Technique

Flash

Mentioned in 6 editorials, 6 podcast episodes and 9 Timeline moments.

Macromedia's (later Adobe's) animation software and browser plug-in, released in 1996. It defined interactive web art and design in the early 2000s; support ended in 2020.

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Quotes

Personally, Flash was such an important gateway for learning creative coding. There was this web zine called K10k and every week they would have a different artist take over.

Zach Lieberman, Zach Lieberman on the Resonance of Generative Art

I mean, we talk all the time about Flash ActionScript and how many amazing pieces used to be created through Flash. And now many of those pieces can never be run again because there's no support for it on any browser.

Conrad House, One Year of Le Random

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Mentioned in

Memo Akten on Rituals as Algorithms

Rafaël Rozendaal on a Liquid Canvas

January 21, 2025

Demystifying Generative Aesthetics

Golan Levin on the Potentiality of Blobs

January 10, 2024

Zach Lieberman on the Resonance of Generative Art

Casey Reas on the History of Generative Art - Part 2

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Podcast mentions

Digital Curators Series 03—Val Ravaglia on Displaying the Digital

February 4, 2025

Digital Curators Series 02—Regina Harsanyi & Jon Ippolito on Preserving the Digital

November 4, 2024

Digital Curators Series 01—Douglas Dodds on Collecting and Valuing Emerging Technologies

September 30, 2024

Timeline Ch 8: Tooling Era (2000s) with Christiane Paul, Casey Reas, Christa Sommerer & Golan Levin

Timeline Ch 7—Net Era (1990s) with Auriea Harvey, Joshua Davis, LIA, Scott Draves & Vuk Ćosić

One Year of Le Random

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