An open-source C++ toolkit for creative coding, started in 2005 by Zachary Lieberman with Theo Watson and Arturo Castro. It is widely used for installations and interactive work.
I think 2008 or '09, I went to an openFrameworks lab at Ars Electronica. They were kind enough to have me there. And that's where I learned how to program a little bit in C++.
LIA, 1990s Net Art: Auriea Harvey, Joshua Davis, LIA, Draves
Then I discovered the openFrameworks community and people like Zach Lieberman, Golan Levin, Scott Snibbe. I was already doing stuff on my own in C++ when I discovered that community and that's when everything started to unravel.
Memo Akten, Memo Akten on Rituals as Algorithms