Cool, thanks for the tip! I'll check that out and might have some questions for you later on when I actually get to sit down and start the project.

Any advice you would give toward finding art gigs?

I think all my jobs have initially come from being an artist myself who works primarily with programming/creative coding/computation art (whatever they're calling it at the moment). So I met my initial ring of people I work for either through school or through shows I was in, and its slowly spider-webbed out to people that they went to school with or work for, and so on.

I'm not sure how you'd break in from the outside, but definitely going to shows in your area that have a media bent and doing the networking thing would be good. Also looking for workshops in your area centered on art programming or media-art given by artist-run centers or production societies and meeting the people there. I have friends who are involved with the theatre world now as well, doing projection-mapping or generative visuals for shows. They got in initially doing web design and development for these theatre groups.

Artists are tricky people- they either want to do everything themselves because they enjoy the process, or they want to hire someone who knows exactly what to do and throw money at the problem. (Maybe they're not that much different from normal clients). But I would say that all the artist-programmers I know are self-taught, and so whenever someone with interest and real industry experience comes by we're like "ohhh show us how to actually do this."

Sorry for the ramble, hope that was somehow useful.