This course will be an intensive orientation to the technical tools and skills required to design and produce interactive and real-time media for performance, installation, broadcast, and other formats, with a conceptual emphasis on the ways in which computer software and hardware can be used as a tool. We will explore the ways in which cyber-physical systems that combine real-world inputs (microphones, cameras, sensors), computational resources (3D engines, databases, machine learning), and outputs (screens, loudspeakers, physical outputs such as lights) can be combined into novel combinations. Along the way, we will make brief sketches in a variety of formats towards a final project. We will be working in a hybrid toolkit using Max/MSP as well as tools such as Ableton Live, Touch Designer, and the Unreal Engine.

Instructors: Luke DuBois, Todd Reynolds