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As a practicing visual artist / art school hippie who recently got into working as a software engineer I got really excited when I saw this, noted problems aside. But I wasn't surprised to see it was limited to UI/UX.

I'm having a really hard time finding other art school grads and visual artists working on the engineering side of tech and it's starting to make me feel a little crazy.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to find some other visual artists working as software engineers to connect with?

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Art school grad here - Though I'm not a professional software developer myself, I have a couple artist/SWE friends who are involved in the Algorave community along with a lot of other creative coders. While not a strictly visual medium it could be a nice jumping off point to look into!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorave

Hey thank you so much!

Semi-related, I've been trying to get some resources together for a handful of artists / musicians trying to break into tech on this linked repo.

If you or your artist/SWE friends have any suggestions on helpful resources I'm desperately trying to get more on there via pull requests or the discord linked in the repo!

https://github.com/tombetthauser/artists-in-tech-resources

A couple few groups that I know of off the top of my head where you might find a lot of overlap between art and tech type people would be the "metaverse" (virtual worlds engines [1][2] and their users) and the closely related 3d graphic arts/game design [3][4].

[1] http://opensimulator.org/

[2] https://github.com/HalcyonGrid

[3] https://www.blender.org/

[4] https://godotengine.org/

There's also the livecoding [0][1] world!

[0] https://toplap.org/ [1] https://supercollider.github.io/

Thats a great thought and those are great suggestions. Thank you! :)

So what happened to me was I started working in film and TV production, and as things became more complicated I had to start writing scripts to automate our pipelines, building servers to share files and track equipment. But most of the time when I use the computer, it's to teach it how to help me make films faster. Most of the tools I write don't have any kind of visual UI components beyond how the documentation is typeset.

Hey, lets link up. Does HN have dm's?

lol, if only? :^p

I recently set up a little discord community and corresponding github repo for a couple of other artists trying to break into tech to share resources, connect etc. Hit me up on there or github for sure!

https://discord.gg/3vdb6rk24D | https://github.com/tombetthauser/artists-in-tech-resources

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