TouchDesigner is a node based visual programming language for real time interactive multimedia content, developed by the Toronto-based company Derivative. It’s been used by artists, programmers, creative coders, software designers, and performers to create performances, installations, and fixed media works. https://derivative.ca
Material Interactions – A New Species of Design
In a debut collaboration, a series of five material-driven kinetic sculptures by designers Nadya Suvorova and Heidi Jalkh don’t just move: they respond, proving that "passive matter" is anything but.
Zero Range – Documenting the unbearable in a culture of systematic filtering
Zero Range is an interactive installation that exposes the administrative violence of data that is recorded but ignored. It highlights how available information about violence vanishes through systematic disregard and filtering.
Submirror – Self-perception, loss of control, and digital puppetry
Submirror is a body of work by Atelier Lozano-Hemmer comprised of mirrors that do not reflect faithfully; they act with intention, manipulating the viewer’s image to reveal a version of the self that is not their own.
// FON_OS – Presence and Transformation
// FON_OS is a collaborative audiovisual performance and a research project by Fon Román and Oswaldo García that explores how heritage spaces can be reimagined as living instruments through the fusion of real-time sound improvisation and architect...
Necto – 3D Knitted, Anticlastic, Spatial Surface
Necto explores the theme of Intelligens through an immersive and computationally derived membrane structure that speculates on the future of temporary structures—lightweight, flexible and efficient, and embedded with latent intelligence.
Datalake:Groundtruth – Algorithmic hyperrealism
Datalake:Groundtruth is a triptych that takes the viewer into a series of ever-changing landscapes, marked by catastrophic events such as floods, landslides, fires, explosions, and the continuous destruction and construction of buildings and artif...
HIDDEN ORDERS – Microstructural Machine
This drawing machine uses the properties of crystalline structures as the drawing unit, and the dynamic staggered arrangement of controlled crystalline structures to create a miniature landscape, attempting to strike a balance between the properti...
FlowStates – Real-Time Data Painting
"FlowStates" is a permanent data painting installation situated in the entrance hall of the ifo Institute, the prestigious Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich. The artwork is driven by algorithms that convert data s...
Data Bugs – When Interaction Design meets Explainable AI
Data Bugs is an immersive emotional installation that makes tangible and experiential the working mechanism of a neural network, demystifying the omnipotence that is too often attributed to AI.
Helios 2024 – Imaging and imagining the sun
Helios 2024 is a celebration of the sun in its phase of solar maximum by audiovisual artist Dan Tapper. The exhibition gathers solar data from space organizations, as well as utilizing Tapper’s DIY devices that encode solar data into lo-fi playabl...
A Drop of Light – Structured Light Laboratory (SLL)
'A Drop of Light’ is an interactive new-media art research project aimed at developing a computer-generated holographic spot as a responsive techno-hypermedium with which the performer interacts and her techno-perception is embodied, expressed, an...
A Quickie in the Bouncy House – Pierce Warnecke x Matthew Biederman
Created by Matthew Biederman for the upcoming album by Pierce Warnecke, 'A Quickie in the Bouncy House' is a music video deploying Stable Diffusion to explore the edges of the AI text-to-image, forcing it into SFW corners of its training where it ...
Unlearning Language – Using AI to be less machine-like
Created by Lauren Lee McCarthy & Kyle McDonald, Unlearning Language is an interactive installation and performance that uses machine learning to provoke the participants to find new understandings of language, undetectable to algorithms.
Cryptographic Beings – Biology as digital storage
Created by Michael Sedbon, 'Cryptographic Beings' is a technological proposal that leverages our ability to control and abstract biology to perform digital information storage.
PERACH – Understanding ourselves and our surroundings
'PERACH' is a biofeedback art installation that allows visitors to 'feel' the interior electrical happenings of their plants. Perach consists of a multi-sensor IoT device along with a web platform that provides visitors with the ability to hear, a...
Latentscape – Franz Rosati
Created by Franz Rosati, 'Latentscape' depicts exploration of virtual landscapes and territories, supported by music generated by machine learning tools trained on traditional, folk and pop music with no temporal and cultural limitations.
object blue & TSVI: Thought Experiment – Organic to electronic evolutionary processes
Created by Matteo Zamagni, this video speculates the shift from organic to electronic evolutionary processes. Cybernetic organisms, partly made of organic structures and part electronic components respond to their environment in a variety of ways ...
Aberration Lab – Participatory light drawing
Created by VTProDesign, 'Aberration Lab' is a participatory art experience that alchemizes user-submitted tweets into long exposure light paintings drawn in real time by a Kuka robot.
Expressions – Paint and pixel matière at micro-scale
Created by Kynd in collaboration with Yu Miyashita (Sound), 'Expressions' is a series of artworks exploring the physicality of thick and bold paint-like dynamic constructs that emerge from illuminated digital space revealing an intricate play of s...
CMD: Experiment in bio-algorithmic politics
Created by Michael Sedbon, 'CMD' is an apparatus designed to explore how our technologies and ecosystems interact and what narratives and politics do they serve. The project questions what sort of ecological and social logic should be implemented ...
Plug, play and learn at the TouchDesigner Summit 2018 in Berlin
This weekend, February 3rd to 4th, we will join 230 TouchDesigner users at Derivative’s second ever TouchDesigner Summit in Berlin for an 48-hour marathon of workshops, masterclasses, and presentations.
Lull – Between order and chaos
Created for the inaugural 'Day for Night festival' by AV&C’s Vincent Houzé, Stephen Baker and David Bianciardi, Lull is an immersive and contemplative installation that explores the liminal state between conscious and unconscious.
Saturn Submerged – Infinite boxes of infinite space
Created by Gabriel Pulecio, Saturn Submerged is part of an ongoing series of ‘infinity boxes’ that create expanded spaces within themselves. The sculpture is composed of multiple mirrored surfaces and LEDs, which are fused to create the illusion o...
Perspection – Anamorphic image and sound synthesis across multiple screens
An audiovisual installation by Matthew Biederman and Pierce Warnecke, Perspection is an anamorphic projection with directional sound that adjusts to a viewer’s position.
BOSOZOKU – DUB-Russell x Yasuyuki Yoshida
Created by DUB-Russell (Music) and Yasuyuki Yoshida (Visuals) and produced BRDG Tokyo, BOSOZOKU is music video that combines beats and grains of sound texture created with Max/MSP and cut and paste generative video assemblage using TouchDesigner.
Cycles – 17 laser projectors visualise audio inside a sphere
Created by COCOLAB from Mexico and commissioned by ARCA, Cycles is an audio visual installation that uses a series of laser projectors to visualise short cycle audio compositions by a collection of A/V artists.
TUNDRA’s Powwow Under the Powerlines & Songs from Inside The Whale
Tundra define themselves as a "collaborative artistic collective" whose members include musicians, sound engineers, programmers and visual artists. Their focus is to create "spaces and experiences by making sound, visuals and emotions work togethe...
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