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Processing

Mentioned in 20 editorials, 12 podcast episodes and 36 Timeline moments.

An open-source programming language and environment for visual art, started in 2001 by Casey Reas and Ben Fry at the MIT Media Lab. Built on Java, it made code an everyday studio medium for a generation of artists.

Processing
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I think that a lot of the programming libraries, Processing or p5 or openFrameworks, they all kind of, you decompose a problem analytically and then you reconstruct it.

Tom White, Tom White & Gene Kogan on the Birth of GAN Art

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Mentioned in

157
Ryan Murdock on Hacking AI
September 28, 2026
145
Memo Akten on Rituals as Algorithms
July 13, 2026
104
AA Cavia on Summoning Worlds
October 20, 2025
96
Juan Rodríguez García on Inhabiting the Moment
August 25, 2025
86
Reprogramming Sensory Habits
June 9, 2025
84
Dmitri Cherniak on Strictly for Art
May 26, 2025
58
Casey Reas, Lauren Lee McCarthy & Chandler McWilliams on Expanding Software
August 20, 2024
54
John Maeda on Computational Evolution
July 22, 2024
52
Frieder Nake on “Machinic” Miracles
July 10, 2024
34
Mona Lisa to monogrid
March 6, 2024
30
Lauren Lee McCarthy on Software Values
February 13, 2024
26
Golan Levin on the Potentiality of Blobs
January 10, 2024
25
Tyler Hobbs on Algorithmic Aesthetics
December 12, 2023
24
AGH on Glorifying the Computer
December 5, 2023
21
Ten Moments in South American Generative Art History
November 15, 2023
12
Maya Man on Generative Meaning
September 13, 2023
5
Demystifying Generative Art
July 20, 2023
4
Generations of Verse
July 12, 2023
3
Casey Reas on the History of Generative Art - Part 2
July 5, 2023
1
Casey Reas on the History of Generative Art - Part 1
June 22, 2023
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Podcast mentions

45
AI Psychosis Summit—Macy Gettles, quasimatt and Kevin Esherick with Peter Bauman
July 31, 2026
43
New York Frieze Week—Michael Connor, Regina Harsanyi & Karyn Nakamura with Peter Bauman
May 12, 2026
38
2025 Art in Review with thefunnyguys, Conrad House & Peter Bauman
December 22, 2025
24
Tom White & Gene Kogan on the Birth of GAN Art (Deep Learning Series 01)
April 14, 2025
23
Discussing Digital Art in 1Q 2025
April 1, 2025
14
Timeline Ch 10—On-Chain Era (2020s) with Erick Calderon, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Itzel Yard & Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
September 2, 2024
13
Timeline Ch 9—AI Era (2010s) with Tyler Hobbs, Helena Sarin, Rhea Myers & Gene Kogan
July 30, 2024
11
Timeline Ch 8: Tooling Era (2000s) with Christiane Paul, Casey Reas, Christa Sommerer & Golan Levin
May 15, 2024
10
Timeline Ch 7—Net Era (1990s) with Auriea Harvey, Joshua Davis, LIA, Scott Draves & Vuk Ćosić
April 11, 2024
4
Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt I (1960s) with Dr A Michael Noll
September 7, 2023
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Timeline Ch 1—Pre-Modern Era with Marius Watz
July 6, 2023
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Elevating the Generative Art Space (Launch Episode) with Casey Reas, ciphrd, Anne Spalter, Anika Meier & Georg Bak
June 28, 2023

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Related subjects

creative coding
p5.js
openFrameworks
Java
Aesthetics + Computation Group
open source
Processing Foundation
MIT
C++
MIT Media Lab