DevArt = Art + Code

Screenshot of the DEVO ART website, a platform for code-based art, featuring a navigation bar, search options, a call-to-action for coders, and thumbnails of various art projects.

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Trevin Shirey

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Trevin serves as the VP of Marketing at WebFX. He has worked on over 450 marketing campaigns and has been building websites for over 25 years. His work has been featured by Search Engine Land, USA Today, Fast Company and Inc.

There’s an emerging group of developers that use computer science to express their creative vision, such as artist Zach Lieberman exploring audiovisual expression and artist-duo Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet, creative developers that use code to create visual art.

Watch the DevArt intro video to get an idea of what it’s all about.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=30yGOxJJ2PQ%3Frel%3D0

DevArt ranges from CSS art made using only circles:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ztwSAZ7lJg8%3Frel%3D0

To rendering butterflies using node.js, socket.io, and other JavaScript libraries:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uHQC0FDpvzE%3Frel%3D0

See more DevArt on their Gallery.

DevArt Gallery

Google is running a DevArt competition with various prizes; the top prize being £25,000 (equivalent to about $41,000) and a commission for a digital art installation in the Digital Revolution exhibition at the Barbican in London.

Learn how to enter the competition on Google’s DevArt site. You’ll need a GitHub account. Deadline is March 28, 2014 so better start coding!

Trevin serves as the VP of Marketing at WebFX. He has worked on over 450 marketing campaigns and has been building websites for over 25 years. His work has been featured by Search Engine Land, USA Today, Fast Company and Inc.
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