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Mediascrapes: tools for a shared design in TouchDesigner — by Marta Maglio and Giacomo Baccega

From 07/10/2025 to 15/11/2025

The workshop cycle, a theoretical-practical hybrid, includes 4 online monothematic modules (divided into two lessons each), which can be used individually or as a whole, and a workshop in presence, which can also be used independently of the online cycle.

The four modules, each divided into two weekly meetings, explore themes and techniques in TouchDesigner, software for interactive audiovisual design, dotted with theoretical and methodological ideas. The following are covered: Data visualization and procedural graphic design, Motion tracking applied to the performative field, Sound reactivity and Visual and finally AI, Storytelling and Videomaking.

The in-person workshop is in continuity with these meetings, intertwining themes and techniques, and introduces the practices and technologies to develop an interspecies and posthuman narrative. Furthermore, the use of hardware is explored in depth, using sensors, Arduino and Kinect, and encouraging participatory discussion and applied experimentation.

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Activities

  • Workshop Online Program

    1 Module: Data Visualization and Procedural Graphic Design (7 and 9 Oct., 19.30–21.30)
    - Introduction to the interface and node types in TouchDesigner;
    - Management of data flows (in real time and from databases);
    - Design of parametric and procedural graphics;
    - Use of data as material for visual generation;
    - Implementation of generative processes in TouchDesigner.

    2 Module: Motion Tracking and Performative Design (14 and 16 Oct., 19.30–21.30)
    - Integration between performance and event-based programming;
    - Motion tracking techniques and real-time movement analysis;
    - Use of Mediapipe in TouchDesigner;
    - Techniques for translating physical gesture into digital signal.

    3 Module: Sound Reactivity (21 and 23 Oct., 19.30–21.30)
    - Relationship between audio and image and application contexts (video clips, AV performances, DJ sets);
    - Analysis of input sound data for visual generation;
    - Development of interactive audio-visual experiences;
    - Translation of sound into generative visual stimuli.

    4 Module: AI, Storytelling and Videomaking (4 and 6 Nov., 19.30–21.30)
    - Artificial intelligence methodologies and tools for the production of static and animated visual content;
    - Introduction to the main AI models used in the creative sector;
    - Prompting techniques for the generation of images and videos;
    - In-depth study of the use of StreamDiffusion integrated in TouchDesigner.
  • In-person Workshop Program

    5. Synesthesia for Non-Humans (Recontemporary, Nov. 15, 10–17)
    - Storytelling for non-humans: Practices and technologies for an interspecies and posthuman narrative;
    - Introduction to the use of microcontrollers, Arduino and sensors;
    - “Circuit bending”, electronics and Kinect, how to re-employ obsolete technologies.

Costs

- 1 Online Module (2 lessons of 2hours each): 50€
- Online modules package (8 lessons di 2hours each): 160€
- In-person Workshop (6hours): 75€
- Full package (online + in-person workshop): 220€

Infos

Mode: Hybrid
Language: Italian
(Min. Max. online 10-20, Min. Max. in presence 6-12)
Pre requirements: A minimum propensity for multimedia languages ​​but no previous knowledge is required.

Reserve your spot

Write us at info@recontemporary.com

Embodied Interface

Embodied Interface was born in early 2022 from the intersection of common research interests and artistic practice, influenced by posthuman studies and driven by the desire to structure spaces of sharing and speculation on human, technological and interspecies co-becoming. The collective was born following collaborations that began during the common course of studies at Naba in Milan during the master's degree obtained by both in New Technologies of Art and continued following the same in various collaborations.