I'm offline for a week (ocassional access to email given) and giving a workshop on "interactive art", the biggest teaching i've yet made.

Half of the participants come from the art sector and only few have a bit of programming experience. There is no plan what we are going to do, i intend to give an overview of important things (reactivity and state models, simulation and animation techniques and such) and then try to realize some small project.

Things i really love are some of the effectv things (chameleon is great!) - i'd would be so damn cool if we were able to do something like that. Maybe a bit less technical but more art. I'm also thinking about using blender and/or python-soya or pygame. (But i have never written a python program)

If you have some idea, something i should not miss, please send me an email (we won't have a big network connection, just a Modem for ~120 people) i'd really appreciate suggestions. Also if you could point me to some good introductory papers or examples i'd be very happy.