Awesome Generative Art

Manually curated collection of Generative Art resources, tools and shiny things.

Contents

• Tools
  • Visual programming languages
  • Frameworks, Libraries, Engines, Languages
  • VJing software
  • Codecs
  • Seqensors
  • Sound programming languages
  • Software controllers
  • Other tools
  • Hardware
    • Platforms
    • Controllers
• Learning Resources
  • Books
    • Theory
    • Practice
  • Courses
• Video Channels
• Selected artists
• Communities
• Work
• Events
• Press

Tools

Visual programming languages

• vvvv [Win]
• Touch designer [Mac, Win]
• Max [Mac, Win]
• Pure Data [Mac, Win, Linux]
• Quartz Composer [Mac]
• Vuo [Mac]

Frameworks, libraries, engines, languages

• Processing [Mac, Win, Linux, Android]
• Processing Python Mode [Mac, Win, Linux]
• OpenFrameworks [Mac, Win, Linux, iOS, Android]
• Cinder [Mac, Win, Linux, iOS, Android]
• three.js [Web]
• Paper.js [Web]
• p5.js [Web]
• Scriptographer
• Unity [Mac, Win]
• KodeLife [Mac, Win, Linux]

Vjing software

• VDMX [Mac]
• Resolume [Mac, Win]
• Modul8 [Mac]
• CoGe VJ [Mac]
• MadMapper [Mac]
• Mitti [Mac]
• TouchViZ [iOS]

Codecs

• DXV codec [Mac, Win]
• HAP codec [Mac, Win]

Seqensors

• Vezér [Mac]
• Ableton Live [Mac, Win]
• D3

Sound programming languages

• SuperCollider [Mac, Win, Linux]
• Csound [Mac, Win, Linux, iOS, Android, Web]
• ChucK [Mac, Win, Linux]
• TidalCycles [Mac, Win, Linux]
• Sonic Pi [Mac, Win, Linux, Raspberry Pi]
• Reaktor [Mac, Win]

Software controllers

• TouchOSC [iOS, Android]

Other tools

• Syphon [Mac]
• Spout [Win]

Hardware

Platforms

• Arduino
• Raspberry Pi

Controllers

• Kinect
• Leap Motion

Learning Resources

Books

Theory

• New Media Art [history]
• Art and Electronic Media [history]
• Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art [history]
• Aesthetic Computing [history]
• Internet Art (World of Art) [history]
• Digital Art (World of Art) [history]
• Digital Arts: An Introduction to New Media (Berg New Media Series) [history]
• Art Pocket Digital Art [history]
• The World of Digital Art [history]
• Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture [history]
• 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 [history]
• Code as Creative Medium: A Handbook for Computational Art and Design history]

