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Creative Coding for Mobile Devises: Building Sensor-Based Android Apps Using Processing
Date: 14th October 2012 (Sunday)
Time: 12:00- 4:00 pm
Venue: Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon
About: The workshop is an introduction to Processing for Android, exploring the creative potential of the hardware features within the current Android Devices.
Workshop instructor, Daniel Sauter will lead participants to create and experiment with a series of sensor-based android apps, such as motion and position sensors, touch screen panel, geolocation and compass, WiFi networking, 3D Scenes and much more, using softwares such as Processing 2.0b, Android SDK, and Ketai Library.
*Basic understanding of programming and access to an Android device is highly recommended.
Workshop Fee: $150 HKD
*Workshop and Seminar are conducted in English and supplemented with Cantonese
RSVP required: info@videotage.org.hk / 2573-1869
Artist Profile:
Daniel Sauter is an artist who creates interactive installations and site-specific interventions dealing with the cultural and social implications of emerging technologies. He is an Associate Professor of New Media Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Design, organizer of the Mobile Processing Conference in Chicago, and author of Rapid Android Development: Build Rich, Sensor-Based Applications with Processing (Pragmatic, 2012).