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 course will explore the possibilities of audio and video compositing, manipulation, and analysis in dataflow (or datastream) environments like Max and TouchDesigner with an eye towards interactive installations and real-time applications. These environments treat media differently than traditional functional programming languages, offering unique possibilities for experimentation and creative output. Integration with other tools like environmental… Read more DM-UY 4913 Dataflow: Boxes and Lines
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
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
This course introduces IDM students to contemporary techniques and issues in audio, sound and musical research. The class covers digital and analog signal processing, synthesis, musical informatics and interaction design as it applies to contemporary music production, post-production and live performance. The course will focus on work in Max/MSP for a variety of contexts (including… Read more DM-GY 6113 Sound Studio
This course introduces students to contemporary digital performance techniques and issues, i.e., integrating computing technology into traditional performing arts. Drawing on contemporary research in performance studies, as well as technical advances in performing-arts production design, students perform research on how digital technology and media are integrated into dance, theater, performance art and concert-music performance. Students… Read more DM-GY 6103 Live Performance Studio
This course introduces students to the history, theory, and practice of live audiovisual signal processing for experimental media art performance. Through readings, lectures, screenings, discussions, technical instruction, and visiting artists, students will learn how early experiments by video artists and toolmakers have developed, through the years, into contemporary praxis. Hardware-based, analog video systems will be… Read more DM-UY 4913 Real Time A/V
Analog Heaven is an experimental sound class that looks at the history, theory, and techniques behind using electricity to make sound. We will be working with technologies ranging from simple analog circuits to professional-quality synthesizers, as well as digital systems inspired by – or designed in contrast to – these circuits. Along the way we… Read more DM-UY 4913 Analog Heaven
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… Read more DM-GY 6013 Production Studio