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OFLab Breda
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Description:
With Bootcamp GDFB offers the chance to a group of 30 international designers to display their talent. A 4 day OpenFramweworks workshop will result in new works to be displayed during the festival.
GDFB invited OpenFrameworks to set up an OF Lab in Breda. In the week before the start of the festival (May 4 to May 8 2010) GDFB wants to bring together and international group of young, talented designers, hackers and software experts to develop different projects with OpenFrameworks that will be displayed in public space and/or different festivallocations during the festival (8 to 30 May). The lab is situated in the Graphic Design Museum.

Design I/O
OpenFrameworks is a C++ toolkit for creative coding that helps people create dynamic, engaging software. Increasingly, it has been used in the graphic design process, with projects such as EDHV’s Debugged, Emily Gobielle and Theo Watson's Here to There poster series, IQ Font, in which a stunt driver drives a typeface using a car and Jeremy Rotstains’s Obsessions, creative reinterpretations of flickr Images.

Often these projects employ the use of custom crafted software rather then using traditional toolsets such as photoshop or illustrator. The lab in Breda will be centered around this intersection of design and custom software. Essentially, we will be focused on creating software that takes some form of unique input: the human voice, topographical maps, gestural expression, results from computer vision based tracking -- and makes unique graphical outputs. We’ll have access to large plotters, printers, projectors and a slew of analog and non-analog equipment to help make our ideas reality.

In addition we will look a meta level -- what kinds of addons and support are needed to help make OpenFrameworks a better tool for folks invested in graphic design exploration. We will be pushing hard to create an expanded toolset prior to and during the workshop.

All work / code / ideas generated will be documented online as well as exhibited during the festival.

Teachers:
The lab will be led by Zach Lieberman (eyewriter /yesyesno) and Todd Vanderlin. Zach Lieberman is one of the co-founders of openframeworks and an artist and researcher based in New York. Todd Vanderlin is a researcher who focuses on computer vision technology, software development, sensory design, physical computing and real-time motion graphics. 
We're also planning several guest lectures and visits throughout the event.

Participants:
James Acres (Canada), Martin Bartels, Mattijs Bliek, Arne Boon, Amanda Butterworth, Rick Companje, Rolf Coppens, Ralp Das, Patrick Gutlich, Daphne Heemskerk, Jeroen Holthuis, Diederick Huijbers, Ben Jones (UK), Rozemarijn Jonker, Erik Kroes, Martin Nadal (Spain), Jarno Punt, Tiemen Rapati, Michael Schieben (Germany), Max Senden, Serkan Sokmen (Turkey), Sander Sturing, Thijs van Hoof, Jasper van Loenen, Dirk van Oosterbosch, Mathijs van Oosterhoudt, Ka Yuk Tong, Bart van Haren, Mike Broad (UK), Emily Gobeille (USA), Sayoko Yoshida (Japan), Takayuki Ito (Japan), Coen Zwaal, Tim Olden.
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