Interactive Video: Intro to Touchdesigner
May 20 @ 6:00 pm– May 29 @ 8:00 pm EDT
$175.00
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
May 20-29 (4 classes, 8 hours of instruction)
$175 (10% discount for members. Not yet a member? Click here for details)
open to ages 16+
Register with the “tickets” button at the bottom of this page
In this hands-on digital video workshop, we’ll explore how to recreate psychedelic video effects inspired by the experimental video artists of the 60s and 70s. Using the free version of TouchDesigner, you’ll learn how to manipulate video in real time, creating dynamic and abstract visuals. This workshop doesn’t require any previous coding experience—just a curious mind and a willingness to play.
Squeaky Wheel’s classroom is outfitted with Mac computers. If would like to bring your own laptop, please download and install Touchdesigner before class. You can find it at this link.
Class limited to 8 participants.
Contact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions!
Instructors: Jason Geistweidt and James Pardue
JASON E GEISTWEIDT is an intermedia artist working at the nexus of music technology, physical computing, creative coding, networked systems, digital fabrication, interactive installation, and performance. Grounding his research is the use of purpose-built tools and systems for generating media via procedural, yet aleatoric or otherwise chance methodologies. Conceptually his work plays with ideas of control, intention, and expectation within the creative process. His approach is experimental, interconnecting disparate systems in a desire to make the intangible — data, networks, computation, and the like — tangible through their transduction into objects, events, and experiences.
JAMES PARDUE is an experimental multimedia artist and researcher based in Buffalo, NY. His work incorporates old and emerging forms of electronic media, such as video and audio synthesis, physical computing, and generative imagery in real-time multimedia performances and installations. Through his work, he experiments with interaction between generated electronic phenomena and the tangible world, with the intent to reimagine a more democratic relationship with media. Pardue’s research delves into alternative media histories, such as experimental television and variances in computation, to advocate for resistance against technological determinism. Currently, he is an MFA candidate in the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo.
