By way of documentary proof that I went through with it, here are a few photos of me speaking at the Flash On The Beach conference on Tuesday (with thanks to Avangelist and Leerraum Imaginationen).

It was quite a big deal for me. Public speaking is a long way from my natural habitat, and the prospect of speaking to 1000+ at what is easily the most impressive hall in Brighton, was, I’ll be frank, utterly terrifying. But I got through it, and actually enjoyed it once I was on stage.

For the benefit of those who saw it, the Generative Art blog I was talking about was not this one, but 100 Abandoned Artworks, which is where you can find the source code for all I showed (anything that isn’t there at the mo will be in the coming months).

Much love has to go out to the other presenters I was sharing a session with too. Great slots, all. Below is the running order with links to their work where I have them. There wasn’t one without something interesting to say, so I’ll be keeping an eye on their work and hopefully keeping in touch with a few of them too:

Aron Hallborg
Paul Croft
Chris Black
Trevor Boyle
Robert Turrall

Matt Pearson (me)
Jon Howard
Conrad Winchester
Frank Reitberger
Wim Vanhenden

Jolyon Russ
Nick Kuh
Ian Moreira
Michiel van der Ros
The nice young Kiwi lady whose name I didn’t catch, sorry.

Bartek Drozdz
Sean Randles
Bram Plessers
Andrew Fitzgerald
Iain Lobb

I’ve been to all four of the FOTB conferences, and I reckon this was probably the best one yet, mainly because of the widened range of topics. I saw multiple sessions on openFrameworks, Processing, Film, Sound and Web Design, and only a handful that were Flash specific. It was a great outside-the-box approach. Highlights for me were Joel Gethin Lewis’s inspired session, Jeremy Thorp’s news visualisations, Mario Klingemann’s mathart, and listening to a coding hero of mine (we nerds have heroes too yerknow) Karsten Schmidt.

For the rest of this week I will be de-teching a little and only speaking languages that human beings understand.

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