Welcome to Field

— a development environment for making digital art

Field is a software project initiated by OpenEnded Group, for the creation of their digital artworks. It is an environment for writing code to rapidly and experimentally assemble and explore algorithmic systems. It is visual, it is hybrid, it is code-based. We think that it has something to offer a diverse range of programmers and artists.

Based on ideas started at the MIT Media Lab, Field has been in development in-house for around 6 years but for the last year it has been quietly available online as an open source project. We are pleased to announce the first "beta" binary open-source releases for Mac OS X 10.5.

• Features — what is Field and what can it do for you?
• Downloads — where to download the beta versions of Field
• Documentation — jump straight into the documentation of Field's features.
• News — what's been happening recently in Field development?

This is where Field is developed, and the information here (and the source code) can be browsed by anybody. But to really contribute — submit patches, edit pages and get our attention — you'll need an account on this website.

You can Email field at openendedgroup.com with questions or, preferably, join our group — we're happy to hear from you.

The OpenEnded Group's main website contains more general audience information concerning the group's work, history and future plans. This site provides tools that will aid the development of Field by a growing open source community. Field is distributed under the GPL v3 license, and includes, depends on or is deeply indebted to several other open source projects.