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DM-UY 4913 Live Media Processing for Performance and Installation

This hands-on studio class will introduce students to the fascinating world of real-time video and audio processing. Using a range of tools, students will build playback systems for live performance and multi-channel media installations. The course is based in Isadora, but we will build expandable systems that can incorporate a variety of generative media programs… Read more DM-UY 4913 Live Media Processing for Performance and Installation

Posted on October 17, 2024October 14, 2025 by Scott Fitzgerald

DM-UY 4913 Motion Capture

This course provides an introduction to motion capture and the virtual production pipelines used to record 3D animation for film, video games and live performance. While using the motion capture studio, students will learn the tools for tracking performers, cameras, and props. Students develop concepts around the technology and integrate their motion capture data and… Read more DM-UY 4913 Motion Capture

Posted on October 17, 2024October 14, 2025 by Scott Fitzgerald

DM-UY 4193 Hybrid Visual Identity: Design and Application

This course is an advanced, project-based experimental design studio with parallel discussions of readings and critical theories in contemporary visual culture and visual identity creation. Students will devise and construct a visual identity (brand) for an imagined persona, collective or organization, then (as a class, communally, collaboratively) design an application of their brand in the… Read more DM-UY 4193 Hybrid Visual Identity: Design and Application

Posted on October 17, 2024October 14, 2025 by Scott Fitzgerald

DM-UY 4193 Dark Patterns

“Dark patterns,” malicious uses of good design practices, manipulate and trick users into following UX flows to increase spending and reduce data privacy. Students will identify the design practices at play in dark patterns, design their own manipulative interfaces, and implicate the ethics of UX design practices in a corporatized digital landscape. This course will… Read more DM-UY 4193 Dark Patterns

Posted on October 17, 2024March 20, 2025 by Scott Fitzgerald

DM-UY 4193 Designing the Post Natural

This design studio explores the post natural environments we now inhabit and asks how we might design ways of paying better attention to their shifting dynamics. Through a series of projects that engage with digital technologies, we will probe opportunities to amplify our daily environmental encounters and ecological entanglements. Course readings will introduce different theoretical… Read more DM-UY 4193 Designing the Post Natural

Posted on October 17, 2024December 2, 2024 by Scott Fitzgerald

DM-UY 4193 3D For AR

In this course, students will learn how to create original content for Augmented Reality (AR) experiences. Far too often, found and premade assets are used in AR experiences. Having to rely on other people’s creations waters down a creators vision and may completely break a user’s experience. AR has the potential to engage an individual’s… Read more DM-UY 4193 3D For AR

Posted on October 17, 2024February 25, 2025 by Scott Fitzgerald

DM-UY 4193 Problem Solving Through XR

Together, we will unpack the definition of XR and speculate what future applications of extended reality could look like. We will learn to pitch ideas for both creative and professional applications of XR and prototype these ideas using low tech web based methods. The first half of the class will focus on 3D asset creation… Read more DM-UY 4193 Problem Solving Through XR

Posted on October 17, 2024October 14, 2025 by Scott Fitzgerald

DM-UY 4913 Data Visceralization

This is a hands-on, project based studio course that pushes beyond typical notions of data visualization, examining ways that data can be transformed into embodied experiences. Students will engage with techniques in physical computing, haptic technologies and VR towards the creation of a series of unconventional data visualizations. Each project will interpret dynamic data sets,… Read more DM-UY 4913 Data Visceralization

Posted on October 17, 2024October 14, 2025 by Scott Fitzgerald

DM-GY 4913 Advanced Creative Coding

In this course, students will refine and build on the skills from their Creative Coding course while learning how to work with media – sound, image, video, 3D assets, text, and other data – in real time using the visual programming environment Max. Students will learn to develop interactive and generative media software for performance… Read more DM-GY 4913 Advanced Creative Coding

Posted on October 17, 2024October 21, 2024 by Scott Fitzgerald

DM-UY 4153 Experimental Game Narratives

How do games tell stories? How can we move beyond the traditional narrative in games? Is there a more holistic approach that embeds the story deeply into the interaction? In this class, students will begin to answer these questions by analyzing games and developing their own experimental narrative games. Prerequisite: DM-UY 2153 instructor : Toni Pizza… Read more DM-UY 4153 Experimental Game Narratives

Posted on October 17, 2024October 21, 2024 by Scott Fitzgerald