Institutes

John Maeda:
http://acg.media.mit.edu/
"at the mit media laboratory aesthetics + computation group we work toward the design of advanced system architectures and thought processes to enable the creation of (as yet) unimaginable forms and spaces "

Art forums:

information arts
Conceptual/Information Arts (CIA) is the experimental program within the Art Department at San Francisco State University dedicated to preparing artists and media experimentors to work at the cutting edge of technology.
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runme.org
Runme.org is a software art repository, launched in January 2003. It is an open, moderated database to which people are welcome to submit projects they consider to be interesting examples of software art.

bootlab
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netzspannung.org
netzspannung.org ist ein dynamisches Wissensportal für digitale Kulturen.
Als fachübergreifendes Bindeglied zwischen Medienkunst und -gestaltung, Wissenschaft und Technologie kommuniziert die Plattform die vielfältigen Aktivitäten der Medienkulturszene und baut einen aktuellen Informationspool auf.

Code:

Andrea Lynn Stein:
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/cs101/
Rethinking CS101 is a project to develop a curriculum for the first course in computer science based around the idea of computation as interaction.
Perhaps the most fundamental idea in modern computer science is that of interactive processes. Computation is embedded in a (physical or virtual) world; its role is to interact with that world to produce desired behavior. While von Neumann serial programming has it that computation-as-calculation uses inputs -- at the beginning -- to produce outputs -- at the end -- computation-as-interaction treats inputs as things that are monitored and outputs as actions that are taken over the lifetime of an ongoing process. By beginning with a decomposition in terms of interacting computational processes, we can teach our students a model of the world much closer to the one that underlies the thinking of most computer professionals.

Ben Fry and Casey Reas:
proce55ing.net
Processing is an open project . It is currently developed at the MIT Media Lab, the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, and by a group of distributed developers across the Net.
Processing is a context for exploring the emerging conceptual space enabled by electronic media. It is an environment for learning the fundamentals of computer programming within the context of the electronic arts and it is an electronic sketchbook for developing ideas.

Paul A. Fishwick
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~fishwick/aescomputing/
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~fishwick/cap6836/artcomputer.htm
Professor of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida.
" By marrying traditional methods for computer programming with an artistic temperament, we give birth to a new phenomenon: the aesthetic program. "

Florian Cramer:
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/homepage/
Florian Cramer, M.A., lecturer in Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin
Areas of research: comparative studies in the literature and the arts, modernism, text theory, literature and computing)