<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; ">Greetings. </div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; ">Please join us for the October session of Processing Vancouver, hosted by VIVO Media Arts.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; ">The meetup will take place on next Tuesday, October 30th, 7-9pm.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; ">We will be featuring three presentations:</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(26, 26, 24); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">1) </span>Image Masks + Recent Work</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(26, 26, 24); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(26, 26, 24); ">A presentation by Andres Wanner, who will soon be leaving Vancouver, so we thought to get him in while we still can!</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(26, 26, 24); ">He will present an overview of his Processing work, and talk about the Image Mask class he wrote to draw with bitmap images.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; ">Andres Wanner is a Swiss-Canadian artist, interaction designer and educator. His interest is at the intersection of art and technology – he likes to tinker, invent and to play. A former faculty of Vancouver's School of Interactive Arts and Technology, he holds an MSc in Physics and a BA in Visual Communications, and is currently pursuing another Master’s degree in Applied Arts at Emily Carr.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; ">His work has been exhibited at SIGGRAPH, iDMAa, New Forms Festival, Re-new Festival, Artech, Hyperkult and other international venues. He is also the initiator of the International Pixelstorm-Award and has acted as the arts chair of the Computational Aesthetics conference 2011.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; ">His works deals with systems that generate aesthetic output: drawing machines, robots or generative software. With these he investigates questions of error, precision, and human control over machines.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; "><a href="http://pixelstorm.ch/">http://pixelstorm.ch/</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; ">2) POV: Points Of Vision</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">A project initiated by VIVO and Brady Marks, POV is a volumetric display </span>aiming to provide artists with a brand new means for creating and displaying works in 3D space. </div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; ">Those of you that came to the July edition of the P5Van meetup saw Brady present the POV display as it existed then... It has advanced a lot since then, physically and technically.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; ">Come see the current state of the project, and hear about some of the presentations slated for the first round of commissions that VIVO will be exhibiting on Nov 1st-3rd.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; "><a href="http://www.vivomediaarts.com/event/points-vision-beyond-2nd-dimension">http://www.vivomediaarts.com/event/points-vision-beyond-2nd-dimension</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; ">3) PWN THE WALL</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; ">A presentation by Jesse Scott on PWN THE WALL, an international collaboration between Graffiti Research Lab chapters in Canada, Germany, and South Korea.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; ">A realtime telematic drawing system between three cities, PWN THE WALL aims to collapse geographical and cultural space, enabling new forms of collaboration and digital vandalism.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; "><a href="http://graffitiresearchlab.ca/projects/pwn-the-wall/">http://graffitiresearchlab.ca/projects/pwn-the-wall/</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; ">VIVO is located at 1965 Main St.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; "><a href="http://www.vivomediaarts.com/">http://www.vivomediaarts.com/</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; ">___________________</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; "><b>Processing Vancouver</b></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; "><a href="http://processingvancouver.ca/">processingvancouver.ca</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; ">@<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/P5Van">P5Van</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; ">___________________</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; "><i>part of the global Processing Cities network</i></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><br><br></body></html>