TouchDesigner Meetup – “Into the Wild” Projections and Installations in Nature
Tribe start time
2025-04-01 18:00:00Starts on: 01/04/2025 17:00 London time
Membership plan: Just Curious | Topics: Visual Arts
Course overview
TouchDesigner Meetup - Into the wild
Join the meetup on Discord
As part of our ongoing series of bi-monthly TouchDesigner meetups, this session explores the theme of Into the Wild, showcasing how hi-tech installation work and nature can be blended together to create unique new synergies and inspiring interactions. Here you have the opportunity to learn and connect with some of the world’s top TouchDesigner experts while connecting with other enthusiasts.
The format of these online events is a presentation given by one or more TouchDesigner users, followed by a Q&A session. All TouchDesigner meetups happen bi-monthly on the first Tuesday of the month. Attendance is free and the meetups are hosted on Discord.
Meggie Weinheimer asks, ‘What happens when LEDs are freed from controlled environments and placed into the wild?’ with a presentation that explores how site-specific light installations embrace unpredictability through real-time creation, experimentation, and collaboration with natural entities, Meggie states that ‘rather than imposing structure onto a space, my work engages in a dialogue with it, shaped by its form, movement, and rhythms.’
Meanwhile, Ildar Iakubov proudly boasts of being one of the ‘inventors of the world's most effective solutions to ruin your outdoor vacation’. He will dive into the best practices of transforming any serene natural landscape into a full-blown production site: complete with tangled cables, unpredictable power issues, and the thrill of debugging in the wilderness!
Finally, Kohui - who is inspired by natural phenomena, forms, and processes - will give a presentation on "Translating Natural State” where he will share why he seeks direct encounters with nature and how he perceives it, reflecting on his approach to creation and the role of technology in shaping the relationship between nature, humans, and the digital world.
This 2025 series is curated by Bileam Tschepe, aka elekktronaut, a Berlin-based artist and educator who creates audio-reactive, interactive and organic digital artworks, systems and installations in TouchDesigner, collaborating with and teaching people worldwide.
TouchDesigner is a software product from Derivative (Toronto and Los Angeles) which is used to build interactive 3D and 2D applications. It is "procedural", "node-based", real-time and is considered a visual programming language. It is designed to give its users enormous flexibility in building applications without needing to program in a conventional way.
TouchDesigner is free to use for non-commercial purposes.
Speakers & presentations
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Meggie Weinheimer / Reinterpreting Space: Light experiments in natural environments
Meggie Weinheimer, a Brooklyn-based artist and technologist, unites light, sound, and spatial design to create large-scale light installations, audio-visual experiences, and site-specific artworks. Her practice merges computational precision with a responsive, hands-on approach to explore the boundaries of form and space. By translating rhythm and movement into visual language, she shapes sensory dialogues that echo the structure and flow of sound. Through continuous experimentation and real-time creation, she engineers each piece to harmonize light, form, and kinetics, embracing the impermanence of each site-specific installation.
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Ildar Iakubov / How to ruin your outdoor vacation
Ildar Iakubov is an artist, curator and educator working in the field of new media since 2009. His work was exhibited at major festivals and exhibitions such as CTM Berlin, Ars Electronica Linz and InSonic ZKM Karlsruhe. Founder of a media art cooperative kargat.stuido. Currently employed as a creative director in GCC based event agency.
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Kohui / Translating natural state
Kohui explores relationships connected to sound through the act of sensing it. Observing natural phenomena, forms, and methods, he constructs algorithms that create relationships between predictability and unpredictability. He reconstructs these relationships, expanding how sound is perceived and shaping perspectives on nature, humanity, and sound. He has presented audiovisual performances at WeSA Festival, ACT Festival, SICMF, MUTEK Montreal, and MUTEK X INSCAPE and exhibited in group shows at the National Asia Culture Center, Seoul Museum of Art, Platform-L, and Dialog(). He was selected as a HYUNDAI ZER01NE Creator in 2022 and co-founded the artist collective TAKA. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Korea National University of Arts.
Join Meetup
- Tuesday, April 1st 2025 - Discord Link
Requirements
Berlin Code of Conduct
We ask all participants to read and follow the Berlin Code of Conduct and contribute to creating a welcoming environment for everyone.
Course schedule
Meet your instructor
Bileam Tschepe aka elekktronaut is a Berlin based artist and educator who creates audio-reactive, interactive and organic digital artworks, systems and installations in TouchDesigner, collaborating with and teaching people worldwide.
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