Chung - Multimedia programming with Pure Data a comprehensive guide for digital artists for creating rich interactive multimedia applications using Pure Data

Bryan WC Chung is an interactive media artist and design consultant based in Hong Kong. His interactive media artworks have been exhibited at the World Wide Video Festival , Multimedia Art Asia Pacific , Stuttgart Film Winter Festival , Microwave International New Media Arts Festival , and the China Media Art Festival . In the former Shanghai Expo 2010 , he provided interactive media design consultancy to industry leaders in Hong Kong and China. Chung received a computer science bachelor degree in Hong Kong, an interactive multimedia master degree in London, and a fine art doctoral degree in Melbourne. He has been developing software libraries for the open source programming languageProcessing. Currently, he is Assistant Professor in the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, where he teaches subjects on interactive arts, computer graphics and multimedia design. His personal website is: http://www.magicandlove.com.

I would like to thank all my students and colleagues, especially Dr. Kam Wong, who had developed the syllabus of the courseInteractivity, which adopted Pure Data as the main teaching tool. I am also grateful to my wife, Dr. Kimburley Choi for her continuous support.

Cdric Buron, also known as Human Koala and Hektor Kafka is a Electronic Music Performer and Producer, GFX Developer, Web Developer, Technical Consultant for artists, and Pure Data Teacher. Since his first Computer, an 8-bit one, Computers was for HK a music instrument, a highly adaptable tool for graphic or musical creation. After following a Pure Data Formation. he has started to teach Pure Data, Processing at CRAS (Centre de Ressource d'Art Sensitif: http://www.mainsdoeuvres.org/rubrique90.html) at St Ouen. He is also admin for the Pure Data part of the http://www.codelab.fr Forum (a French forum about creative programming). Passionate about the interface between Technology & Art, he is occasionally Technical Consultant for Artists or Company to help building Tools for performance, or installation (Emilie Pitoiset, Radio Marais, SFR).

Music Producer and Performer as Human Koala/Hektor Kafka, he has played live in several place and several Digital Art and Performance Events in Paris:

One of his trax was aired by Ryuichi Sakamoto for his radio broadcast "Radio Sakamoto" (where am i-Dr Riot and Miss Velvet (Human Koala & Miho) Shinohara) His personal website is http://www.humankoala.com.

I would like to thank Agns Le Foulgoc from CRAS to give me the opportunity to teach this wonderful language and Benote my wife.

Guy John is a professional software engineer, with a heavy interest in the meeting point of music, art and technology. Originally coming from a hardware and electronics background, he moved over to using more software upon discovering the sheer range of audio programming languages available, and has continued to use a number of them in his projects. Despite always finding new tools to learn, he still finds himself regularly coming back to PureData because of its power and flexibility.

I'd like to thank everybody at Packt publishing for letting me be involved with this book, and the Pure Data community for creating such an excellent piece of software.

Antonio Roberts is a new-media artist and curator based in Birmingham, UK, whose work focuses on the errors and glitches generated by digital technology.

Since 2007 he has curated a number of exhibitions and projects including fizzPOP (2009 - 2010), GLI.TC/H Birmingham (2011), the Birmingham edition of Bring Your Own Beamer (2012), and Dirty New Media (2013).

As a performer and visual artist his work has been featured at galleries and festivals around the world including Databit.me in Arles, France, Laptops Meet Musicians Festival in Venice, Italy, Notacon in Cleavland, Ohio, US, Leeds International Film Festival in the UK, and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham, UK.

In 2013 he contributed the foreword to AlphabeNt: Experiments from A-Z, which is an exploration of glitch art and typography by Australian authors Daniel Purvis and Drew Taylor (ISBN 978-0-98740-070-3).

I would like to thank the Pure Data community of developers and users for their unwavering devotion to developing the software.