Recently, I was interviewed by a good friend Tim Stutts about OpenProcessing, its origins, collaboration with Rhizome on the Tiny Sketch competition and its future. Below is a first couple of paragraphs; read the full article on Rhizome’s site:
Interview with Sinan Ascioglu: OpenProcessing Architect
OpenProcessing.org is a site that has built a community around sharing visual coding examples created in Processing. As user number 36, I had the unique privilege of watching the idea take shape, while in a thesis group with Sinan at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. During it’s first two years of activity, the site has grown to host thousands of user-generated sketches and subsequent conversations between artists / programmers, teachers, and students from around the world. Sinan and I escaped the snow recently at a café outside Washington Square Park ....
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Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is an open project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. It can be downloaded from 






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