First up I saw Mario Klingemann talking about his love of maths and geometry, showing a variety of ways of visualising complex patterns, including ways of finding patterns in prime numbers by ordering them in different arrays.
He also showed an ingenius experiement to use the 140 characters of Twitter to embed images, creating a flash program that compresses and interprets an image to condense it down to the correct number of bytes to fit the character allowance.
See here his 'Mona Tweeta': http://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/3518306770/
http://www.quasimondo.com/
Other notable speakers were Andre Michelle for his incredible audio generation and experimentation lab.andre-michelle.com
And Jared Ficklin for his experiemental approach to visualising sound, using smoke machines and flames, he was like the very best kind of science teachers. He works for Frog Design http://www.frogdesign.com/
Closing out the day was self-proclaimed 'rock star' of design Joshua Davis. My impression of Davis' work had always been that it was a bit 'samey' he approached each project with the same generative method: he writes some parameters of his design in Actionscript, runs the program and curates the output. However seeing him present a range of his work, I realised there is much more to his process than this, such as work with other artists and social interaction projects, what really came across was his endless and unrelenting energy and passion for all things visual. Yes, his work is essentially illustration and I struggle to truly class the results as graphic design but the process itself is almost more interesting that the final artworks and that is why he continues to be of interest.
http://www.joshuadavis.com/
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