Practice

• Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with JavaScript in p5.js [algorithms, processing]
• Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers, Second Edition [processing]
• Make: Getting Started with Processing, Second Edition [processing]
• Make: Getting Started with p5.js [p5.js]
• Make: Getting Started with Processing.py [processing.py]
• Learning Processing, Second Edition: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction [processing]
• The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems with Processing [processing]
• Visualizing Data
• The SparkFun Guide to Processing
• Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2
• Processing for Visual Artists: How to Create Expressive Images and Interactive Art [processing]
• Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art (Foundation) [processing]
• The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers [processing]
• Programming Interactivity
• Generative Art: A Practical Guide Using Processing [processing]
• Algorithms for Visual Design Using the Processing Language [processing]
• Data-driven Graphic Design: Creative Coding for Visual Communication
• Making Things Talk: Using Sensors, Networks, and Arduino to see, hear, and feel your world
• Making Things See: 3D vision with Kinect, Processing, Arduino, and MakerBot
• Kinect in Motion - Audio and Visual Tracking by Example [kinect, c#]
• Kinect Hacks: Tips & Tools for Motion and Pattern Detection [kinect, processing, openframeworks]
• Beginning Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0: Motion and Depth Sensing for Natural User Interfaces [kinect]
• Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide [kinect, c#]
• Kinect Open Source Programming Secrets: Hacking the Kinect with OpenNI, NITE, and Java [kinect]
• Human Gait Recognition Using Body Measures and Joints Angles: A Study Using Microsoft Kinect [kinect]
• Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK (Expert's Voice in Microsoft) [kinect]
• Arduino and Kinect Projects: Design, Build, Blow Their Minds (Technology in Action) [kinect, arduino]
• Programming with the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (Developer Reference) [kinect, c#]
• Augmented Reality with Kinect [kinect, ar]
• Meet the Kinect: An Introduction to Programming Natural User Interfaces (Technology in Action) [kinect]
• Hacking the Kinect (Technology in Action) [kinect]
• Learning Quartz Composer: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Motion Graphics with Quartz Composer [quartz composer]
• Rapid Android Development: Build Rich, Sensor-Based Applications with Processing
• Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook [processing]
• Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot [processing]
• Getting Started with Arduino: The Open Source Electronics Prototyping Platform (Make)
• Building Wireless Sensor Networks: with ZigBee, XBee, Arduino, and Processing
• Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers
• Analog In, Digital Out: Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design
• Einführung ins Programmieren mit Processing (De)
• Processing - eine Einführung in die Programmierung (De)
• Programming for Artists (Ru) FREE
• The Book of Shaders by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and Jen Lowe
• Prototyping Interfaces: Interaktives Skizzieren mit vvvv [vvvv]
• Generative Deep Learning: Teaching Machines to Paint, Write, Compose, and Play [ml, gan]
• GANs in Action: Deep learning with Generative Adversarial Networks [ml, gan]
• Generative AI with Python and TensorFlow 2: Create images, text, and music with VAEs, GANs, LSTMs, Transformer models [ml, gan]
• Hands-On Image Generation with TensorFlow: A practical guide to generating images and videos using deep learning [ml, gan]
• Generative Art: Algorithms as Artistic Tool (Art & Artists)
• Coding Art: The Four Steps to Creative Programming with the Processing Language (Design Thinking) [processing]

Courses

• Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps
• Interactive Data Visualization with Processing
• Projects for Interactive Data Visualization with Processing
• openFrameworks Tutorial Series
• The Arduino Platform and C Programming
• Interfacing with the Raspberry Pi
• Getting started with Augmented Reality
• Creative Coding
• Survey of Music Technology
• Learn to Code Electronic Music Tools with Javascript
• Machine Learning for Musicians and Artists [ml]
• Machine Learning for Artists [ml]
• Creative Applications of Deep Learning with TensorFlow [ml]
• Advanced JS: Natural Simulations
• Pixar in a Box - Effects
• Programming MAX: Structuring Interactive Software for Digital Arts
• inconvergent · A Study of Generative Algorithms
• Building a Real Application With Kinect [kinect]
• Kinect Interaction with WPF and Beyond [kinect]
• Developing for Leap Motion in C# [leap motion]
• Physics-Based Sound Synthesis for Games and Interactive Systems [audio, chuck]
• Sound Synthesis Using Reaktor [audio, reaktor]
• The Nature of Code [p5.js]
• Introduction to Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists [audio, chuck]
• Introduction to Programming for the Visual Arts with p5.js [p5.js]
• The Arduino Platform and C Programming [arduino]
• Interfacing with the Arduino [arduino]
• 3D Models for Virtual Reality [vr, unity]
• Games, Sensors and Media [ios]
• How Virtual Reality (VR) Works [vr]
• Interactive 3D Graphics [3d, webgl, three.js]

Websites

• Creative Applications Network
• OpenProcessing
• Create Digital Music/Motion
• Field
• Lumen

Selected artists

• Featured / United Visual Artists
• Anton Marini aka vade
• Robert Hodgin aka flight404
• Antivj
• onformative

Communities

• Generative Art Slack

Video Channels

• The Coding Train by Daniel Shiffman
• AUDIO-VISUAL PERFORMANCE
• LeCollagiste VJ group on Vimeo
• TouchDesigner group on Vimeo
• Processing group on Vimeo
• MadMapper group on Vimeo
• Syphon group on Vimeo

Work

• Job board on creativeapplications.net
• vj booking

Events

• OFFF
• Resonate Festival
• The Gray Area Festival
• FIBER Festival
• Mapping Festival
• Eyeo Festival
• NODE
• MUTEK
• Live Performers Meeting
• Berlin Atonal
• Ars Electronica
• Signal Festival
• La Fête des Lumières

Press

• HOLO magazine
• Make magazine
• The MagPi magazine

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