SITE is a one-night contemporary art festival held across the Goat Farm Arts Center campus in Atlanta. For the October 3, 2026 event, I designed and built a twelve-axis kinetic wall through (TBD) Design as part of Room as Instrument.
Hey community! My new book is finally out! TouchDesigner Fundamentals 01 Cover Front After years of teaching TouchDesigner, I kept hearing the same questions: Why should I use this Operator instead of that one? What do I need to change if I want a different result? What should I learn first?
TouchDesigner Starter Bundle — Beginner through Intermediate, Winter 26/27 The NODE Institute is running a TouchDesigner Starter Bundle this winter: the Beginner Class straight through to the Intermediate Class, in one enrolment, 15% off booking them separately.
Derivative's TDMCP is the official MCP server for TouchDesigner. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI agents such as Claude or Codex connect to other software and work with it through a defined set of tools.
The Beginner Class taught you to think in nodes. This one teaches you to ship. The Beginner Class runs on playful exercises — one way of thinking per week, on screen fast. That's how you learn the tool. It isn't how the tool gets used.
Some people just need the material. Some need a mentor who's actually in it with them. Five years, 400+ students. The course was never the problem — two things around it were. The Winter 26/27 edition improves both.
Working with POP normals paves the way for exciting new experimentation in TouchDesigner. In this post, we take a look at how to get the most out of them. To continue reading this post, click here.
We've previously covered several fun phone and tablet apps that work with TouchDesigner in various blog posts and videos. This post brings a lot of them together in one place with links, so you have a handy reference.
We cover some of the exciting new features and updates included in the 2025.33070 TouchDesigner release, including glTF Support, the new Script POP, and more. To continue reading this post, click here.
Vlny is a cultural project and a series of events in eastern Slovakia focused on contemporary art, light installations, projections and visual experiences. TouchDesigner is one of the tools we use to explore the connection between physical spaces, movement and digital visuals.
Vlny is a cultural project and a series of events in eastern Slovakia focused on contemporary art, light installations, projections and visual experiences.
We break down what a depth camera is, how it differs from related technologies, and walk through the most common options you’ll encounter as a TouchDesigner developer. To continue reading this post, click here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6ENCnSUNY4 IDEAS VIVAS — an interactive audiovisual installation built with TouchDesigner The piece begins with a poetic premise: imagining ideas as living entities — small organisms that exist around us, moving, gathering, dissolving and transforming even b
The totally crazy Summer Sale 26 is on at The NODE Institute. 50% off on all recorded TouchDesigner courses, even bundles until End of August 2026 (Berlin Time) Collect them All! Explore the course catalogue!
Combining AI with TouchDesigner opens the door to extraordinary new creative possibilities. In this post we explore some remarkable artworks and installations that bring together artificial intelligence and TouchDesigner. To continue reading this post, click here.
We're back with another update to our Beginner Tricks series! Let's dive into some TouchDesigner beginner tips and tricks for 2026. To continue reading this post, click here.
This announcement is posted in collaboration our friends Andrew Quinn, Edoardo Olivetto aka EDOHARD and Mattia Diomedi who are organizing from Milan. Prepare yourselves for the 'Italian Touch' a TouchDesigner Meetup in Milan, September 25, 2026!
Mastering GLSL requires a great deal of attention and a sharp eye for detail. In this article, we will take a look at some common GLSL mistakes in TouchDesigner and how to avoid them. To continue reading this post, click here.
INTERACTIVE LASER WORKSHOP WITH TOUCHDESIGNER Hello, I’m Sungmin Oh, a Seoul-based media artist and creative technology instructor working with TouchDesigner, interactive laser systems, sound, hand tracking, DMX, haze, and real-time performance.
Object Segmentation TOP is a native C++ Custom Operators that runs state-of-the-art transformer-based object-segmentation models fully on GPU.
