Peter Kirn

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making, teaching, writing about creativity and technology

Speaking and teaching

I’m available as a speaker / panelist / educator talking about music, visuals, interaction, and real-time design. Here’s a selection of recent appearances.

You can also see some selected slides from recent presentations.

2009

MGFest Motion Graphics Fest Chicago
Motion Graphics Fest Cambridge

Featured presentation on how live visuals are impacting design
Day-long introduction to Processing workshop

New York City College of Technology
Guest workshop series, Introduction to visual coding in Processing

OFFF, Lisbon, Portugal
Spoke about DIY, openness, and technology
Curated by JuliĆ  Carboneras, also featuring Gijs Gieskes (circuit bender and musical inventor and artist) and Eric Wilhelm (Instructables founder)

New Work City, New York
Organized a global music and visual hackday, working with tangible interfaces

Upcoming: CMJ Music Festival, New York

2008

DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival), Ireland
Featured presentation on design and musical interfaces

Ignite! NYC
Crammed an introduction to Processing and programming for non-coders into five minutes, as per the rules of this O’Reilly-led event

South by Southwest Interactive, Austin, Texas
Organized “Data as Art: Data Visualization and Creative Code” presentation, with invited guest Joy Mountford, Vice President, Design Innovation, Yahoo

AIGA Design Educators Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
Featured workshop: introduction to Processing

Harvestworks, New York
Taught introduction to Processing

About me

I'm a composer, digital musician, live and interactive visualist, and technologist. I run the sites createdigitalmusic, createdigitalmotion, and noisepages. I teach, write, perform, and speak.