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<h1>Welcome to Field</h1> — <i>a development environment for making digital art</i>
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Field is an open-source software project initiated by [http://openendedgroup.com 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 was in development in-house for around 6 years. But for the last 16 months it has been quietly available online as an open source project. We are pleased to announce the initial "beta" binary open-source releases for Intel-based Macs OS X 10.5 or 10.6.

==== Places to start ====

 * '''[wiki:OverviewBanners2 Features]''' — what is Field and what can it do for you?
 * '''[BetaBinaryRelease Downloads]''' — where to download the beta versions of Field
 * '''[StandardLibrary Documentation]''' — jump straight into the documentation of Field's features.
 * '''[FieldNews News]''' — what's been happening recently in Field development?

==== About this site ====

This site 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 '''[http://groups.google.com/group/field-development/ group]''' — we're happy to hear from you.

[http://openendedgroup.com 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 [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3] license, and includes, depends on or is deeply indebted to several other [FieldDependancies open source projects]. You can get our source code '''[InstallingField#GettingField here]'''.