for whom: Rhizome and OpenProcessing

when: summer 2009

where: the artworks are stored on Rhizome’s servers and permanently exposed on the official site

what: during the last part of summer 2009 Rhizome and OpenProcessing organized Tiny Sketch,

…an open challenge to artists and programmers to create the most compelling creative work possible with the programming language Processing using 200 characters or less.

Since the driving idea was that limitations can catalyze creativity, every algorithmic artwork (sketch, for short) had to comply with the following rules:

1. Your sketch code must not exceed 200 characters in length. (Including Spaces)
2. Your sketch must work properly over the internet on a web browser.
3. Your sketch is limited to the core functions of Processing.
4. No external libraries or external files are allowed.

Obviously all the sketches had to be opensource, in order to show both the total number of characters and solutions adopted to fit into the limits.
These are my submissions (click on the thumbnail to run the actual artwork):

	the sky above the port “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” is the first line of W.Gibson’s Neuromancer. That book is probably one of the reasons why I’m entering the Tiny Sketch competition, so here’s my homage in the form of a dead TV channel.
	shall we dance? 200 characters to tell the story of two metaballish thingies dancing together.
	where are you? lights searching in the dark.
	interference in bloom ordered noise with a little moiré effect.
	foam foam is a good medium for rapid prototyping.
	breath asmatic, sinusoidal breathing. just because i realized i never posted a colored entry:)
	materic painting yes, digital materic painting, as weird as it may sound.