Raster-Noton at Transmediale, Berlin, Jan 28, 2009

TORONTO JANUARY 22, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DERIVATIVE’S TOUCHDESIGNER MEETS RASTER NOTON, TRANSMEDIALE, BERLIN, JANUARY 28, 2009

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Derivative’s powerful software tool TouchDesigner will be deployed by critically lauded manipulators of photosonic waveforms Raster-Noton to orchestrate the visual aspect of their new rhythm_screen premiering at Transmediale, the festival for arts and digital culture in Berlin, Wednesday, January 28th.

Derivative is collaborating with Raster-Noton to design and build an expandable framework for multi-screen live performances. Essentially an evolved digital choreographer built with TouchDesigner enables the collaborators to freely prototype ideas, rapidly migrating from concepts and samples towards more precise, generative and flexible visual synthesis.

Dedicated to advancing the way we make art and visualize information and ideas, Derivative has produced live visuals and interactive art projects for an exemplary roster of international superstars that include Richie Hawtin, Prada, Herzog & de Meuron and Rush. They have also developed major theme park attractions globally.

The goal of TouchDesigner, through its open and broad architecture is to facilitate discovery and creativity for the individual. The company advocates “Visual Thinking” as counterpoint to today’s trend in “Visual Computing”. Visual thinking as experienced with TouchDesigner “moves the focus from the computer to the individual.” Derivative founder and CEO Greg Hermanovic explains. “Visual thinking describes an approach to exploration where the advanced graphics serve to facilitate the creative thinking process, where the individual is engaged - guiding and responding in a tight feedback loop.”

The release in August 2008 of TouchDesigner FTE - Free Thinking Environment - democratically puts a free development environment with an extremely rich feature set into the hands of artists, animators, educators and “everyone else” to build interactive graphics-accelerated 3D worlds and applications.

“TouchDesigner is our vision of what is possible in tomorrow’s software tools for building interactive applications and exploring data, imagery and sound.” Mr. Hermanovic states. “It exploits what is possible in today’s computing technology and is positioned to grow with the foreseeable advancements in computer, graphics and mobile technologies.”

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For further information please contact Greg Hermanovic at 416 591 3555 or email contact@derivative.ca.

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Anyone coming to see this?

youtube.com/watch?gl=DE&hl=de&v=fFGyoe0Rh5U

and just found this video where you can see some people drooling over the network editor
flickr.com/photos/nadjao/3236840882/

I wish I could hear what they were saying! Then again, my German is not that good anymore, it probably wouldn’t have helped.

That screen looked great!