TouchDesigner is a visual development platform that equips you with the tools you need to create stunning realtime projects and rich user experiences.
December 12th 2024 : introducing a new format
In collaboration with Studio1111, we invite renowned artists to present their work inside the Studio’s unique projection cave, a destination redefining art, space, music, and community in the 21st century. The first edition featured Robert Seidel, a pioneer of digital and abstract filmmaking with more than 20 years of groundbreaking work. In a retrospective screening moderated by NODE’s Harshini J. Karunaratne, we journeyed through key milestones of Seidel’s creative universe, fostering dialogue between the artist and the community.
The evening concluded with an experimental audio-visual performance: Markus Popp, working under the pseudonym OVAL was accompanied by Stefan Kraus (MXZEHN), who reimagined Seidel’s visuals in a transformative live remix, creating a space- and time-bending experience.
To commemorate the exhibition and add a physical dimension to the intangible digital artworks presented, The NODE Institute is issuing a limited edition of 12 exclusive A2 (420 × 594 mm) prints, signed by Robert Seidel.
The prints feature several 3D objects, that Robert Seidel has used in some of the films that have been part of the screening during NODE Gallery Night. Those objects have been unwrapped and sorted to create the graphic elements of the print that has been manufactured with love in yellow and turquoise on one of the few A2 Riso machines in Europe (and the only one currently working) at Drucken3000 in Berlin on Munken Print White 150 gsm paper.
Education for experience design
Our Winter Season 24/25 is running and as all lessons are recorded, you can join any course, any time. All courses are held by experienced instructors are designed to unlock new skills complementary to work, research and studies.
Weekly online sessions, carefully crafted to introduce you the world of visual programming with VVVV. The course explores basic techniques and workflows, empowering participants to get started with their own projects in minimum time.
12 online lessons, carefully crafted to introduce you the world of visual programming with TouchDesigner. The course explores basic techniques and workflows, empowering participants to get started with their own projects in minimum time.
WINTER SEASON - NEW TRACK
With NODE TOOLKIT we introduce a third track into our education program, that features tools that we find useful in the context of immersive and interactive performances and installations. Working with industry leading experts, we have created a series of courses, that have the potential to drastically enhance your workflow. Meet Cables, Comfy UI, Chataigne, Wekinator and Spatial Audio.
WINTER SEASON - JOIN NOW
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
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.
Explore the full potential of VL.Fuse, the most advanced open-source library built for GPU-accelerated programming in vvvv gamma.
Learn the fundamentals for creating interactive games in vvvv.
We will discover how to wrap a REST API to a useful vvvv nodeset to use in our projects.
Learn how to retrieve live sound values and how to apply them to your vvvv graphics.
Sequencing values on a Timeline using the Kairos library
Get familiar with MiDi controllers, MiDi messages and the building blocks of a sequencer.
ABOUT
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.
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.
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.
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.
