Digital Ambiance has spent over a decade building permanent architectural lighting: installations that run continuously for years, operated day to day by facility teams who have never opened a node-based tool.
Showcase
British artist and technologist Brendan Dawes has spent over two decades exploring the relationship between people and technology through generative code and data.
Becoming Something Else: Brendan Dawes on Play, Systems, and TouchDesigner
In the diverse and often eclectic world of multimedia art and live performance, PlexusPlay stands out as a one-man powerhouse, combining euphoric dance music, reactive visuals, LED wearables, audience interactivity and jazzy synth xylophone in a high-energy live multimedia experience like no othe
Euphoric Beats, Interactive Feats: Inside PlexusPlay
That pepepepebrick is an extremely talented graphic designer is evident in the impressive body of work he has been posting on his Instagram account. Equally remarkable is the humor and whimsy in each piece, rooted in his Speculative Design mindset.
What if? Pepepepebrick X TouchDesigner
We are very pleased to present this article for both our English-speaking and Spanish-speaking communities! Nexa Sur Lab — Transforming Audio-Visual Education in Latin America Nexa Sur Lab is an innovative educational initiative that merges creativity, technology, and contemporary audiovisual art.
Introducing/Presentamos Nexa Sur Lab

Light-artist László Zsolt Bordos has never shied away from big canvases—mapping entire cathedrals and skyscrapers is his specialty, but with “Astrum” he set his sights on the sky itself.
Astrum: Turning Riyadh’s Skyline into a Living Planetarium

Stay tuned for PWNISHER DRÆM SEQUENCE Community Challenge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElY0G99viSs
PWNISHER DRÆM SEQUENCE Community Challenge

Last October, following a 31-night residency in Rome, we were lucky to experience Italian artist Quayola’s Solar at its North-American debut beneath Toronto’s Bentway. Solar is a kinetic light sculpture and performance where a KUKA robot traces the sun’s arc with 200 moving-heads carving crepuscular
Tracing the Sun: Quayola's Solar at The Bentway

Montreal media artist Matthew Biederman has spent the past two decades wielding data, light, and open-source code as instruments of cultural resistance.
Commons, Cameras, and Code: Art as Resistance with Matthew Biederman

TouchDesigner Event Tokyo 2025 | Nov 22–23 at Hikarie HALL B, Shibuya
TouchDesigner Event Tokyo 2025

DOWNLOAD 2025 Official TouchDesigner is here and we can’t wait to share it with you! This year’s release is quite special with the introduction of a completely new family of operators called Point Operators (POPs) bringing you a new high-performance approach to working with 3D in TouchDesigner.
2025 Official Update

This summer Derivative’s Isabelle Rousset and Greg Hermanovic took TouchDesigner on a mini-tour of Europe, hosting events in London, Dublin, and Paris.
London, Dublin & Paris: TouchDesigner Events Summer 2025

We spoke with Stefano Esposito, Head of Events & Special Projects at Clonwerk, about a cutting-edge technical solution developed to manage the graphic content of a major Italian television show—an ambitious and high-pressure production spanning roughly three months per year, with 9 episodes, o
Crafting a Next-Generation Graphics Management System with TouchDesigner

Over the past decade, the team at Intermediate Engineering (ImEn) has developed countless custom scheduling and playout solutions for exhibitions, media facades, and architectural installations.
PRISM: Revolutionizing Playout Systems with TouchDesigner

Get tickets at Eventbrite. We’re looking forward to the upcoming TouchDesigner Paris Summer Event, taking place at Point Éphémère on July 9th, 2025. This will be our first organized meetup in Paris, and we're really looking forward to connecting in person with the local TouchDesigner community!
TouchDesigner Event Paris Summer 2025

NOTE: IMPORTANT VENUE CHANGE - but a better one! Number 90 Bar Hackney Wick
TouchDesigner Event London Summer 2025

We’re looking forward to the upcoming TouchDesigner Dublin Summer Event, taking place at Flux on June 28th, 2025.. This will be our first organized meetup in Dublin, and we're really looking forward to connecting in person with the local TouchDesigner community!
TouchDesigner Event Dublin Summer 2025

