Real-time work that responds to audience movement and input.
A collection of musical toys to play in the browser. Musical Spirograph turns a spirograph into musical patterns; others include pendulum waves, Polyrhythm with its polygons, Cellular Sequencer built on the Game of Life, and Wave Drawer for drawing a waveform and hearing it — many let you see and hear a mathematical mechanism at work.
A Linz, Austria–based institution exploring art, technology and society. It comprises a festival, the Prix Ars Electronica competition, a museum (the Center) and the Futurelab R&D unit.
A cultural facility in Tokyo Opera City Tower, Hatsudai, Tokyo. Since opening in 1997 it has presented exhibitions and an archive on the dialogue between science, technology and the arts.
An open-source C++ toolkit for creative coding. It handles graphics, video, sound and sensor input, and is used to build large installations and performances.
A JavaScript library that brings the Processing approach to the web browser. It is designed to be accessible to artists, designers, educators and beginners, with an extensive reference and examples.
A flexible software sketchbook and language for learning to code within the visual arts. Started in 2001 by Casey Reas and Ben Fry and now stewarded by the Processing Foundation, it remains a classic entry point to generative art.
A Tokyo-based creative team including Daito Manabe. It uses data, sensing and robotics to create media artworks and to stage live performances.
A Japanese art collective of artists, programmers, engineers, mathematicians and architects. It creates immersive digital installations that respond to visitors, shown in Japan and around the world.
A node-based visual programming environment developed by Derivative in Toronto. It is widely used for real-time visuals, projection and sensor-driven interactive work.
An arts centre in Yamaguchi, Japan, opened in 2003. Its in-house R&D team, YCAM InterLab, works with artists to develop and present works using media technology.
A cultural institution for art and media in Karlsruhe, Germany. It combines exhibition, collection, research and production of media art, and has staged major exhibitions on art, science and technology.