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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 20d

#JobAlert: RISD's new department of Computation, Technology & Culture seeks adjunct faculty to teach Introduction to Computation, and related art+technology subjects, in Providence RI:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

RISD’s Computation, Technology & Culture (CTC) Department is looking for adjunct faculty as we expand our curriculum. We’re building courses such as: - Introduction to Computation - Introduction ...

RISD’s Computation, Technology & Culture (CTC) Department is looking for adjunct faculty as we expand our curriculum. We’re building courses such as: - Introduction to Computation - Introduction to P...

www.linkedin.com

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Sep 4

#JobAlert: Assistant Professor of AI in the Visual-Arts, Ohio State University:— osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Assistant Professor of AI in the Visual Arts

Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact [email protected]. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Aug 9

Parking this Damien Hirst interview here in anticipation of portfolio review season.

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Dan Moore @makeitdoathing.com · Aug 2

@molleindustria.org LMAO this is gold

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jul 26

Thanks for sharing this -- they post a table of values for male/female vocal tract parameters asmp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/articles/10....

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jul 26

Thrilled to hear from you, Neil—didn't realize you were on this site. Pink Trombone is a piece of pure genius. I'll be giving my simplified version to students for creative-coding design experiments (puppeteering, face-tracking UI, etc.) and will be sure to share the results with you!

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jul 25

ffs

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jul 25

We present a simplified, p5.js version of the vocal tract synthesizer from Neil Thapen's popular Pink Trombone, adapted for use in a creative coding assignment concerned with interaction design and absurd puppeteering.
Interactive: editor.p5js.org/golan/sketch...
Writeup: github.com/golanlevin/6...

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Kalonica @kalonica.bsky.social · Jul 25

I recommend singing a little song while drawing the fish

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Just parking my favorite childhood PSA here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=edvO...

We're Not Candy (complete version)

YouTube video by arQivisT

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · Jul 21

Crazy new killer app idea for creativity: it’s okay for beginners to make bad art, just let them

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Nice work - a helpful tool. Of possible interest:
• msurguy.github.io/cnc-text-tool/
• github.com/golanlevin/p...

GitHub - golanlevin/p5.plotSvg: A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting.

A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting. - GitHub - golanlevin/p5.plotSvg: A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting.

github.com

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jul 5

I watched the video, I didn't see the Studio.

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jul 1

The amazing Lumi Barron (linktr.ee/thou_art_lumi) is teaching an online class this August in felted stop-motion character animation — ideal for your creative teen: lumibarron.com/felted-stop-...

Felted Stop Motion Character Animation Class - lumibarron.com

Felted Stop Motion Character Animation Class 7 Week Class August 5th - September 16th Class: Tuesday Evenings- 7:30-9pm CSTOpen Studio Hours (Optional): Sundays 2-5pm CSTLocation: Online Taught by Lum...

lumibarron.com

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jun 11

It's a good point. In Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Thai (and some dialects of Greek, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic), "B" and "V" are pronounced identically.

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jun 11

Feeling nostalgic for vacuum fluorescent displays of my youth, I've added p5.js implementations of 7, 14, and 16-segment procedural typefaces to my archive of p5-single-line-font-resources: github.com/golanlevin/p...

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thank you; this is classy 🙂

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jun 5

marvelously obscure pixel-play, thank you for the tasty

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jun 5

checks out ;)
congrats on your book!!!

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jun 4

🎩
Thank you. I think porting/preserving someone's code is one of the highest forms of praise. JT's "Textension" piece was a bit of brilliance that needs to be rescued in full.

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jun 4

For some super arcane deep cuts, I've ported JT Nimoy's "Textension" vector font (1999) and Douglas Hofstadter's "Letter Spirit" gridfonts (c.1987-1996) to p5.js, now available in my archive of p5-single-line-font-resources: github.com/golanlevin/p...

JT Nimoy's monoline font from Textension (1999)

Some of Douglas Hofstadter's "Letter Spirit" fonts (1987-1996)

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crowe ✦ hex 🌱 @hexnoblesse.bsky.social · Jun 4

genuinely everyone should read this 💕

Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · Jun 4

rss feed update - 6/3/25 - In an era of slop / make aalittle thing out of clay

everest-pipkin.com#rss.html#6/4...

6/3/25 - In an era of slop / make aalittle thing out of clay

Last month, I was invited to give a short commencement speech to the Parson’s Design & Tech BFA graduates. This was a… challenge, this year, but also meant a lot to me. The edited and cleaned up version of this speech follows.

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · Jun 4

The excellent Stochastic Labs is offering summer residencies in the Bay Area for artists investigating AI creative tools, new futures of sound and graphics, and tangible and material interfaces. Apply now! stochasticlabs.org/alternative-...

Alternative Frontiers

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · May 29

Terrific new work in designing fair dice with arbitrary shapes, by Hossein Baktash at CMU:
• www.newscientist.com/article/2482...
• hbaktash.github.io/files/rollin...

hbaktash.github.io

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · May 13

One of the ice cream shops in my neighborhood sells Lactaid at the counter for 50¢. I asked them how many people buy them and they said roughly 1 per hour. Alas, I've tried numerous times but can't seem to convince the other place, whose ice cream I prefer, to do the same.

Lactaid on the counter of an ice cream parlor

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