Discovering Beautiful Data (workshop will be held in English) :..::..: check out Gary's other workshop about New Constructs

Flash 8 has introduced several amazing new features that compel us to rethink our limits, our possibilities, and even the process by which we achieve our creations. It has opened the door to many imaginative possibilities for creating previously impossible experiences in our work. Several of Flash's new features have shifted the focus from vectors to bitmaps, giving us the capability for integrating real time motion effects into our work for the first time. My own personal challenge has been in finding ways to introduce the real time effects in ways that enhance the work and in the end produce a more meaningful user experience. This presentation will focus on the data that underlies the bitmapData object, the filters and effects at our disposal to manipulate that data, and some of my creative solutions and outcomes that I hope will educate and inspire.

Gary Stasiuk is a Flash educator, designer & developer working out of Vancouver, on the West coast of Canada. The focus of his professional work centers on user experience, interface development, and information & data delivery via Flash. In 2004, Gary launched the open source art / experimental Flash project liquidjourney.com as a creative venue for his interactive experiments and photography. The goal of the project is to develop innovative code and new ideas for Flash games and applications and to seek and build relationships with other like minds in the Flash community. He also develops media content through his company, Praxis Interactive as well as creating interactive material for educators with the Media Design Group. As an educator, he teaches and develops Flash courses at the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, in Vancouver.

web site: http://www.liquidjourney.com ::.:: Contact email: gs@liquidjourney.com