Young Creatives
u14 Award of Distinction
The Coded Art Gallery is a collection of nine different programs that offer a graphic representation and usually function in interaction with the observer. They can be executed with the computer only with the Processing IDE.
With my work, I would like to show that art and technology can be successfully combined. With most of the programs, the user can save the frame and operate the program with the mouse as well. The programs were created with the programming language Processing, which is based on Java. Pictures are incorporated into the programs that can be processed, or mathematical functions are depicted graphically. A great deal of experimentation is done in the programs with regard to the color and position of the depicted objects. Moreover, rotations and other functions are built into the programs.
I learned about the competition from my German teacher, because our class wanted to take part in the u14 category (the project could not be completed due to the Coronavirus). Since I have been programming for quite some time, I had the idea of entering this competition myself. Over time, however, it turned into so many individual programs that I grouped them in a gallery.
Project Credits / Acknowledgements
rocessing Foundation – for the provision of the software, in my opinion one of the best pieces of software for programming graphic representations: https://processingfoundation.org
Biography
Michael Zaminer (b. 2006) is a 13-year-old who attends school in Vienna’s 19th district and has been interested in technology since he was a child. He began programming in the fifth grade using Arduino (hardware). After a year he switched to the Java-based development environment Processing, with which graphic software, such as the programs in his award-winning project, can be programmed. He programs in C++ and HTML as well. In his free time, he plays soccer and enjoys skiing. He dreams of a job at SpaceX.
https://www.instagram.com/michael.zaminer/?hl=de
Jurystatement
In his submission, Michael Zaminer explores the constantly modulating interface between art and science/computer technology in a comprehensible and independent manner. One can sense his interest in and enthusiasm for the technology but also his delight in experimentation with regard to using the principle of randomness in design. This desire to rethink and reshape a world will certainly keep Michael Zaminer busy for a long time, and it will be interesting to observe what interfaces are still to change in the course of this journey. What we find particularly impressive and remarkable is the curiosity with which Michael utilizes a constantly changing and evolving technology as his “tools of the trade” and strives to explore autonomous varieties of structures of our world.
Talent Talks
As a complementary international part of the category u19–create your world of the Prix Ars Electronica, jury member and moderator Conny Lee (AT) is talking with some of this years winners about their ideas, creativity and future visions.
