Foundations of Immersive Room Creation
3 Lessons / May 11 – 25, 2026 / 4-7 PM Berlin Time
From Imagination to Audiovisual Immersion
This three lesson online course with Stefan Kraus (aka MXZEHN) invites artists, musicians, and media architects to understand immersive content creation for immersive rooms using TouchDesigner, covering a wide range of topics and techniques specific to the format. These lessons can be consumed live or recorded.
Want to go further? This course is part of a nine lesson Creative Masterclass, that culminates in a screening in Leipzig and Studio Sessions in Berlin, Germany.
Foundations of Immersive Room Creation
This online course is an accessible introduction to immersive room production, offering three online lessons that provide essential skills for navigating any geometry and immersive projections. Open to a broad audience, this part equips participants with the foundational knowledge needed to create engaging immersive content.
- 3 x 3 hour online lessons
- Affordable and accessible, open to a broad audience
- Focus on creative solutions to challenging resolutions and time based drama
- Part of a Creative Masterclass that provides personal guidance and in person training
What You’ll Learn
- Navigate technical and artistic challenges of immersive media systems
- Understand 2D and 3D generative content pipelines for any geometry
- Combine various techniques to create dynamic visuals optimized for immersive spaces
- Understand real-time strategies for live immersive performances and concerts
Your Instructor
Stefan Kraus, media artist and educator, is co-founder of The NODE Institute, the projection mapping festival, Genius Loci Weimar, and the media art studio, MXZEHN. Trained as an architect, Stefan explores the augmentation of physical structures using interactive and generative media and the narrative potential of abstract imagery. He holds a special interest in the art of live visual improvisation and creates augmented scenographies for theater, dance and music performances. After teaching Interaction Design at Bauhaus-University Weimar for over two decades, Stefan now enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience with the creative coding community. His studio produces interactive installations, live media performances and augmented reality applications for commercial clients, festivals, institutions and exhibitions.
With these foundations you will be ready to create immersive room content in TouchDesigner – curious about creating a show for Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig?
https://thenodeinstitute.org/courses/foundations-immersive-room