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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.
Showcase
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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WATCH ALL THE VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE TOUCHDESIGNER EVENT BERLIN 2024 - DAY 1
TouchDesigner Event Berlin 2024 in Pictures
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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
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It's not every day we introduce a new operator family for TouchDesigner.
POPs-A new Operator Family for TouchDesigner
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
The TDBitwig Demo: A Learning Toolkit
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Bitwig Studio is a powerful DAW (digital audio workstation), live music performance tool and show controller.
Introducing TDBitwig - Bridging TouchDesigner and Bitwig
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Situated on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Gran Telescopio Canarias, or GRANTECAN is the largest optical telescope of the world, where scientists observe the sky to further our knowledge of the universe.
Building a Digital Twin at Gran Telescopio Canarias
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Weidi Zhang is a new media artist and designer whose visually lush and elegant narratives contemplate and conceptualize a not-so-distant-future human-machine relationship.
Human-Machine Reality in the Immersive Art of Weidi Zhang
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Artist collective Tundra have conducted extensive experiments over the past few years, working with various robots to produce works such as the ROW series among others.
Robots as Sculptor and Sculpture in Tundra's Artistic Experiments
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We’re excited to announce the launch of a new educational portal: the TouchDesigner Curriculum at learn.derivative.ca made in collaboration with SudoMagic. This resource was built to help educators and learners get started with TouchDesigner.
Introducing the TouchDesigner Curriculum
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It doesn't get much more impressive - or potentially nervier - than creating 30 minutes of graphic content that is shown on a 10,000 square meters screen and broadcast live to 2 billion people around the world. Last year CaoYuxi did just that.
How CaoYuxi Created Visual Effects For the Beijing Olympics
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Petko Tanchev is a media artist and creative technologist with an expansive and influential career as stage designer for theatre and opera.
The Mastery of Digital Scenography with Petko Tanchev
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(repost Jan 2023) Michael Snow's "The Viewing of Six New Works" (2012) is a light projection composition derived from the essentialized movements of eyes and head that a possible person might make in looking at a rectangular object on the wall like a painting or photograph. Each hypothetical wall r
MOVEMENTS OF PERCEPTION with MICHAEL SNOW
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We have been following Boris Acket and Timo Lejeune of Lumus Instruments for quite some time now. Together they have been creating large scale installations investigating the control of something that is not fully controllable: fabric.
EINDER: A Far Away Imaginary Edge Created by the Horizon
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With the release of their twelfth studio album Unlimited Love, iconic American rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers launched their Unlimited Love World Tour 2022 with 46 sold-out stadium-capacity shows (thus far).
How SETUP Did a World Tour For the Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Download We are happy to announce the release of 2022 Official which marks the start of a new era for TouchDesigner. This year’s release orbits around a new core in TouchDesigner, a completely new graphics engine bringing us into the next chapter of TouchDesigner’s journey.
2022 Official Update
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We recently caught up with Dublin-based creative developer and sound and media artist Pauric Freeman who first came to our attention via his very compelling series of live a/v Instagram posts made with TouchDesigner and an Eurorack.
Pauric Freeman On Working with Sound, Image, Input Devices and Human Perception
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INFRATONAL is the audiovisual project of Parisian multidisciplinary artist Louk Amidou who uses hand gesture to perform both music and visuals in the most mesmerizing compositions while exploring the links between the human and the algorithms.
Exploring Humanized Algorithmic Art with INFRATONAL
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Moscow-based Studio SETUP design and build stages, installations and multimedia works of massive architectural proportions that seem to exist in some futuristic time/space.
With Studio SETUP it's Not Just About the Light
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Produced in 2003 by Derivative with architectural visionaries Herzog and de Meuron for the then-brand new Prada Epicenter Store in Tokyo, this was the longest-running TouchDesigner installation as of 2019.