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Interactive Media with TouchDesigner In-Person
This workshop focuses on interactive workflows of interfacing various input and output data within TouchDesigner. TouchDesigner is a node-based visual programming software for real-time interactive multimedia content.
Following an overview of the software through concepts like proceduralism and data flow, interactivity is explored with a variety of input devices such as peripherals, cameras, depth sensors, MIDI controllers, biofeedback sensors and microcontrollers.
Participants will learn how to interpret and process this data using node-based operations to craft dynamic and expressive experiences with a variety of audio-visual outputs. Researchers can benefit from using TouchDesigner, by having access to its vast set of tools, which can apply to a variety of disciplines. In addition to being a real-time interactive 2D/3D design tool for visual media with a strong audio toolset, TouchDesigner can be used to interface and communicate with a variety of other applications, including but not limited to physical computing, robotics and lighting.
Participants are encouraged to have the software installed prior to the workshop, but assistance can be provided in case participants install it during the workshop. TouchDesigner and the components required for this workshop are listed below:
- Download TouchDesigner here: https://derivative.ca/
- TouchDesigner at GitHub: https://github.com/torinmb/mediapipe-touchdesigner
- Download Arduino IDE here: https://www.arduino.cc/en/software/
- Date:
- Wednesday, March 18, 2026
- Time:
- 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- LIB 387 - Library Collaboratory
- campus:
- Collaboratory
- Audience:
- Graduate Students
- Categories:
- Create New Knowledge Innovate Software Tools
Please note: Library Collaboratory workshop instructors will not sign attendance forms for courses.
Finding the Library Collaboratory:
The main entrance to the Library Collaboratory is via the SLC Building.
Take the elevator (opposite the main entrance) up to the 3rd floor of the SLC Building.
Exit and turn left: the Library Collaboratory is at the end of the hall, marked with large yellow doors.