The NODE Institute

Learn weekly during Winter Season 2024

In pursuit of the best quality education for visual programming, we have curated several learning experiences for Beginner and Intermediate users of TouchDesigner and VVVV. Weekly sessions, held online by experienced instructors, designed to unlock new skills complementary to work and studies.

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Institute for applied creative computation

The NODE Institute empowers the creative software community to share knowledge and grow. By hosting user meetups, workshops, webinars and online courses, the Institute functions as a hub for creatives at the intersection of art and technology.

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Learn the all new vvvv gamma.

Here are the recordings from NODE20! Beyond Sound and Visual, Introduction to Computer Vision, Machine Learning in vvvv, Generative Design Algorithms, Machine Learning with RunwayML, Audible Data and many more...

THE NODE20 WORKSHOP BUNDLE

Programming for Artists, Designers and Performers.

Play today with the technologies that shape tomorrow. Visual programming makes interactive technology accessable to artists, designers and musicians. Learn how to connect sensors, actors, music, lights, motors, 3D animations, projection mapping, lasers, particles, shaders, data bases and the internet into interactive installations and performances.

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Online and offline Courses, Webinars and Meetups

Learn from experienced professionals, collaborate with like minded creatives or become an instructor yourself? It is our mission to accelerate the exchange of knowledge inside the community and open pathways for new members.

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Learn all year
like it was NODE

The NODE Institute extends the famous workshop program of the NODE Forum for Digital Arts over the whole year and into the virtual realm. By the way, the last edition of NODE happened in October 2020!

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VVVV

vvvv equips you with visual object-oriented programming. Extend your node menu with any .NET library. Anything you need for your interactive installations.

TOUCHDESIGNER

TouchDesigner is a visual development platform that equips you with the tools you need to create stunning realtime projects and rich user experiences.

VVVV AND TOUCHDESIGNER PROGRAM

Our Winter Season is here

We launch our Winter Season with Beginners classes open for enrollment. All workshops are held by experienced instructors are designed to unlock new skills complementary to work and studies.

Winter SEASON - Starting November 4

VVVV Beginners Class

WINTER SEASON - STARTING OCTOBER 8

TouchDesigner
Beginners Class

WINTER SEASON - COMING SOON

VVVV
Professional

Weekly online sessions diving into the world of visual programming with VVVV. The course explores specific techniques and workflows, empowering participants to get started with their own projects in minimum time.

WINTER SEASON - Starting october 16

TouchDesigner Professional

13 intense modules over 14 weekly online lessons, led by experienced instructors, each of them experts in their own right, are structured to help you acquire valuable and specific skills that will enhance your work and studies.

Asynchronous evergreens

Video Courses

Asynchronous video courses are suited perfectly to offer students a structured learning path through their lessons in a self paced style. We are constantly adding new courses, often topics where we see users struggling with.

35 - 140 EUR

SS23 – VVVV – Game Logic

Learn the fundamentals for creating interactive games in vvvv.

35 - 140 EUR

SS23 – VVVV – Working with REST APIs

We will discover how to wrap a REST API to a useful vvvv nodeset to use in our projects.

35 - 140 EUR

SS23 – VVVV – Soundreactive Graphics

Learn how to retrieve live sound values and how to apply them to your vvvv graphics.

70 - 280 EUR

SS23 – VVVV – Sequencing values on a Timeline using the Kairos library

Sequencing values on a Timeline using the Kairos library

35 - 140 EUR

SS23 – VVVV – MiDi & Sequencing tools

Get familiar with MiDi controllers, MiDi messages and the building blocks of a sequencer.

Free

Machine Learning for Interaction Designers

This workshop is for interaction designers who work with the visual programming environment vvvv. The online workshop by Seb Escudié will introduce you to tools enabling you to leverage machine learning capabilities in your own vvvv patches.

ABOUT

Background

The NODE Institute aims to provide a home for the visual programming communities.

We work together with the Frankfurt based NODE Forum for Digital Arts and provide continuous learning opportunities between the festival editions.

We are dedicated to the exchange of knowledge and inspiration. We organise workshops and webinars and host user meetings for the VVVV, TouchDesigner, Cables and other creative communities in our studio in Berlin and worldwide through online participation of the same.

We connect educators with students, clients with experts, problems with solutions.

Learn more about our consulting services here!

Networking

Let’s be honest. If you do what we do, you do it because you love it. And that’s what makes it so rewarding to meet likeminded people that dedicate their talents to explore the borderlands of art, technology, performance and programming.

To enjoy each other’s company, to share inspiration, to come up with new projects, to help each other out and to chat about something completely different.

We enjoy facilitating these encounters, live in our studio in Berlin and worldwide.

Education

Our mission is to complement the great wealth of user-generated tutorials with an organised learning path suited for professionals.

As a platform we connect students and educators in a way that benefits both.

Educators can spend more time on creating learning materials and help students when they get paid.

Students will be able to acquire certificates, backed up by industry professionals that actually mean something when looking for a job.

Collaboration

United we stand, divided we fall.

We don’t believe in competition. We believe that great talents will want to create great work together and make a living. That works better together than against each others.

Call us hippies if you want, but we want to contribute to a world where people respect each others work and viewpoints and help each other to grow. Where people think critically about the state of the world, their work and our common future.