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TouchDesigner Event Berlin 2024 May 21-23 We are very pleased to announce the return of our TouchDesigner event to Berlin, set to take place at HOLON and other venues from May 21 to May 23, 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.
TouchDesigner at Prada Epicenter Tokyo with Herzog & de Meuron Advance the Art of Architectural Visuals
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Bileam Tschepe aka elekktronaut is a Berlin-based artist and educator who creates audio-reactive, interactive and organic digital artworks, systems and installations in TouchDesigner, collaborating with and teaching people worldwide.
Bileam Tschepe on Teaching and Learning TouchDesigner
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The year is 2021, a pandemic rages across the lands and things are weird and limited. It’s also 3021 and things are even weirder and more limited on the DandiDoesIt LPVG (Live Performance Video Game), a self-described "anti-capitalist satire" streaming on Twitch.
Dandi Does It! Again and Again... and Again...
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the.collapse is a live performance created by the prolific multi-disciplinary artist Julien Bayle in early 2021 based on his eponymous album released on ETER Lab in 2020 during the pandemic crisis.
Julien Bayle's the.collapse
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Tom Sepe has a rich history of making kinetic art starting with building flaming art cars for Burning Man, then creating more permanent installations for Obscura Digital involving the design, fabrication, installation and maintenance of some complex projects like transforming a Tesla Model S into a
Tom Sepe Built 2 Robots for Meow Wolf's OmegaMart and They Almost Killed Him
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In the spring of 2020 Associate Professor of Practice Sven Ortel organized an introductory TouchDesigner workshop for the summer at The University of Texas at Austin. The pandemic and lockdown that ensued forced him to rethink what knowledge and skills would prove most relevant moving forward.
Theatre in the Time of Isolation: Building a Remote Production Desk with TouchDesigner
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With the release of the TouchEngine API this week we are very pleased to concurrently feature the first large-scale integration of TouchEngine by Front Pictures with their powerful universal show production tool Screenberry, an advanced media hub with rich automation and media management capabiliti
Introducing TouchEngine and Front Pictures' Screenberry Integration
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Think and Sense produced a remarkable large-scale point cloud-based exhibit and media control system for an LED wall at the entrance of the new Tokorozawa campus of the media company Kadokawa Corporation near Tokyo.
Point Cloud Mastery from Think and Sense
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Back in July of 2020 The Interactive & Immersive HQ put on the very first and only live esports event for interactive tech and media professionals and boy-oh-boy what a show-stopper of an event it was!
TouchDesigner Showdown at the HQ Championship
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Control Room 42 (CR42) a project from RTBF, public broadcaster for the French speaking part of Belgium, gives broadcasting's traditionally hardware-based control room a radical makeover enabled by TouchDesigner in ways its designer Hugo Ortiz thought impossible a few years ago.
Control Room 42 Ushers in the Future of Broadcasting
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DOWNLOAD We are very pleased to announce TouchDesigner's 2021 Official Update and tell you about all the exciting features of this release. This year's update touches (pun intended) so many parts of TouchDesigner.
2021 Official Update
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With the live music scene but a dim pre-pandemic memory, Bushwick nightclub and music venue Elsewhere known for its prescience in booking next-gen talent and shaping music scenes, launches “Elsewhere Sound Space” a monthly virtual live music/comedy/variety show streaming on Twitch that promises a q
Elsewhere Sound Space: Twitch's First Space Cult
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Meet Collectif Scale, a Paris-based group of artists and creatives from various callings who joined forces in 2010 with a shared passion for creating state-of-the-art installations and performances that have been quite aptly described as the ‘ballets of robots’.