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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 such as Resolume and Modul8, as well as hardware including sensors and controllers (both virtual and physical). Topics will include projection mapping, live mixing, live-feed cameras, serial, OSC and MIDI communication and designing multi-projector, immersive environments. We will also explore how to develop a project conceptually as well as production and editing skills to generate your own dynamic video images.

Instructor: Lauren Petty (website)

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elective, special topic, undergrad, undergrad-elective-s25

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 and installation contexts and will regularly develop prototype ideas. Students will learn how to optimize media for real-time performance as well as how to use sensor technology and serial and networking protocols for interaction design. Students will also be exposed to the creative technology industry as a whole through class visits and guest speakers.

Instructor : Melody Loveless

Sample syllabus

class, elective, grad, grad-s25-studio, s25

DM-GY 6103 Live Performance 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 develop performance technologies as part of their research and present them to the group at the end of the semester.
 
Instructors : Josh Goldberg, Rob Ramirez
class, elective, f24, special topic, undergrad

DM-UY 4913 Real Time A/V

Real-Time A/V 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 systems will be discussed and a variety of software will be introduced including Signal Culture Apps, Resolume Avenue, and Max/MSP/Jitter. Experimentation, improvisation, play, and chance operations will be encouraged as students develop the technical and conceptual aspects of their independently driven performance and single-channel video projects. We will also examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected communities of practitioners and created new avenues for web-based performance. The semester will culminate in a student-organized online exhibition of final projects.

Sample Syllabi