Programming in the world

Over eight years of working with computers, a recurring problem has been what to do when existing tools fail to grow along with artistic ideas. Having failed to become skilled at pro-gramming, I have repeatedly sought ways to deal with this problem. I describe my experi-ence of working with programmers and my adoption of various visual programming tools. I also describe some of the territories I have crossed in pondering the concepts of program-ming and computation, especially in regard to augmented reality. I also describe my group's recent work in augmented reality and music, as well as a promising approach to augmented reality authoring.