriptographer is also a webpage on which users can exchange scripts and ideas. Scriptographer gives the tool back into the hand of the user and confronts a closed product with the open source philosophy. If that sounds good to you, download it today.
Ruby-Processing
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 spinning in space. Interested? Then keep on reading this crash course in Ruby-Processing. If you’re really impatient scroll down to “Install Ruby-Processing.”
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.
ZKM Artist in Residence
Stewart is traveling to the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany today as an artist in residence. He’ll be collaborating with ZKM on the development of visual elements for their technology-driven segment of an opera concerning climate change and the Amazon. [ZKM Press Release / Google-English version] The opera will premiere in Munich this May. For more information see the opera’s official website, Amazonas.
Stewdio London
As of today Stewdio has officially moved from New York City to London, traveling five hours into the future to arrive at Greenwich Mean Time. This means we are no longer located on Stewart Avenue in Brooklyn, but at the following address in Hackney, London.
Stewdio
Studio 2A. Unit 10
18-24 Shacklewell Lane
London E8 2EZ
Thank you New York City, both Manhattan and Brooklyn respectively, for hosting Stewdio so graciously. It’s time to continue the adventure elsewhere. We will again offer our services beginning Monday, 18 January 2010. In the meantime please enjoy our 2009 holiday offering, Browser Pong. Of course, many of you already have.
Stewdio Copenhagen
Stewdio has been temporarily relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in preparation for the opening of the Terre Natale (“Native Land”) exhibition this Friday at 8pm. Pictured above is the Terre Natale command center manned by Robert Gerard Pietrusko of Warning Office, Stewart Smith of Stewdio, and Nikolaus Völzow of the ZKM Institute. (Photograph by comrade Jeremy Linzee, formerly of Diller Scofidio + Renfro.) If in Copenhagen join us for the opening on Friday.
From Stewart Smith: Terre Natale, or “Native Land”, is an immersive visualization of human migration data. Our historical focus is primarily from 1990 through today, augmented by occasional older data points or forecasts into the future. Humans migrate for various reasons. Political turmoil may create refugee migrations. Environmental disasters create refugees of a different sort. Some people migrate to wealthier economies sending micro-transactions, or remittances, home to their native land. We have recently crossed a threshold; 50% of humans have migrated from rural areas into cities. As of 2007 one out of every two people is now an urban dweller.
See previous Terre Natale videos: http://stewdio.org/work/terrenatale
Terre Natale: Teaser Glimpses
Currently in Copenhagen… Rendering LandSat data…
Earlier; the immersive rotunda wall under construction.
The exterior of the rotunda wall as seen from our hidden “command center” area. The lowered false ceiling and one of the surround speakers are visible against the backdrop of the Kunsthal Charlottenborg gallery.
Table one of two in the hidden command center.
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