Foreword
openFrameworks began aroud 2004. I was teaching at Parsons School of Design and at the same time making a living as an artist creating interactive projects with code
I had graduated a few years earlier from grad school in 2002
we were using computational tools like Director lingo it was the heyday of flash experimentation
invited me to collaborate with him on some projects after I graduated from school and he introduced me to ACU Aesthetics
quite oriented to late 90s tech such as SGI machines actively maintained
folks like ben had fortuitously moved on to
It seemed like we would need an alternative codebase moving forward remember vividly
remarkably wild experimental