I’m available as a speaker / panelist / educator talking about music, visuals, interaction, and real-time design. Here’s a selection of recent appearances.
I’m currently an Adjunct Lecturer in Digital Technology at Parsons the New School of Design, teaching Processing, Pd, interactive visuals, programming logic, Arduino, and sound.
You can also see some selected slides from recent presentations.
Upcoming
South by Southwest Music
NetAudioLX
Virginia Tech
2011
The Future of Music V: The Craft of iPad Music Making
Featured panelist, Tekserve, New York, NY
2010
Android Only
Featured speaker, Processing and Android
October 4-5
Stockholm, Sweden
Handmade Music, STEIM Research center, Amsterdam, NL
Featured presentation, speaking about open source, DIY, standards, and music
CommuniKey Festival, Boulder, Colorado
Presented an introduction to Processing
RSVP, Hamburg, DE
Presented a talk on visuals, music interfaces, and language, with an emphasis on MIDI and OSC as musical notation. See pictures from Precious Forever, the organizing design firm.
Digitopia at Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal
Taught a multi-day workshop introducing visual interfaces for music and sound, in Processing; see Digitopia site
2009
MGFest Motion Graphics Fest Chicago
Motion Graphics Fest Cambridge
Featured presentation on how live visuals are impacting design
Day-long introduction to Processing workshop
New York City College of Technology
Guest workshop series, Introduction to visual coding in Processing
OFFF, Lisbon, Portugal
Spoke about DIY, openness, and technology
Curated by Julià Carboneras, also featuring Gijs Gieskes (circuit bender and musical inventor and artist) and Eric Wilhelm (Instructables founder)
New Work City, New York
Organized a global music and visual hackday, working with tangible interfaces
Upcoming: CMJ Music Festival, New York
2008
DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival), Ireland
Featured presentation on design and musical interfaces
Ignite! NYC
Crammed an introduction to Processing and programming for non-coders into five minutes, as per the rules of this O’Reilly-led event
South by Southwest Interactive, Austin, Texas
Organized “Data as Art: Data Visualization and Creative Code” presentation, with invited guest Joy Mountford, Vice President, Design Innovation, Yahoo
AIGA Design Educators Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
Featured workshop: introduction to Processing
Harvestworks, New York
Taught introduction to Processing
Peter Kirn
Speaking and teaching
I’m available as a speaker / panelist / educator talking about music, visuals, interaction, and real-time design. Here’s a selection of recent appearances.
I’m currently an Adjunct Lecturer in Digital Technology at Parsons the New School of Design, teaching Processing, Pd, interactive visuals, programming logic, Arduino, and sound.
You can also see some selected slides from recent presentations.
Upcoming
South by Southwest Music
NetAudioLX
Virginia Tech
2011
The Future of Music V: The Craft of iPad Music Making
Featured panelist, Tekserve, New York, NY
2010
Android Only
Featured speaker, Processing and Android
October 4-5
Stockholm, Sweden
Handmade Music, STEIM Research center, Amsterdam, NL
Featured presentation, speaking about open source, DIY, standards, and music
CommuniKey Festival, Boulder, Colorado
Presented an introduction to Processing
RSVP, Hamburg, DE
Presented a talk on visuals, music interfaces, and language, with an emphasis on MIDI and OSC as musical notation. See pictures from Precious Forever, the organizing design firm.
Digitopia at Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal
Taught a multi-day workshop introducing visual interfaces for music and sound, in Processing; see Digitopia site
2009
MGFest Motion Graphics Fest Chicago
Motion Graphics Fest Cambridge
Featured presentation on how live visuals are impacting design
Day-long introduction to Processing workshop
New York City College of Technology
Guest workshop series, Introduction to visual coding in Processing
OFFF, Lisbon, Portugal
Spoke about DIY, openness, and technology
Curated by Julià Carboneras, also featuring Gijs Gieskes (circuit bender and musical inventor and artist) and Eric Wilhelm (Instructables founder)
New Work City, New York
Organized a global music and visual hackday, working with tangible interfaces
Upcoming: CMJ Music Festival, New York
2008
DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival), Ireland
Featured presentation on design and musical interfaces
Ignite! NYC
Crammed an introduction to Processing and programming for non-coders into five minutes, as per the rules of this O’Reilly-led event
South by Southwest Interactive, Austin, Texas
Organized “Data as Art: Data Visualization and Creative Code” presentation, with invited guest Joy Mountford, Vice President, Design Innovation, Yahoo
AIGA Design Educators Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
Featured workshop: introduction to Processing
Harvestworks, New York
Taught introduction to Processing