I’m scheduled to give a book review on Matt Pearson’s Generative Art book at the next Boston Artist + Coders event. Here’s the preso:

As while back after #eyeofestival, some folks decided to start a new “Artist & Coders” group. Well, after month or two, the 1st meeting is finally happening this week in Boston.

Welcome, EyeO Recap + Show & Tell
Thursday, August 11, 2011, 7:00 PM
Bocoup Loft

For the first meet up we will do some introductions and have a quick recap and presentation of a few cool projects from the EyeO Festival for those who missed it and those who want to reminisce.

We will then have a show & tell time for anyone working on projects they want to share (keeping our fingers crossed that our MakerBot 3D printer will have arrived and be there to demo).

We’ll have access to a projector and screen so bring anything else you might want to share.

We can then explore some ideas for future presentations and meet ups.

Bocoup Loft is hosting the event and is a fantastic space that’s a quick walk across the bridge from the South Station T stop.

I hope to be at this 1st meeting. I’ll be speaking about my recent R&D with several interactive tools & technologies. I’ll also share some makerbot experiences if people are interested.

On July 21, 2001 in NYC, there’s a Demo Day being put on that covers a gamut of interactive technologies and topics.

Presented by The Creators Project in collaboration with Eyebeam Art & Technology Center. Attendees will also be able to visit Eyebeam’s summer exhibition, Biorhythm: Music and the Body, curated by Science Gallery and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Glimpse the varied and inspired work being produced by today’s creative technologists in this series of short talks and project demos from leading artists and designers.

They’ll showcase new work created using an assortment of tools that help facilitate innovative arts experiences, such as: openFrameworks, Processing, Arduino, Augmented Reality/Mobile, Cinder, and Max/MSP.

Schedule:
7:00pm – Doors Open
7:15pm – Talks begin, 10 min each
8:30-10:00pm – Socializing over drinks

Speakers:
• Theo Watson – OpenFrameworks
• Jer Thorp – Processing
• Kyle McDonald – Kinect/3D scanning
• Kaho Abe – Arduino
• Manifest.AR – Augemented Reality / Mobile
• Doug Pfeffer, The Barbarian Group – Cinder
• Luke Dubois – Max/MSP

Looks like it’s wait listed right now, capped at 120 people.

Next week, is reportedly the 1st ever “robot film festival” in NYC put on by Heather Knight and creator of keepon – beatbots, marek michalowski.

Here are some quotes from the cnet article from @heatherknight:

“Our goal with the film festival and the expanding community that we’re building around it is to explore modern relationships between mankind, technology and nature,” Knight said in a release.

“The films include stories about real and fictional robots, depicting interactions between robots, nature and society. They’re created with consideration of overall entertainment value, inspiration of future technologies, creativity and robot design.”

Here’s an example of what you might expect to see:

Read more and/or register for it.

Looks like there’s a new online training game in town and it’s called “codelesson”.

I haven’t done any (yet), but occasionally, if I don’t have time to invest into reading about a topic (i.e. WordPress plugins), I’ll do an online training video to fill the gap.

There appears to be a free etsy course right now, which might be neat to sign up to see what codelesson has to offer (and of course the ETSY API).