Have you put your 2022 study plan on the agenda after the New Year’s Day?
Still not arranged? Not sure where to start?
Have you visited GENTLE MONSTER HAUS Shanghai or the sensational SKPS artificial sheepfold from a few years ago in Beijing?
GENTLE MONSTER HAUS Shanghai
SKP-S Beijing
Why not set your first self-study goal for the new year and step back a little from pure digital creation to experience installation art?
[ Installation Art ] ①
Installation Art — Installation Art is a non-functional, decorative physical product. It carries the creator’s agile thoughts and gives the viewer a perception experience that transcends all flat displays, utilizing various influencing parameters in the environment to give the space a strong “interactivity”.
Jason Burge Studio – Scent Constellation3
(Germany) Sven Wenderus < Survival Space >
Jason Burge Studio – Digital Ornithology
[ in Commercials ] ②
In recent years, commercial spaces have frequently utilized art installations to amplify marketing effects. This has allowed more users to enhance their visual impact and aesthetic perception during the shopping process, increasing customer (potential) interest and promoting brand image, products, or services.
GENTLE MONSTER前滩太古里 Shanghai
GENTLE MONSTER HAUS Shanghai
GENTLE MONSTER HAUS Shanghai
Taking the Korean eyewear retail brand GENTLE MONSTER as an example, “through visual innovation, continuously providing consumers with fresh experiences.” It must be said that this strategy, which invests heavily in store displays, has not only made GENTLE MONSTER a luxury brand that breaks the circle but also allowed it to achieve sales of 200 million dollars in 2019. Financial institutions estimate that it will continue to grow at a rate of 3-4 times per year and enter the unicorn brand club of 1 billion dollars.
Of course, GENTLE MONSTER is not the first brand to do this:
‘Ceremonial Formality’ by Frederik Heyman
Hermès window display in Tokyo designed by Tokujin Yoshioka
weSC 2010 window display
Nike Flyknit retail tables for Nike China
NIKE FLYKNIT RETAIL
Zim & Zou-Journey of a Lifetime – window display for Hermès
Major comprehensive commercial entities also frequently update art installations in their spaces, giving customers a refreshing feeling every time they visit the mall:
K11 – MUSEA
Jason Burge Studio – Digital Ornithology
Currently, whether in the art industry or commercial exhibitions, installation art is undoubtedly a hot field.
Friends interested in this field often have infinite creative inspiration and impulses; yet they do not know how these physical installations interact, thus unable to implement a feasible plan for their ideas.
This involves my knowledge blind spot!
Reconstructing a new knowledge system is too slow and difficult!
There are so many devices,
How can I bear the time and financial costs required?
Please break these prejudices!
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Come learn this
Quick to get started
Many hardware options
Low pressure
Interactive installation development course
Developed in collaboration with TEA Community and special media artist Cong Haotian Frank:
Similar course pain points
Arduino advancement is slow memorizing words can only lead to abandon, learning Arduino will always stay at lighting up an LED, from basic knowledge to application creation (somewhat substantial mechanical installations, lighting installations) is a long journey.
Difficulty in combining interactive visuals with hardware There is inspiration for visual creation, but do not know how to link it with physical installations.
High cost of commercial hardware Common TouchDesigner peripherals are mainly commercial hardware, often costing thousands, which puts a lot of budget pressure on individual and small team creations.
Low reference value of courses Some courses lack the function of indexing knowledge points.
Introduction
INTRODUCTION
This course combines TouchDesigner and open-source hardware platforms (such as Arduino development boards, ESP32 development boards), focusing on interactive art installations, including interactive images, creative visuals that perceive the environment and behaviors, understanding various motors to build mechanical installation prototypes, creating VJ interfaces and personal VJ controllers, small interactive lighting installations, etc. No prior knowledge of Arduino or other open-source hardware is required.
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(*Arduino — a microcontroller that can process information and output it as other electrical signals. It can drive stepper motors and sense different physical parameters such as light and heat.)
Contents
CONTENTS
Quickly create interactive images
Build mechanical installations
Design lighting art
Create audio-visual performances
Master software and hardware skills
Exercise artistic technical thinking
Finally realize personal creative projects.
Employment Prospects
PROSPECT
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Independent installation artist
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Wearable interaction designer
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New media art company
Project manager
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Independent installation art curator
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Interactive installation knowledge area blogger
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Multi-module VJ
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Interactive technology development guide
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Interactive lighting designer
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Digital experience studio
Technical execution manager
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Internet of Things project manager
*Of course, creating an art installation can also make your study abroad portfolio stand out among many competitors.
Course Directory
*All images are
Actual photos of course content
CATALOGUE
[ 01 ] Course Introduction
Introducing the course outline, learning methods, and starting with the Arduino platform as a representative of open-source hardware programming.
1.1 Foundation: Course Introduction
1.2 Understanding the basics of open-source hardware
1.3 Getting started with microcontrollers
Course kit actual photos
[ 02 ] Interactive Images
Learn to create creative visuals that perceive the environment and behaviors. Use common sensors, combined with TouchDesigner to complete advanced visual creation (instantiation, feedback loops, geometry and materials, post-processing), allowing visual works to respond to the environment and people.
2.1 Touch Color
Touch Sensor
2.2 Light Interconnection
Light Intensity Sensor
2.3 Interstellar Tunnel
Ultrasonic Sensor
2.4 Cyber Terrain
Three-axis Accelerometer
*The above are all actual course effect photos
[ 03 ] Mechanical Installations
Transitioning from digital to physical, shaping dynamic physical spaces. Understanding various motor core mechanisms of mechanical installations. Building mechanical installation prototypes and using TouchDesigner as a control system to design dynamic installations.
