Winter Season 2026/27

Winter
SEASON
2026/27

Welcome to another season of quality education in visual programming and experience design!
We offer a curated selection of learning experiences for beginners and intermediate users of TouchDesigner and vvvv.

This winter runs across four classes and the vvvv Intermediates Bundle, set out below, alongside what we are still building for the rest of the season.

Every live session is recorded and stays available. Courses are taught in English unless marked otherwise, and every class comes with Discord access to instructors and peers. We complement this with real human encounters, too — community events, networking and friendship, because we believe in cooperation, not competition.

Classes of Winter 26/27

A fixed group, a fixed weekly slot, and an instructor who knows your project by week three. The TouchDesigner Beginner Class runs from October as a blended course — a video lesson every Wednesday, a live consultation every Tuesday — and hands over to the TouchDesigner Intermediate Class in February. On the vvvv side, Beginner Class I and II take you from first patch to VL development at the same steady weekly pace.

Oct 20, 2026 – Feb 2, 2027

18:00

TouchDesigner Beginner Class Winter 26/27

Nima Gazestani, Daniel Molnar, Vanta Gonzalez

Blended

Beginner Class

Winter 2026/27

Nima Gazestani, with Vanta and Function Store
20 Oct 2026 – 2 Feb 2027
12 lessons released Wed 08:00
13 live consultations Tue 18:00–21:30
winter break — last consultation 15 Dec, course resumes 6 Jan
from €240 Student · €360 Professional · €480 Company

Feb 9 – Mar 30, 2027

18:00

TouchDesigner Intermediate Class Winter 2026/27

Nima Gazestani, Daniel Molnar, Vanta Gonzalez

Live

Intermediate Class

Winter 2026/27

Nima Gazestani, with Vanta and Function Store
9 Feb – 30 Mar 2027
8 × 3h live, Tue 18:00–21:00 Berlin
from €360 Student · €480 Professional · €640 Company

TouchDesigner Starter Bundle

Oct 20, 2026 – Mar 30, 2027 | Save 15%

TouchDesigner Starter Bundle – Winter 26/27

Nima Gazestani, Daniel Molnar, Vanta Gonzalez

20 Oct 2026 – 30 Mar 2027
both classes in one enrolment

from €510 Student · €714 Professional · €952 Company · 15% off booking the classes separately

Includes the TouchDesigner Beginner Class at the Guided level — all 12 lessons plus the weekly live group session — followed by the Intermediate Class. Coaching and Mentoring (the weekly 1:1 consultations) are not part of the bundle — book those two classes separately if you want that.

Book the bundle

Derivative Training Investment Discount – $200 off a TouchDesigner license

Your course investment pays back: $200 off a TouchDesigner license

Spend $600 USD (roughly €550) on TouchDesigner training at The NODE Institute within five months and Derivative gives you $200 USD off a Commercial or Pro license (Regular or Floating Cloud). Our TouchDesigner classes, bundles and professional modules all count towards it. First-time Derivative customers, new licenses only, claim within 30 days.

How to claim it

Oct 19 – Dec 7, 2026 | Monday

18:00

VVVV Beginner Class Part I: Playful Patching

Gabriela Gordillo, Rosi Grillmair

Gabriela Gordillo & Rosi Grillmair · supported by Refik Anadol Studio
19 Oct – 7 Dec 2026
8 × 3h live, Mon 18:00 Berlin
from €160 Student · Part I, Part II or both

Jan 11 – Feb 1, 2027 | Mondays

18:00

VVVV Beginner Class Part II: Foundations of VL Development

Christoph Ignaz Kirmaier

Christoph Ignaz Kirmaier
11 Jan – 1 Feb 2027
4 × 3h live, Mon 18:00 Berlin
Sold with Part I · bookable on its own

vvvv Intermediates Bundle

Nov 10, 2026 – Feb 9, 2027 | Mostly Tuesdays

18:00

VVVV Intermediate Bundle – Winter 2026/27

Randall Vasquez, Simon Weckert, Irwin Quemener, Rosi Grillmair, Seb Escudie, Sebastian Huber, Toby Knyvett

12 sessions · 36 hours
Tuesdays, 18:00 Berlin (one exception)
10 Nov 2026 – 9 Feb 2027
live online

from €442.50 Student · €720 Regular · 20% off the individual courses

Seven courses from instructors who are shipping real work in the field — from GPU shading and 3D math through data-driven visuals and spatial installations to real-world app architecture and the production practices that keep large-scale systems running.

Applied 2D & 3D Math for Creative Coders — Toby Knyvett · 10 + 17 Nov 2026
Driving Particle Systems from Geospatial Data — Rosi Grillmair · 24 Nov 2026
Advanced TextureFX Techniques in vvvv — Irwin Quemener · 1 + 2 Dec 2026
Pixels in Space — Projection Mapping & Immersive Setups — Simon Weckert · 8 + 15 Dec 2026
Let’s Build an App Together — Randall Vásquez, Seb Escudié, Sebastian Huber · 12, 19, 26 Jan 2027
Scaling vvvv Projects — Team Workflows & Git Versioning — Randall Vásquez · 2 Feb 2027
Observe and Monitor your Multi-Client vvvv Installations — Seb Escudié · 9 Feb 2027

Each session is taught live by a different working artist rather than one instructor across twelve weeks — a lineup, not a syllabus, spanning intermediate to advanced vvvv work. Come with the fundamentals in hand, book the full run for the discount, or pick out the sessions that match what you are building.

Book the bundle

In planning for this season

These are real, they are being built, and they are not finished. We would rather show you the season we are actually working on than pretend it is already boxed up — so there are no dates or prices here until they are true. Put your name on the list and you hear first.

TouchDesigner AI Bundle

Working with generative models inside and agents outside of TouchDesigner, built out the way our professional modules are: Foundations to get the pipeline running, Advanced to push it, and Case Study sessions where it goes into a real piece. Curriculum and instructors are being put together now, and we are aiming to run it this winter season.

SEASON

TOUCHDESIGNER

BUNDLE

TouchDesigner System Architecture Bundle

Building TouchDesigner projects that hold up once they leave your machine: file and component structure, reusable tooling, performance under load, multi-machine setups, and what it takes to hand a system to someone else and have it still run. Same shape as the other bundles — Foundations, Advanced and Case Study sessions. Curriculum and instructors are being put together now, aiming for this winter season.

SEASON

TOUCHDESIGNER

BUNDLE

Creative Masterclasses

Weeks of online studio work building toward one real showcase on location — past editions have ended up in a decommissioned power station in Leipzig, a 270° panorama club, a 19-metre geodesic dome and a festival in Bengaluru. Topics and instructors for this winter are being put together now. Look through the previous editions to see what these turn into.

SEASON

MASTERCLASS

Notify me when one opens

All Winter 26/27 courses

The full directory, pulled live from the course database — always current, no maintenance.

Community meetups and events

We complement the online learning with real human encounters, which we think matter more than ever. We believe in cooperation, not competition.

Through the season we run social and networking events in Berlin and on stream — people show what they are building and take questions. Free to attend, usually recorded, and the reason a good half of our students found us in the first place.

All events

Almost every event is live-streamed and stays up afterwards as a recording on our YouTube channel, including The NODE Institute Talks — the backlog of Roundtable and NODE Session talks.

One email when something opens

Subscribe and you hear first about new releases, early-bird pricing, community events, and every course on this page that is still in planning.

Winter Season 2026/27