Optimized Workflow for Live Visuals
July 30th, 2025
Wednesday, 6-9 PM, Berlin Time
1 lessons at 3 hours in English Language live via Zoom, or as recording
Recordings are available and accessible for at least one year after purchase.
In this course, ungrid will provide an inside look into their approach to preparing, organizing, and performing live visual shows. From organizing content efficiently to designing seamless playback systems, you’ll gain practical insights into the technical and creative aspects of VJing.
A key focus of the course is optimizing computational performance without sacrificing usability. ungrid will share their custom tools and workflows, built to be straightforward, reusable, and intuitive, ensuring that artists can focus on creativity rather than getting lost in complex setups. Whether you’re looking to refine your live performance workflow or develop your own VJ tools, this course will provide valuable techniques to enhance your practice.
What You’ll Learn:
Building a Live Visuals Workflow
Learn how to structure and prepare your visuals for smooth, real-time performances.
Optimizing Computational Performance
Discover techniques to maximize TouchDesigner’s efficiency while maintaining high-quality visuals.
Playback & Control Strategies
Master different methods for triggering and manipulating visuals in a live setting.
Developing Custom VJ Tools
Explore ungrid’s approach to creating intuitive, reusable, and adaptable tools for live shows.
Creative Problem-Solving for Performance Art
Learn how to streamline your workflow to focus on artistic expression rather than technical roadblocks.
Requirements
This module is made for participants, who have a basic understanding of TouchDesigner. If you just getting started, please visit our Beginners Course first.
- A recent PC or MAC Computer (discrete GPU recommended)
with stable internet connection - The latest build of TouchDesigner installed
- 3-Button Mouse recommended
- MIDI Controller recommended
About the Instructors
ungrid is a Berlin-based live visual collective founded in 2024 by Yuna Fleig, Oliver Skowronek, and Lukas Ruoff. Their work is dedicated to empowering music, atmosphere, and culture through live, reactive, and interactive visuals. With years of experience performing at clubs and festivals, as well as crafting tour visuals for bands, they have developed an extensive visual library, a range of custom-built tools, and optimized workflows tailored for live performance.
instagram.com/ungrid
Lukas Ruoff is a VJ, motion designer, and lecturer specializing in TouchDesigner to craft immersive, audio-reactive live shows. His work blends futuristic, data-driven, and glitch aesthetics with a fascination for uncanny visuals and technoid sounds. By layering intricate textures with bold graphical overlays, he creates compositions that seamlessly integrate stage design and visuals. Driven by the challenge of matching the sound, energy and tempo shifts of live performances, Lukas builds complex, highly adaptable visual systems.
Oliver Skowronek is a Berlin-based visual artist, designer, and creative technologist. With roots in graphic design and painting, he got into generative systems and real-time graphics—drawn by their unpredictability and the potential to build living, responsive visuals that invite exploration through play and construction. His work focuses on creating modular tools in TouchDesigner that support live performance—systems that move with the music, not just alongside it. Balancing computational clarity with an intuitive sense of form, he explores how structure can become a playground for rhythm, texture, and light.
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