Blog - page 5
This is my blog. Sometimes in these posts I’ll talk about research or art projects I’m involved with, sometimes I’ll just ramble about other stuff which is keeping me up at night. If you’re interested in a certain topic, click on a tag to see just the posts with that tag:
acma acmc ai ccc covid19 cs4all cybernetics elixir emacs extempore gigs lens life livecoding media phoenix python reimagine research student-project teaching tools ux web widgets zed
If anything here sparks your interest (or your ire!) then get in touch via email or discuss on HN.
28 Sep '18
Another reveal.js plugin for Jekyll
I use Jekyll to create my course websites and
reveal.js to create my lecture slides.
Both of them are awesome, and allow me to focus on writing (hopefully) great
content, and the formatting/presentation stuff stays out of the way until I git push the updates to the server.
22 Jun '18
Hosting a self-built jekyll site on GH pages
This blog is built from markdown files using Jekyll hosted on GitHub pages, which saves a lot of hassle involved with DIY hosting[^hassle]. There are a bunch of useful tutorials on how to set all this up.
22 Jun '18
CHI hangs
Here’s a photo of Kieran and I hanging out at CHI. I’ll write a more detailed trip report some other time, but from the general chats I had with people (and random unsolicited blog posts) it seems like the ritual started some conversations.
06 Jun '18
ANU Laptop Orchestra
One of the coolest parts of my job is doing livecoding gigs—here’s a recent set I did at Smiths as part of Soundscapes #21. A big shout-out to Ushini Attanayake (not in the video, sadly) who did a fantastic job of her first livecoding set.
05 Jun '18
Centre for the Public Awareness of Code
What’s your favourite movie? Most folks already have an answer to this question (because they’ve been asked before). Mine’s The Castle.
24 Apr '18
The Other Side: Algorithm as Ritual in Artificial Intelligence
Tomorrow morning (Wed April 25, 9am Montréal time) Kieran Browne and I are performing an Artificial Intelligence divination ritual as part of the alt.chi session Scary, Sporty, Ginger and Posh.
06 Sep '17
Telopea Hour of Code
Welcome, Telopea Hour of Code students. Here are a couple of links you’ll need today: the p5 web editor and the slides for the presentation.
11 Aug '17
Science Week gig
I’m playing a livecoding set at the ACT Science Week launch party tonight. Sorry about the late notice to anyone who uses this blog to come to my gigs—I really should set up a newsletter or something. I think there are still a few tickets left ($5, available from the website linked above).
10 Jul '17
COMP1720 teaser
If you’re an ANU student and you want to learn how to make art with code, then sign up for COMP1720/6720 in semester 2, 2017. Taught by me and a bunch of internationally recognised artists (there’s a weekly computational artist guest lecture) it’s the best way to scratch the art+code itch at the ANU.
06 Jul '17
benswift.me update (July 2017 edition)
Well, benswift.me has been given another coat of paint. The content’s still a
bit sparse, but hopefully this time it’ll be the place to go to keep up with my
adventures in livecoding, research and just generally making thing with
computers—and teaching others to do the same.
01 Dec '16
Blog refresh
Another year, and another blog refresh. It’s still a clojure-powered static site with my own fumbling, hand-rolled css, but this time I’m using Cryogen which has been pretty nice to work with so far.