Learning art and coding during the Creative Coding Fest at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Photo courtesy of Ellen Nickels and Dominic Barrett
The Processing Foundation and Creative Coding Fest at ITP were profiled on Arts.Gov.
Ben Fry is co-founder of the Processing Foundation, an organization dedicated to making digital art creation accessible to experienced computer coders and technological newbies alike. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate who has crafted award-winning works of visual art using computer programming, Fry began the foundation in 2012 with fellow programmer and digital artist Casey Reas.
The technological core of the foundation is a computer programming language and integrated development environment simply called “Processing,” which Reas and Fry first built in 2001. Unlike other programming languages, Processing is designed to help artists turn their ideas and inspirations into actual images on the screen, while teaching the fundamentals of computer programming at the same time.
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