Creative Coding
All About Creative Coding.
When I think about Creative Coding… I actually don’t know what to think. I don’t know where to start other than Google. This is a term that has only recently entered my sphere of thought and I still don’t really understand it. It was actually a hashtag on a TikTok video that I came across a couple of months ago that introduced me to the medium.. (is it considered a medium?).
But without going to google, this is my understanding..
creative coding is coding.. but artistically?
What are the possibilities of coding? I don’t know. But I now know through a few of my peer’s One Thing presentation, coding can go past the computer screen to create interactive experiences.
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Before coming across this particular video, my understanding of coding was pretty narrow (still is) but this video sparked an interest that I can’t ignore.
I hope that my time here at IMA Low Res will allow me to learn how to code interactive experiences such as the one featured in this video. I’m really inspired by interactive installation projects that create physical and tangible experiences.
what do you hope to get out of this course, especially in the age of emerging AI tools to write code for us? What skills are important for you to learn at the beginning of your Low Res journey?
In this amazing emerging age of AI, I still believe it’s important for me to understand the fundamental concepts of what I am doing. Outside of our pre-work assignment videos, I have zero experience with code. Though AI is an amazing tool, it would serve as a disadvantage for me because I wouldn’t know what to input into chatGPT or to correct/detect what is inaccurate in the code.
As it relates to using AI as a tool, I want to be able to use it as a complementary tool not the primary tool. Metaphorically speaking, this is how I view it.
Imagine you’re in kindergarten and you’re learning math for the very first time. You don’t understand anything that you’re learning and you go to your parents for help rather than a tutor. As a kindergartner you don’t know how to voice what you don’t understand, and your parents (wanting you to pass the class) just give you the answer. You didn’t learn anything but you have the right answer.
I don’t want that.
I want the tutor. The tutor that will help me understand and open up my mind to think differently and to understand more. I want to be able to ask the questions that I don’t know how to voice yet. Though convenience is great, a paint brush can’t paint the vision that lies in the artist’s mind. I want to be the artist that uses AI as a paint brush.
What are the benefits to finding code online? Any downsides?
I think finding code online is cool, and gives you a reference point to create and learn from. I don’t think that the codes found should be copied without attribution, but I think that it’s okay to take and create from what has already been created.
I personally want to find code online that also thoroughly explains what’s going on, so that I understand what is happening and how the code worked together to produce the creation I originally didn’t understand how to do on my own.