3.1 Wind Control Magic: DC Motor
3.2 Mechanical Pixels: Servo Motor
3.3 Power Transmission: Stepper Motor (optional)
Course kit actual photos
[ 04 ] VJ Interpretation
Audio-visual interpretation, using TouchDesigner as a manufacturing tool to customize a VJ interface and controller that belongs to you, awakening the audience’s retinas with your creative visuals.
4.1 Image Knight
How VJ Works
4.2 Knight Workshop
Homemade VJ Controller
4.3 “Knight Equipment Library”
Build your own VJ interface
4.4 Magic Generation
Audio-visual interaction visuals
*The above are all actual course effect photos
[ 05 ] Lighting Art
From digital pixels to physical pixels, do some interesting light experiments. Understand the new open-source hardware — ESP32 microcontroller, create desktop-level lighting installation prototypes, and learn to map images on the screen to a large number of LEDs, transmitting DMX data wirelessly.
5.1 Light Magic: Controlling Full-color LEDs in Arduino
5.2 Hardware Spells: Getting to Know DMX
5.3 Skill Enhancement: Experiments with Visual Content and Light
Actual photos of course content
[ 06 ] Tracing and Enhancing
From knowing the reason to understanding the reason, simultaneously unlocking some new equipment. Systematically reviewing open-source hardware programming, understanding basic principles, and collecting more software and hardware platforms and reference materials that can serve the creation.
6.1 Like counting treasures: Review of open-source hardware
6.2 “Stable” Learning: Review of TouchDesigner
6.3 Side Egg: In-depth analysis of various tips
Course Format
FORM
Online recorded videos (20 class hours)
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Live communication (5 times)
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Supporting hardware practical operation
1. Full online video course, independent of time and space, learn at your own pace.
2. Set up a class group for the course, teaching assistants will reply at any time, and will collect questions related to the course content regularly and publish them in the group.
3. Each session has 5 live broadcasts on Sundays, where students and mentors share and communicate their weekly learning and creative achievements, and there will even be workshops.
Live schedule
1 / 23
Opening ceremony, releasing the course
1 / 30
Interactive images, live sharing
2 / 06
Mechanical installations, live sharing
2 / 13
VJ interpretation , live sharing
2 / 20
Lighting art, live sharing
2 / 27
End of the study period
The course live broadcasts will be recorded, and the recorded videos and course videos will have a one-year free review period. Customer service will also have a one-year service period.
The first session starts on January 23, 2022 (Sunday) and ends on February 27 (Sunday); after the course, students can continue to watch the course videos and video replays and ask questions in the group, but cannot watch live broadcasts after February 13.
[Study Period] January 23, 2022 (Monday) to February 27, 2022 (Sunday).
Recorded courses can be watched indefinitely
5 live broadcasts on Sundays (1.23, 1.30, 2.6, 2.13, 2.20)
Live broadcasts will be replayed
Check-in sharing to exchange benefits (certificates, textbooks, stickers, canvas bags)
Teaching assistants will organize and answer questions in the group within 48 hours after class
Group interaction among students after class
[Validity Period] January 23, 2022 to January 22, 2023.
Recorded courses can be watched indefinitely
Group interaction among students after class
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“Magic” Equipment Kit
COURSE KIT
This course’s hardware kit is based on our survey of twelve universities, collecting the most practical and user-expected dozens of sensors currently on the market. We also used laser cutting technology to customize some product shells, making it a more complete product kit.
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And this equipment package worth 1299 yuan is given away with the course, only given away, not sold!
(Shipped within three days after payment)
Instructor Introduction
FRANK
Cong Haotian Frank — a media artist working in Shanghai. He is one of the authors of the book “TouchDesigner: A New Interactive Design and Development Platform.” The content of this course is developed in collaboration with TEA Community (TD Asian Community Operations), Digital FUN (New Media Interactive Art Studio) team and instructor Cong Haotian, condensing the efforts of several teachers.
Cong Haotian’s practice and research focus on the artistic exploration of digital media and biological media, aiming to build interdisciplinary communication between art and biotechnology. He has exhibited, curated, and lectured at various art, design, and technology events, including the 2016 Première Vision Exhibition, the 2017 Consciousness Restructuring Conference, the 2018 Songjiang Art Museum exhibition “Out of Control,” the 2019 Linz Electronic Arts Festival in Austria, and the 2020 Shanghai Science and Technology Festival.
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Instructor Cases
Aspects of Her Life
ASPECTS OF HER LIFE
Amphibious
AMPHIBIOS
Immersive Space
Tube Showroom – Boundaryless
Co-Author
THE CO-AUTHOR
Original price ￥5999
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*The event ends before noon on January 23, 2022
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You willGet for Free
YOU WILL GET
A brand new TEA Community custom Arduino hardware set;
Stick to your work check-in, a certificate will be awarded after the course ends, along with a 308 yuan learning gift package. It includes: “TouchDesigner: A New Interactive Design and Development Platform” book, TouchDesigner related stickers, and canvas bags.
TD Canvas Bag
TD Related – Stickers
Completion Certificate
TD Chinese Official Textbook
Pre-course Notice
Is it possible for beginners to learn? Can everyone learn it all?
No prior knowledge of Arduino or other open-source hardware is required. Students with no foundation in TD need to watch the introductory course video on TouchDesigner first. The 2022 completely new introductory tutorial will be available on January 8 for everyone to study for free. A WeChat group for the course will be established, and regular Q&A will be conducted within 48 hours. Live sharing will be based on everyone’s questions every Sunday afternoon.
We also have a TD Asian Community Technical Exchange Group, where you can ask questions at any time~
Disclaimer: The course content description in this article is based on original photos or productions by TEA Community. If you need to quote any course images for non-commercial purposes, please inquire in advance and obtain our permission. Any form of theft outside of this situation will bear corresponding legal responsibilities.
