Dan Shiffman doesn’t like titles. As an open source contributor, author, and professor, it might be because he has so many to pick from. In this conversation, we touch on all three, focusing on his work with Processing, a software sketchbook and language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts, why he loves working with beginners, and how code can be an expressive and powerful artistic medium.

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Dan Shiffman

Daniel Shiffman is an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is also a co-founder of the Processing Foundation works on developing tutorials, examples, and libraries for both Processing and the new p5.js framework.