Krisjanis Rijnieks is a new media professional with a background in painting and multimedia. He holds a BA in painting, and parallel to his painting studies he has been doing a lot of things related to print, video, web, flash, Flash coding, and coding in general. It is not possible to name all the different categories of work but through all this a strong interest towards interactive digital media has been developed.

Creative coding is a new field that brings the art and design fields much closer to the one which is called coding. As he has been doing things on both sides, the combination of the two seemed natural. It is a way of using ones creative visual and logical skills together without worrying that an unsolvable conflict between the left and right side of the brain will occur.

For the past two years, he has been involved in many projects that include creative coding with technologies such as Flash ActionScript, openFrameworks, Cinder, iOS, Unity 3D, Kinect, Augmented Reality, Quartz Composer, VDMX, and projection mapping with MadMapper. Experience gathered through these projects required him to search for new and more powerful tools and skills constantly. Cinder is one of the tools that allows one to combine the hottest topics of todays computer science (computer vision, gesture recognition, and so on) with the craziest ideas and make them work in real time without acceleration lags.

Currently he is studying the New Media MA program at the Aalto University School of Art, Design, and Architecture, also known as the Helsinki Media Lab in Finland. He also does freelancing of commercial projects and is making his first entrepreneurial steps by managing his company called Skematic.

This is the very first book that he has written, and according to him it was fun and rewarding in terms of knowledge and experience.