In 2023, Emmanuel Lugo was an assistant to an intensive TouchDesigner course with Matthew Ragan and Zoe Sandoval of SudoMagic at Carnegie Mellon University, deepening his expertise with the platform.
TouchDesigner at CMU: Student Work and Insights from the Official Curriculum

Josef Pelz, a generative artist and creative coder with a background in mathematical visualization and computer science, has created T3D, a groundbreaking toolkit for the TouchDesigner community.
From GLSL to T3D: How Josef Pelz Simplified 3D Textures for All

Have you ever wished for a weather forecast app that combines precision with aesthetic appeal, making even the dreariest conditions a pleasure to interpret?
Painting the Weather: Aaron Alden’s Creative Take on Climate Data

Time flies – it was a year ago that we launched a new educational portal for TouchDesigner on learn.derivative.ca. In the year since the TouchDesigner Curriculum has gone live, we’ve gotten a lot of feedback from individuals and instructors who have gone through the materials.
Introducing the 200 Series for the TouchDesigner Curriculum

We would like to extend an invitation to our community to join us for the innaugural edition of Mesh Festival 2024 in Basel, Switzerland, October 16 to 20.
Join us at Mesh Festival 2024 – Tooling the Future
Earlier this summer at Volvoxlab's latest edition of TouchIn NYC, I caught up with Noah Norman from Hard Work Party learning for the first time about Third Wave Arcade, the new gaming platform he's been developing, and the video that introduces it.
Announcing Third Wave Arcade, a New Gaming Platform for TouchDesigner

AWS came to Hard Work Party with a loose brief wanting to tell a story involving both sustainability and their new generative AI tools for their Sustainability Showcase at the 2023 AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas.
Using Generative AI to Envision a Sustainable Near-Future
Vinyl enthusiast and media artist Jay Borgwardt has taken his love for analog music to the next level with the creation of the Vinyl Music Station.
Fusing Analog and Digital: Jay Borgwardt’s Vinyl Music Station with TouchDesigner

Presented by MusicMotion, a non-profit organization founded by Olivier Lalonde and Mélik-Alexandre Farhat dedicated to the "development and democratization of digital arts," HACKLAB24 took place from April 26 to 28, 2024, at the Société des Arts Technologiques in Montreal.
5 Teams Put TouchDesigner to Work at HackLab24

WATCH ALL THE VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE TOUCHDESIGNER EVENT BERLIN 2024 - DAY 1
TouchDesigner Event Berlin 2024 in Pictures

ROTOЯ | Sonic Body is a multimedia work by artist collective NO1 made up of Peter Kutin, Patrik Lechner, Mathias Lenz. At the core of the work is the rotor, a loudspeaker sculpture that spins at varying speeds, modulating a minimalist composition.
ROTOЯ | Sonic Body

It's not every day we introduce a new operator family for TouchDesigner.
POPs-A new Operator Family for TouchDesigner

UPDATE June 2024: Video recordings of the entire program from both days of presentations at HOLON are available on YouTube DAY 1: https://www.youtube.com/live/aGxNG_91a9U?si=X0KNjfSDctg7YqUm SIMON ALEXANDER ADAMS, USA | THE ART OF TOUCHDESIGNER GAMES (40 MIN)STANISLAV GLAZOV, DE | PURISTIC STABLE
TouchDesigner Event Berlin 2024

Designed exclusively for TouchDesigner and tailored especially to suit the requirements of VJs, audio-visual performers, and installation managers, this latest release of Zerror represents a notable progression in multimedia artistry.
404.zero Release Zerror V5 and it is Mighty


We’ve seen nodes and networks used in many logical, sometimes strange and even beautiful ways, to accomplish a wide array of tasks. However, what you will see as the results from Soyun Park’s students for their assignment “The Beauty of Nodes” is something we guarantee you have not seen before!
The Beauty of Nodes: Investigating TouchDesigner with Soyun Park and her Students

Download We are excited to announce the release of 2023 Official and bring you all the amazing new features we’ve been working on over the last year. This year’s release is heavily focused on new device and sensor support bringing many new options for tracking.
2023 Official Update
Hi everyone, I'm excited to share something that's been in the works for quite a while now – a new set of example files for TDBitwig. This release is a combination of a TouchDesigner environment file, a Bitwig project, and a detailed Wiki document to guide you through it.








