NodeBox

Tom De Smedt | Curriculum vitae

Tom De Smedt
Born 27/09/1978 in Antwerp, Belgium
E-mail: tomdesmedt at domain trapdoor dot be
http://nodebox.net

Work experience

• 1990: secondary school, classical orientation (Latin)

• 1992: secondary school, modern orientation (language and science)

• 1996: started a programming masters at the Free University of Brussels
  1st bachelor: failed

• 1997: warehouseman at Nollekens NV, paints and cleaning products

• 1997: warehouseman at GB Unic NV, distribution centre

• 1997: intern at the Free University of Brussels accountancy department

• 1997: started a programming bachelor at the Hogeschool Antwerpen Campus Zuid

• 2000: internship at Real Software Belgium, worked on the Remax ERP application

• 2000: graduated at the Hogeschool Antwerpen Campus Zuid in programming
  1st bachelor: distinction
  2nd bachelor: distinction
  3rd bachelor: distinction

• 2000: started a graphic design masters at the St. Lucas School of Arts, Anwterp, Belgium

• 2003: internship at Vision&Factory, Brussels, including work for Living Tomorrow

• 2003: lead developer for the Mecca pen & paper storytelling game

• 2004: released a publication on automation in graphic design

• 2004: graduated at the St. Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp, Belgium in graphic design
  1st bachelor: distinction
  2nd bachelor: distinction
  1st master: great distinction
  2nd master: great distinction

• 2004: worked as a freelance graphic designer for Samsonite

• 2004: worked as a freelance graphic designer for Champ d’Action

• 2004: co-founder of the Experimental Media Group at the St. Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp, Belgium

• 2004: release of NodeBox, a graphic design tool developed in collaboration with Frederik De Bleser

• 2005: spokesman for the youth division of the Groen! left-wing party in the Antwerp suburbs

• 2006: started a PhD on Artificial Creativity (University of Antwerp, Computer Linguistics)
• 2006: employed as a researcher in an IWT/TETRA-project (Gravital), a collaboration of St. Lucas School of Arts Antwerp, the department of Computer Linguistics at the University of Antwerp and 14 Belgian companies.

Projects

• 1997: lead developer for a pen & paper role-playing game
• 2000: one of the leading artists for the stage decoration of the Hove Live festival, Belgium
• 2001: one of the leading artists for the stage decoration of the Hove Live festival, Belgium
• 2004-2006, NodeBox: research project on computer graphics at St. Lucas Antwerp
  
• 2007-2009, Gravital: an IWT-project on Artificial Creativity (IWT/60121, EUR 267612)
• 2007-2008, Creatures: a VAF-project on gaming (Creatures, 06/EX/096/06-295, EUR 22560)

Exhibitions

• 2005: exhibition at the MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium, at Champ d’Action’s Time Canvas exposition, http://old.champdaction.be/cda.php?p=Blotter

• 2006: exhibition at the Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium of the Evolution project, http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Evolution
  

Papers and publications

• 2004, NodeBox: Lahti Automation Workshop book
• 2005, Artificial Creativity: http://research.NodeBox.net/Emergence

• 2005, Artificial Creativity: http://replica.trapdoor.be/index.php/On_artificial_creativity

• 2005, Artificial Creativity: http://replica.trapdoor.be/index.php/Learning_learning

• 2005, NodeBox: Tech-Art paper

• 2005, Blotter: http://www.champdaction.be/cda.php?p=Blotter

• 2005, NodeBox: Flowerewolf, on generative poetry
  

• 2005, NodeBox: Computers and the Zen of Programming Art book, on emergence
• 2005, NodeBox: interview in De Standaard and on Radio2

• 2006, NodeBox: article in Counterform in Motion, a Russian magazine on typography

• 2006, NodeBox: article in ADD-magazine on the Champdaction logo

• 2006, Artificial Creativity: article in Add!ct-magazine #26
• 2007, Artificial Creativity: article in Add!ct-magazine #27 on gaming

Lectures and workshops

• 2003: participant in an experimental typography workshop at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Ireland
• 2004: presentation of NodeBox at Dorkbot, Ghent
• 2004: speaker at the AtypI 2004 conference in Prague on automation in graphic design.
• 2004: "Design Automation" workshop at the Lahti Institute of Design, Finland
• 2005: speaker at the AtypI 2005 conference in Helsinki on artificial intelligence in graphic design
• 2005: "Intelligence" workshop at the Lahti Institute of Design, Finland
• 2006: presentation of NodeBox at ELIA (European League of the Institutes of Arts), Gent, Belgium
• 2006: presentation of NodeBox at Dorkbot, Ghent
• 2007: "Memetics" workshop at the Lahti Institute of Design, Finland

Mentions

• 2005, NodeBox: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/math_science/NodeBox.html

• 2005, NodeBox: http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/papers/57/PyObjC-Intro.pd

• 2005, NodeBox: http://www.generatorx.no/20050921/NodeBox/

• 2005, NodeBox: http://www.ipb.pt/~vquelhas/research/project_links/view.php?cat=3

• 2005, NodeBox: http://www.freelists.org/archives/the_posthumans/03-2005/msg00026.html

• 2005, NodeBox: http://digitalmind.de/limited/shownews_111_2.html

• 2005, NodeBox: http://webagora.idd.tamabi.ac.jp/wiki/index.php?NodeBox

• 2005, NodeBox: http://www.peter.com.au/programming/scripted-drawing.html

• 2005, Artificial Intelligence: http://www.atypi.org/news_tool/news_rss_html?newsid=331
  

• 2005, NodeBox: http://www.ganyet.com/index.php/weblog/NodeBox-let-the-bot-design/

• 2005, NodeBox: http://www.tiblond.com/blog/index.php/2005/12/07/NodeBox

• 2005, NodeBox: http://www.regarde.org/blog/2005/09/27/info-art/NodeBox-de-lart-par-le-code/

• 2005, Flowerewolf: http://cart_355b.hybrid.concordia.ca/resources.html

• 2005, Flowerewolf: http://www.generatorx.no/20050922/oekandana/

• 2005, Flowerewolf: http://www.regarde.org/blog/category/info-art

• 2005, Flowerewolf: http://www.ipb.pt/~vquelhas/research/project_links/view.php?cat=3

Languages

• Dutch: native language

• English: excellent

• French: fair

• German: fair

Computer knowledge

• Operating systems: Windows, Unix and Mac operating systems

• Networking: servers, LAN networking and management

• Databases: MYSQL, MS Access, SQLite

• Programming languages: Cobol, Pascal, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, PyObjC, Cocoa, C

• Web practices: Rails, PHP, Javascript, DHTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, W3C standards, CMS, wiki

• Print practices: Certified PDF

• Software applications: Office, Gimp, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Acrobat, Pitstop, Fontlab, Director, Dreamweaver, Processing, NodeBox

• Practices and experience: OOP, Java design patterns, extreme programming, templating, Web 2.0, Artificial Intelligence for game development