🎨✨ Beginner TouchDesigner Workshop

New to TouchDesigner? This beginner-friendly technical workshop is your gateway into the world of visual programming and generative art! Walk away with a solid understanding of the software — and your very first generative artwork! 🖥️🎛️

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🧑‍💻 What You'll Learn

• Navigating the TouchDesigner interface
• Building and managing node networks
• Working with operator families
• Creating your own generative artwork from scratch

⚠️ Note: This workshop covers similar techniques to the first session. If you've already attended, some content may feel familiar — it could serve as a great review, or you might want to wait for the upcoming intermediate workshop instead.

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💾 Come Prepared!

Download TouchDesigner before attending:
👉 derivative.ca/download

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👨‍🎨 About the Instructor — Andrew Butcher

Andrew Butcher is a computational and new media artist, as well as a creative technologist deeply embedded in the Bay Area TouchDesigner community. He teaches workshops across the East Bay and serves as the current Artist in Residence at California College of the Arts.

Andrew's practice investigates how technology reshapes our perception of space and human connection — through interactive installations, audiovisual performances, and video games. His work dives into themes of world-building, speculative generative design, and the manipulation of scale.

Using generative software, machine learning, and custom code, he reimagines classical artistic themes — light, space, form, color — through a contemporary technological lens.

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🏛️ About tiat ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖

tiat lives at the intersection of art and technology — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to empowering creative technologists to experiment, exhibit, and evolve their practice.

They have their own gallery space in Union Square — come by to experience the art & tech community in person!

• 🌐 Website: tiat.place
• 📸 Instagram: @tiat.place
• 🎟️ More events: luma.com/tiat