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The Processing Foundation was founded in 2012 after more than a decade of work with the original Processing software.

The Foundation’s mission is to promote software literacy within the visual arts, and visual literacy within technology-related fields. We cultivate creative code and communities to empower learners, coders, and artists to shape equitable digital futures.

09/03/2026

Processing celebrates its 25th anniversary at Ars Electronica Festival from September 9–13, 2026.

In 2001, Processing began with a simple goal: to introduce software and technology to the larger world. A quarter century later, that idea has grown into a global movement, empowering millions of people around the world to think, experiment, and express themselves through code.

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🔗 Link in bio for more info

Photo: elekhlekha, “Network Gong Ensemble Archive,” 2025.

“Radical Futures: Creative Code, Agency, and Humanity” looks to the future, exploring the role of creative code and human intervention in a world that is increasingly conversant with automated systems––featuring the work of elekhlekha, Spencer Chang, and LaJuné McMillan.

“Radical Futures: Creative Code, Agency, and Humanity” | Features Exhibition
🗓️September 9 to 13, 2026
📍Francisco Carolinum Linz
OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH, Museumstraße 14, 4010 Linz, Austria

Photo: LaJuné McMillan, “A Child’s Prayer.”

Reflect on a quarter century of open-source innovation and discover how Processing has empowered a generation of artists, educators, and tool builders, while continuing to shape new forms of creative expression, learning, and technological experimentations.

🔗 Limited capacity — link in bio to register for the event

“A Quarter Century of Processing” | Lecture Performance
🗓️ Thursday, September 10, 16:00–16:30
📍Deep Space 8K
Ars-Electronica-Straße 1, 4040 Linz, Austria

Image credit: Charlotte McElwain

The Creative Coding Open House is a cozy, living-room-style space hosted by Processing, vvvv, COSA, and other creative coding communities. Drop in and share your work, meet fellow artists and technologists, or just hang out with like-minded folks. Open every day during the festival from 13:00-18:00.

🔗 Link in bio to see the schedule.

Creative Coding Open House
🗓️September 9 to 13, 2026
📍Linzer Innovationshauptplatz
Pfarrgasse 3, 4020 Linz, Austria

Special thanks to the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design at Ohio State University.

09/01/2026

In 2001, Processing began with a simple goal: to introduce software art to the larger world.

A quarter century later, that idea has grown into a global movement, empowering millions of creators around the world to think, experiment, and express themselves through code.

The name “Processing” refers to process over final results––the perpetually active, running state of software. In that spirit, here’s what’s coming next:

* New website designed by
* Community archiving with
* Celebration at Ars Electronica
* Global Processing Community Day in October

Happy 25 years of Processing! 🎉

Interactive graphic made with by .d.m

07/21/2026

📣 Open Call: 25 years of Processing and we want to see everything you’ve made!

We’re launching two community channels on Are.na to archive and celebrate all the work made with these creative tools.

If you have a Processing Java or p5.js project that you’d like to share, add it to the channel! In your block, include the project title, author’s name, and a brief note about how you used Processing.

We’ll add submissions into curated collections that will be featured on our website and community celebration events.

🔗 Share your work with us - link in bio

07/15/2026

How do separate points find a seamless, continuous flow? 
In this p5.js tutorial, digital artist Alexis introduces the new spline functions in p5.js v2. She demonstrates how to instantly turn rigid shapes into fluid, natural lines, explaining the core logic of how these curves bend. From there, she guides you through a step-by-step progression, using trigonometry to build geometric forms, adding Perlin noise for organic motion, and stacking offset copies to create a dimensional, interactive system of “rubber bands.” 
🔗 Watch the tutorial – link in bio.

This tutorial is produced in partnership with the Tezos Foundation.

07/14/2026

“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.”

Inspired by the famous quote by Paul Klee, the latest release by uses the new spline feature in p5.js v2 to bring generative code into the physical world.

“Take a Spline for a Walk” is designed to be printed, cut, and folded into a small book where a single continuous curve flows seamlessly across multiple pages.

Aleksandra is a digital artist and associate professor whose practice explores the relationships between psychology and algorithms, the aesthetics of data visualization, and the human tendency to find meaningful patterns in random events.

🔗Collect on Bootloader – link in bio.

Aleksandra’s tutorial on splines drops tomorrow – stay tuned!

Produced in partnership with the Tezos Foundation and Bootloader, a generative art platform on .

06/30/2026

What happens if we lose open and creative digital infrastructure?

At UN Open Source Week, Qianqian Ye moderated a panel with Salome Asega (NEW INC), Neta B., (School For Poetic Computation), and Ruth Ikegah, (Ruth Ikegah) where they discussed why sustaining and financing creative digital infrastructure is necessary for the public interest.

As Neta noted, when infrastructure works well, it’s invisible. It’s only when community spaces disappear that we feel its absence.

Without sustained investment, the essential spaces that ensure AI and technology serve public interest risk disappearing too.

🔗Watch the full panel - link in bio

📸: Bowen Li

06/25/2026

Processing Foundation is back at UN Open Source Week!

As AI reshapes how software is built, used, and governed, what does it take to sustain open digital infrastructure that serves the public good, especially for creative communities?

Marking the 25th anniversary of Processing, Qianqian Ye, Director of Creative Technology, is moderating a panel with Salome Asega (NEW INC), Neta Bomani (School For Poetic Computation), and Ruth Ikegah (Ruth Ikegah).

This panel of creative practitioners reflect on stewardship, accessibility, and authorship, to reevaluate the future of open and creative digital infrastructure in the age of AI.

“Sustaining Open and Creative Digital Infrastructure in the Age of AI”
June 26, 2026
United Nations Open Source Week Community Day

06/24/2026

Transform static letterforms into interactive, animated type with p5.js v2!

In the latest tutorial, artist and educator Qianqian Ye demonstrates how to animate text and custom shapes.
Load fonts with async control, animate weight and style dynamically with variable fonts, and deconstruct letters into editable paths. Combined with mouse interaction, text becomes a responsive and interactive material.

🔗 Watch the tutorial – link in bio.

This tutorial is produced in partnership with

06/23/2026

“Becoming a Mother at the End of the World” is a generative artwork built on text produced by a language model trained on postpartum writing.

The passages move through tenderness, dread, joy, and exhaustion––sometimes addressed to a child, sometimes to a mother. Moving between legibility and abstraction, the text symbolizes two early ways of seeing: the monochrome low-contrast blur through which newborns first encounter the world, and the ultrasound imagery, which is how most mothers first see their children. 
Qian Qian is a Chinese artist, designer and educator working with code. They previously led p5.js for 4 years.

🔗 Check out “Becoming a Mother at the End of the World” on Bootloader - Objkt

Produced in partnership with the Tezos Foundation and Bootloader, a generative art platform on .

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