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