It’s happened to you. You know the pain. You travel a long distance for an installation or project you’re working on. You try to get to the job site or you’re waiting for dinner and BAM! You lose all your energy. You just want to lie down for a few minutes. You feel like it’s…
As I heard within the last few days, there are a small handful of tickets still available for the TouchDesigner Summit 2019 to be held in Montreal on August 17-19. I decided it would be nice to get a little head start leading up to the Summit on why I’ll be attending, what I enjoyed…
You’ve no doubt been knee-deep in a TouchDesigner project and found yourself thinking “Ugh, I wish I knew a bit more math, this would be a lot easier.” But where does one begin? It’s easy for folks who came from a computer science background or more academic careers like architecture. For artists and musicians, all…
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh boy. Can you believe it? 100 posts, 100 newsletters (although probably more since I changed the name a bunch of times…). I’ve been writing and sharing my experiences in the TouchDesigner, interactive media and virtual production industry on this site for a long time now, and since this is the 100th post and newsletter…
Most of you know by now that I started my career in music, and more specifically classical music. I was a trombone soloist, whatever that means, and one of my first jobs when I was in high school was working for my private teacher, David Marlatt, who also ran a music publishing business called Eighth…
Interactive projections and System design developed by Joaquin Habacon Description We created an installation for the STEAM Awards ceremony in Ottawa, Canada at the Aviation Museum. The awards event celebrated the bright minds of our future in the categories of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math and what better way to decorate the event is…
Hi all, Elburz here for a quick intro. I had the pleasure of meeting Zoe years ago in Los Angeles and Zoe gave me a wonderful tour of the UCLA REMAP facilities. Since then, we’ve kept in touch over the years. Zoe has been really delivering some amazing projects and creating a lot of really…
Interactive projections developed by Simon Alexander-Adams Description Lucid Dreaming was an interactive photo op created by ARTECHOUSE for HP and Intel’s Lucid Dreaming photo op at Coachella 2019. Festival attendees stepped into a three walled space with floor to ceiling projections that reacted to their movement. The screens were translucent, allowing the participants to be…
S.C.A.L.E. (Sound, Color, Abstract, Light, Environment) by Elena Tilli Description How do our senses drive us to explore and investigate the unknown?Which ones do we rely on the most to find the “right” exit from the labyrinth? The path seems to take us exactly where we want to go without getting lost, and our senses…
VISCERALITY by SYNTHESTRUCT Description VISCERALITY is live immersive full dome audio+visual experience created by Synthestruct (Ginger Leigh) that explores new methods of controlling audio and visual elements for real-time performance. The artist uses sensor-enable Mi.Mu gloves to navigate and control audio and 3-dimensional visual spaces in real-time through her gestures and movements. The artist has…