In this course, students will critically investigate emerging AI-powered tools through hands-on experimentation and creative misuse. We’ll explore the use of tools like RunwayML, ComfyUI, and micro open-source platforms, as well as how to break, combine, and repurpose them in ways that serve our unique creative voices. This class asks if it’s possible to treat… Read more DM-UY 4913 Experimenting with AI Tools for Creative Practice
This course will be a hands-on exploration of how to use sensors, microprocessors and other forms of input for making and performing interactive music & art. We will cover how to program a microcontroller (Arduino), how to attach sensors, and both theoretical and practical ideas regarding how to creatively and effectively use sensor data in… Read more DM-UY 4913 Creating Controllers for Live Performance
In this studio-based course, students will learn about and apply various protocols for controlling digital lighting for interactive, expressive, sculptural objects. While light-based art goes back centuries, the last few decades has seen an explosion of tools for creative output using various electric lighting fixtures and technologies. In addition to the technical aspects of control,… Read more DM-UY 4913 Crafting With Light
This class is a survey course to live coding methodologies, artists, and techniques and introduces live coding as an interdisciplinary approach to making work. Live coding is a performance practice that involves real-time composition, usually with the use of computer programming. It often manifests as the practice of writing code with a programming language in… Read more DM-UY 4913 Live Coding
Agile Product Design is a 14-week, hands-on course where students learn how UX design and product management come together to create meaningful, user-centered products. The course begins with two weeks of foundations in agile practices, inclusive design, and team collaboration. From there, students work in cross-functional teams to complete six two-week sprints, moving through discovery,… Read more DM-UY 4913 Agile Product Design
What happens when the power goes out, the internet drops, or food supply chains break down? Communities that can design their own systems (whether for energy, food, or communication) are stronger, safer, and more creative. This course introduces you to community technologies: practical tools and infrastructures that help people adapt and thrive in times of… Read more DM-UY 4913 Engineering Resilience: Community Technologies & Infrastructures of Care
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
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
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
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