VVVV BeginneRS PART I
Playing with VVVV
WINTER 2024/5

PART I – Playing with VVVV

November 4th 2024 until December 16th 2024 6-9 PM (Berlin time)
Online Lessons via Zoom / In English Language
6 modules at three hours each
Always on Mondays

Every lesson will be available as a recording the day after the live lesson and for one year after purchase.

Course Overview

Part I of our VVVV beginner class is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in creative coding and interactive media. This beginner-friendly course introduces you to VVVV’s visual programming environment through hands-on projects and playful exploration. Over six sessions, you’ll learn how to build interactive visuals, animations, and audio-reactive compositions—all without needing prior programming experience.

We’ll cover the basics of 2D and 3D graphics, the rendering pipeline, audio visualization, and even touch on more advanced topics like shaders and algorithms. By the end of the course, you’ll have the skills and confidence to start building your own interactive installations or performances.

Why Enroll?

Course Curriculum

1. Interface and Drawing Basics – November 4, 2024
Get familiar with VVVV’s visual programming interface and learn how to create your first patches. This session will introduce you to basic drawing techniques, including shapes, lines, and colors, helping you build your first visual outputs.

2. The 3D Rendering Pipeline – November 11, 2024
Move into the world of 3D graphics as we explore the fundamentals of the 3D rendering pipeline. You’ll learn how to create and manipulate 3D objects, setting the stage for creating interactive 3D worlds and installations.

3. Textures & Audio Visualization – November 18, 2024
This session focuses on applying textures to objects and creating audio-reactive visuals. You’ll discover how to use sound data to drive visual changes in real-time, opening up possibilities for audiovisual installations and performances.

4. Collections & Iterations – December 2, 2024
Learn how to work with collections of data and iterate through them to create complex visuals. This session covers essential programming concepts like loops and collections, enabling you to generate patterns, sequences, and dynamic compositions.

5. Animation & Algorithms – December 9, 2024
Discover how to bring your creations to life with animation. You’ll learn different animation techniques and explore how to use algorithms to generate more sophisticated movements and behaviors, from simple oscillations to more complex procedural animations.

6. Shaders & Advanced 3D – December 16, 2024
In the final session, we’ll take a deeper dive into advanced 3D graphics and shaders. You’ll learn how to use shaders to create dynamic visual effects and manipulate 3D environments, rounding out your skills to start building more complex interactive projects.

Good to know

⇒ There is no prior knowledge of vvvv needed.
⇒ We will meet online via Zoom. The URLs will be shared within the sessions of this course.
⇒ vvvv runs on Windows only. Please connect to Zoom with a Windows machine.
⇒ Make sure you have a 3 button mouse attached.
⇒ Recordings of the live sessions will be accessible only for the participants for their personal review.
⇒ The class will happen if we have 10 or more participants.
⇒ We recommend connecting to a second monitor screen if possible.

YOUR Instructors

Christoph Ignaz Kirmaier aka chk is a musician, multimedia artist, educator and co-founder of the Vienna and Berlin based Studio 3e8. In the past years he has worked all across large-scale corporate multimedia installations, sound design, generative graphics, electronics, animation, music videos, user experience and robotic prototypes in several companies, bands and collectives. Christoph is teaching vvvv at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten in the course of the master digital design, and is currently also studying himself at the Tangible Music Lab in Linz in the master programme Postdigital Lutherie.

Four sessions will be taken over by Rosi Grillmair aka remony, artist and coding/”node”ing – nerd as well as long term vvvv community member. She is an excellent educator in the field of interactive media, community driven programming tools and artistic installations. Her sessions are a mix of playful lectures, hands-on tutorials and enough time for your questions and in-depth discussions.

Flexible Pricing

As with all our courses, we offer three pricing categories to accommodate the different economic value this course can have to different participants. Be fair and respect our work and the instructors by doing the right thing! Assess your situation and choose which ticket is right for you.

– Student & Hobbyist
You are currently studying or want to learn vvvv for personal reasons that are not related to your source of income.

– Professional
You are working professionally as a self employed or freelancing person and want to learn vvvv to advance your career and win new customers by expanding your skills.
Maybe you work as an employee in another field, but want to qualify yourself for new challenges, yet your company is not supporting you on this path.

– Company*
You are employed with or are running a company that will leverage the new skills acquired in their work with clients. You want to further qualify your employees and support them on their learning path.

*Corporate Responsibility
When you purchase a Company seat, you not only provide access for yourself or your employee, but you also support a participant from a developing country or someone in financial need who otherwise couldn’t afford the course. Each company ticket includes a scholarship for someone to benefit from this opportunity.

Student – 6 Modules at 35 EUR each = 210 EUR / BUY NOW!
Professional – 6 Modules at 70 EUR each = 420 EUR / BUY NOW!
Company – 6 Modules at 120 EUR each = 720 EUR / BUY NOW!

Get 15% off when buying the complete VVVV Beginners Bundle including Part I and Part II

Any Questions? – Get in contact!

Email: info@thenodeinstitute.org