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Vibes from the Desert / Processing
Vesna Dragojlov, Serbia / USA, Kyle Jenkins, USA

10.00 / FTS / Monday - Wednesday / 25th – 27th June 2012

Algorithmic Art, lecture by Vesna Dragojlov, Serbia / USA
17.00 / CCNS, “Tribina mladih” Club / Thursday / 28th June 2012

Coding Expressive Digital Media with Processing
Interested in combining your creative potential and software technologies? This workshop introduces a simple programming open source language, Processing, that was created by an artist and now used by media artists, designers and programmers worldwide. This three days long workshop will teach you to the basics of Processing that will allow you to generate animation, create interactions, and export the results for web, print and mobile.


VESNA DRAGOJLOV, Associate Professor
University of Advancing Technology, Arizona (USA)
Digital Media
Human Computer Interaction
Algorithmic Art

Vesna Dragojlov graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad (English Language and Literature), and received her Master’s Degree from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade (Linguistics). She continued her education at the University of Denver, USA, first doing a graduate program (Art History, 1996-1997) and then Master program (Digital Media, 2002). Her teaching career started at the Department of English Language and Literature of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad. In the USA, she was active within several universities before earning a title of Associate Professor at the University of Advancing Technology in Arizona in 2007, where she is active in three departments: Multimedia Department, Web and Social Media Department and Human Computer Interaction Department, teaching various courses in the field of multimedia/graphic design and art, both onsite and online. Since 2009, Vesna Dragojlov has been involved in the ‘Program Champion’ and a member of the University of Advancing Technology Advisory Board. In 2007, within a program of Austrian WUS, she was a guest lecturer at the University of Novi Sad, giving lectures in cyberfeminism to the students of Gender Studies.

Vesna Dragojlović took part in a number of international conferences and art festivals, in the field of art, science and technology. She has received several important awards, among which the Faculty Innovation Award for innovations in teaching and designing curriculum of the University of Advancing Technology, which she was awarded in 2010 and 2011, deserve a special mention.

KYLE JENKINS, Graduate student
University of Advancing Technology, Arizona (USA)
Virtual Modeling and 3D Design
Algorithmic Art

In 2010 he graduated from The University of Advancing Technology with a degree in Virtual Modeling and Design and is now studying software application development. Kyle has been creating algorithmic art since 2009 using Processing software as his main tool of expression and is now focusing on integrating 3D art and animation into interactive art pieces. He has exhibited at the Phoenix Experimental Arts Festival, Mesa Arts Center, SideLuck PotShow Phoenix, and the Arizona Science Center. www.kylejenkins.info