Art meets the open web: announcing the Mozilla Eyebeam Open(Art) Fellows
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/12/05/openart/
Art meets the open web
Dec 5 2012
Announcing the Mozilla Eyebeam Open(Art) Fellows
Stefan Hechenberger and Addie Wagenknecht, Toby Schachman and Forrest Oliphant
Today, Mozilla and the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center are pleased to announce the recipients of the first-ever Open(Art) Fellowships. Together, these creative technologists will be exploring the frontier of art and the open web as part of our new Open(Art) program.
Pushing the boundaries of creative code
Supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Open(Art) initiative is all about supporting projects that facilitate artistic expression and learning on the open web, using code to enable cutting-edge art, media and hardware production.
Over the next six months, the fellows will create open source tools and works that enable creative production and open participation. They’ll document their progress online, seek to grow communities of artists, developers and users around their projects, and publish their resulting code under an open license.
And the fellows are…
The 2013 Open(Art) fellows are:
Forrest Oliphant: Meemoo
Meemoo brings the power of app development to everyone. It’s an HTML5 data flow programming environment with an emphasis on realtime audio-visual manipulation. Using an intuitive visual interface that lets users connect modules together using colorful “wires,” Meemoo lets anyone remix and build their own creative apps right in the browser.
“I often see kids playing with touch screen apps that only do what the developer designs it to do,” Forrest says. “I want to blur that line between developer and user, and allow more people to create different kinds of media.”