On February 9th 2019, COSA organized and sponsored Processing Community Day in Denver Colorado. PCD @ Denver was an inclusive event that brought together people of all ages to celebrate and explore art, code, and community. The day-long event featured workshops, community sharing, and a lot of inspiration! The event occurred in downtown Denver at the Commons on Champa and was made possible with volunteers, teachers and students, from 4 area universities. This was the first Processing Community Day in Denver and was part of more than a hundred such events that happened around the world in early February, initiated by the Processing Foundation. Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual arts and visual literacy within technology. There are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use Processing for learning and prototyping.

PCD @ Denver was a huge success, bringing together more than 60 people from across Colorado, ranging in ages from 10-60. A wide range of workshops helped people brand new to creative coding get started, and explored specific topics like sensors and sound in hands on settings. The community had chances to share their work in formal and informal ways and we also had two keynote speakers there to inspire people.

Ari Melenciano is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, designer, creative technologist, researcher, educator and activist who is passionate about exploring the relationships between various forms of design and the human experience. She spoke about her artwork and advocacy building events like Afrotechtopia and helped us cap off the day with a DJ/VJ performance!

Joshua Davis is an award-winning designer, technologist, author and artist in new media, and is acclaimed for his role in designing the visualization of IBMs Watson. His work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, the Design Museum in London, le Centre Pompidou in France, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, PS.1 MoMA in New York, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and more. He shared his artwork and lead a workshop on getting Professional with Processing.