Speakers: Mario Klingemann

Session

Here be Pixels

The ability to manipulate pixels with Actionscript has been around since Flash Player 8 so one might be inclined to think that after all those years there are no more white spots left on the Bitmap and no new discoveries to me made.

Far from it! Mario Klingemann will take you into the the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the BitmapData class and reveal the secret beauty of some unregarded methods that many might have overlooked in the first rush.

Bio

Mario Klingemann aka Quasimondo is what you get when you cross the analytic mind of a coder with the creative fervor of an artist and add a little bit of mad scientist mentality to the mix. In his aim to surprise himself and his audience he constantly tries to explore uncharted territories in order to discover unseen beauty and unthought ideas. A key factor in his work is the drive to overcome limitations by creatively repurposing and recombining objects and by this revealing their hidden qualities. His creations have been exhibited in international art shows and won acclaim among critics as exemplary pieces of net art.

He also shares his explorations and discoveries on design and technology conferences and is lead computational artisan at a.viary.com.