Biography
Web http://wnugroho.org
Email wnugroho [ at ] gmail.com
Widianto Nugroho is an artist, designer, programmer, researcher, and part-time lecturer. He is primarily interested in computational media, and free/open source software (FOSS), among other things.
In the computational media, he explores methods and tools used in computer science or informatics engineering fields (computation, algorithm, and programming) to address and solve design problems as well as medium of expression with its unique potential. This activity resulted in series of software and generative works[1][2]. He works mainly with Processing[3], an open source programming language and environment to program images, animation, and interactions. He contributes to the Processing project through lectures, workshops[4], and translated the reference of Processing language into Indonesian. From 2005-2007, at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) he assisted undergraduate course in digital printmaking, where he spreads the idea of art making with programming.
In his other life, Widianto works as web and information system specialist at ITB. He is responsible for leading a team in designing, implementing, and maintaining the daily operation of top-level ITB web site[5]. From 2007, at Microelectronics Center[6] ITB, he is a member of a research group focused on the distribution of freely available Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) application packages and simple Linux-based desktop environment that can be run on low-end PC and removable media.
Widianto graduated in 1999 from ITB with Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in ceramics. He is currently doing his graduate work in Curriculum Development leading to a Master of Education degree at Indonesia University of Education (UPI) in Bandung Indonesia.
Widianto lives in Bandung with his wife Aam, his daughter Alia, and his son Ilham.
Links
[1] http://wnugroho.org
[2] http://graphics.itb.ac.id/wnugroho
[3] http://processing.org
[4] http://flickr.com/wnugroho/tags/processing
[5] http://www.itb.ac.id
[6] http://www.paume.itb.ac.id