A group of participants smile and make a p5 sign with their hands.
A group of approximately 30 participants gathered spent a week at the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, advancing the code, documentation, and community outreach tools of the p5.js programming environment. Participants came from as far away as Hong Kong, Seattle, Los Angeles, Boston and New York. Most were working professionals in the fields of creative technology, interaction design, and new-media arts, but the group also included a half-dozen undergraduate and graduate students from Carnegie Mellon’s Schools of Art and Architecture.
A group of participants smile and make a p5 sign with their hands
Woman presenting the p5.js community statement from her laptop
Woman expressively speaks into a microphone while two male collaborators look on
Participants attentively smile and listen to a presentation
Woman reads about p5.js into a microphone to three female students
Participants sit in a circle around a white board with sticky notes on it while a female student speaks into a microphone
Participants sit around a table looking at each others laptops and compare code
Whiteboard with different colored sticky and written notes about programming
Woman speaking into a microphone about valuing different skill sets while a group of participants with laptops look at her powerpoint in a classroom
Woman speaks at a podium in an auditorium while three participants sit on the stage and another three are skyping in on the stage screen
Overhead view of a classroom with participants working on their laptops
Five people having a discussion in a circle
Five people in a circle with their laptops sharing their notes
Man in a classroom with a microphone speaking out to a group of participants
Participants jump, smile and throw their hands in the air on a green lawn
Participants
Jason Alderman, Sepand Ansari, Tega Brain, Emily Chen, Andres Colubri, Luca Damasco, Guy de Bree, Christine de Carteret, Xy Feng, Sarah Groff-Palermo, Chris Hallberg, Val Head, Johanna Hedva, Kate Hollenbach, Jennifer Jacobs, Epic Jefferson, Michelle Partogi, Sam Lavigne, Golan Levin, Cici Liu, Maya Man, Lauren McCarthy, David Newbury, Paolo Pedercini, Luisa Pereira, Miles Peyton, Caroline Record, Berenger Recoules, Stephanie Pi, Jason Sigal, Kevin Siwoff, Charlotte Stiles
Diversity
Alongside technical development, one of the main focuses of this conference was outreach, community, and diversity. The conference began with a panel—Diversity: Seven Voices on Race, Gender, Ability & Class for FLOSS and the Internet. Organized by Johanna Hedva and Lauren McCarthy, the panel took place Tuesday, 25 May 2015 in Kresge Auditorium at Carnegie Mellon University. Speakers included Maya Man, Casey Reas, Johanna Hedva, Stephanie Pi, Phoenix Perry, Taeyoon Choi, Sara Hendren, Epic Jefferson, and Chandler McWilliams.
A poster about diversity for FLOSS and the Internet
Support
Our contributor conference took place at the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, an academic laboratory for atypical, anti-disciplinary, and inter-institutional research at the intersections of arts, science, technology, and culture.
This event was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and generous support from the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Processing Foundation, TheArtificial, Bocoup, Darius Kazemi, and [Emergent Digital Practices | University of Denver]
Thank you!
