Glitch Wizard Uncovered: Art-Making Mobile Apps

Seminar + Reception
Glitch Wizard Uncovered: Art-Making Mobile Apps with Connor Bell and Allan Lavell

Thursday, October 22, 2015
7-10pm
FREE

Join visiting artists and Glitch Wizard co-creators Connor Bell and Allan Lavell on their quest to empower anyone to create glitch new media art through mobile apps. In this seminar, Connor and Allan will discuss their creative process, providing an in-depth look into their Glitch Wizard app and guiding you through basic to advanced data-bending techniques. Attendees will receive a code to download Glitch Wizard for free.

What is Glitch Wizard? Glitch Wizard is an iOS application developed by Connor Bell and Allan Lavell that allows users to create animated glitches from photos, videos and GIFs, and share them to multiple social networks.

Connor Bell is a new media artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He creates games and art tools that help him and others express themselves. Glitch Wizard, co-created with Allan Lavell, is an iOS app that creates unique glitch art animations and images through a variety of circuit bending techniques. His latest app, Moon Shadow, layers video effects on specific colours of an image feed by chroma keying.

Allan Lavell is an artist and a programmer. Unsatisfied with dedicating himself to only one skill (his 15 years of programming), Lavell lives by the 80/20 rule: learning the 20% of a skill that yields 80% of the value. He continues to push his disciplinary boundaries, recently combining product design, growth hacking, and web programming into a social movement surrounding the Canadian Federal Election: right2vote.ca.

Workshop
Trans-Dimensional Photo Filters with Connor Bell

Friday, October 23, 2015
6-8pm
FREE
Seating is limited

Ever wanted your own psychedelic selfie station? Learn how to make one using an in-browser tool to post-process a webcam stream and see your creations come to life. Learn about basic image transformations to create your own unique selfie script. For inspiration, we walk through the design and development of a simple Glitch Wizard filter. Basic programming skills will be useful but are not required.

Material Fee: None.

What, if any, prerequisite knowledge should students have? Basic programming skills are an asset.

What materials/equipment should students bring? A webcam-enabled laptop.

Required Software: Webcam capture software (like Photo Booth) and a browser.

About the Instructor: Visiting Artist Connor Bell is a new media artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He creates games and art tools that help him and others express themselves. Glitch Wizard, co-created with Allan Lavell, is an iOS app that creates unique glitch art animations and images through a variety of circuit bending techniques. His latest app, Moon Shadow, layers video effects on specific colours of an image feed by chroma keying.