TouchDesigner Beginner Class
Introduction to TouchDesigner for New Media Art
Eligibility: Beginner friendly
About Touch Designer Beginner Classes
Learn the essential building blocks of TouchDesigner — a powerful, flexible platform for new-media art, installations, and audio-reactive visuals. In this beginner course, you’ll explore the core operators, create dynamic visuals from the ground up, and build a clear foundation for approaching interactive and immersive projects.
What You Will Learn
Dive into the world of generative and interactive visuals with TouchDesigner, guided by Bileam Tschepe (aka Elekktronaut), a seasoned audiovisual artist and educator. This beginner-friendly course is designed for artists, designers, and creative technologists eager to explore new media, audio-reactive visuals, and immersive installations.
Through hands-on exercises and creative experimentation, you’ll learn the core building blocks of TouchDesigner, including operators, workflows, and the platform’s visual programming approach. Under Bileam’s guidance, you’ll gain the confidence to generate dynamic visuals, connect different types of data, and experiment with audio and interactivity in your projects.
The course emphasizes practical learning: you’ll develop your own sketches and projects, receiving personalized feedback and support along the way. You’ll also explore how TouchDesigner handles 2D and 3D content, work with audio signals, and discover the principles behind interactive systems, giving you the tools to bring your ideas to life.
By the end of the course, you’ll have a solid foundation in TouchDesigner, a clear understanding of its possibilities, and the skills to start your own generative, audio-reactive, or interactive projects.
Meet Your Instructor
Bileam is a Berlin based artist and educator creating audio-reactive, interactive and organic digital artworks, systems and installations in TouchDesigner. He studied Interaction Design at the School Of Popular Arts in Berlin and graduated in 2020. Bileam has been using TouchDesigner since 2019 and began to record and share tutorials soon after. His tutorials have become very popular and are considered as the pathway into visual programming for a whole new generation. He has taught at the SOPA Berlin, the HAWK Hildesheim, and hosts workshops as well as the monthly TouchDesigner meetups on Music Hackspace. Bileam is doing freelance and commission work all over the world, ranging from simple projects such as album covers and short audiovisual clips to physical interactive installations, music videos and live performances. Apart from design and coding, Bileam has always been making music - first with instruments such as the guitar, piano or violin, and now mostly with Ableton Live.
Course Highlights
Get an industry valued certificate from The NODE Institute, Berlin
35+ hours of guided touchdesigner exploration
Participants registered for this workshop will have access to the two-day conference and The Sixth Sense Festival
Build a strong foundation in TouchDesigner for new-media and immersive art
Understand core operators, workflows, and visual programming
Create generative and audio-reactive visuals from scratch
Explore 2D, 3D, and interactive systems
Touchdesigner System Requirements
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
• Windows 10 / Windows 11
• Video RAM: 4GB minimum, 8GB+ recommended
Nvidia GPUs
• Nvidia GeForce 1000-series or better
• Nvidia Quadro/RTX Pascal series or better
• Requires Driver 530.00 or newer.
• Driver 581.00 or later recommended
AMD GPUs
• AMD Radeon 5000 series or better (RDNA architecture GPUs)
Intel Integrated GPUs
• Intel 500 and newer GPUs (not the 5000, 6000 series)
• Not all features are supported on Intel’s integrated GPUs
• 3 button mouse or 2 button mouse with scrollwheel
• SSD drive recommended for movie playback
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
• macOS 13 (Ventura) or higher
• Mac Pro / iMac / Mac Mini / MacBook Pro / MacBook Air 2020+
• Your Mac must support macOS 13 or higher, but we recommend running the latest macOS
• We highly recommend a Mac with Apple Silicon for TouchDesigner
• For Intel-based Macs, a model with a discrete AMD GPU is required
• 3 button mouse or 2 button mouse with scrollwheel
Other Pathways
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Join this course to learn how to conceptualize, previsualize, and ultimately render and deliver audio-visual content for the full-dome format. Explore how to create interactive visual performances.
