{"id":10426,"date":"2013-11-22T08:02:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T16:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=10426"},"modified":"2013-11-22T08:02:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T16:02:17","slug":"profile-erik-natzke-generative-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/22\/profile-erik-natzke-generative-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile: Erik Natzke, Generative Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.natzke.com\">Erik<\/a> kinda makes me sick\u2014with jealousy. He\u2019s that exceedingly rare combination of a great artist &amp; great technologist. His work has inspired me for more than a decade (I still keep a folder of his ancient SWF \u201ctoys\u201d), and I\u2019m so happy he\u2019s now creating some groundbreaking touch tools at Adobe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/77185119\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/77185119<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;What if?&#8221; Erik Natzke, generative artist and principle designer at Adobe, uses this question to constantly test what is possible at the intersection of art and technology.<\/p>\n<p>In this lynda.com Creative Spark, Erik explains his quest to build tools that improve people&#8217;s ability to be creative\u2014and to make them forget they&#8217;re using a tool to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>By combining interactivity, remote collaboration, touch input, and gestures with the real-world behavior of paper, ink, and brushes, he hopes to build applications that lead to a more organic, playful, and inspiring creative experience.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/77185119\">Vimeo<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik kinda makes me sick\u2014with jealousy. He\u2019s that exceedingly rare combination of a great artist &amp; great technologist. His work has inspired me for more than a decade (I still keep a folder of his ancient SWF \u201ctoys\u201d), and I\u2019m so happy he\u2019s now creating some groundbreaking touch tools at Adobe. \u00a0 &#8220;What if?&#8221; Erik [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}