TouchDesigner Masterclass Immersive Gallery
Content Creation and Storytelling in Immersive Spaces
Eligibility: Intermediate to professional
understanding of TouchDesigner
Eligibility: Intermediate to professional understanding of TouchDesigner
About Touch Designer Masterclass Immersive Gallery
Explore the creation of immersive audiovisual content for gallery and festival environments with Stefan Kraus (MXZEHN). In this workshop, you’ll develop your own short compositions, experiment with generative, audio-driven visuals in TouchDesigner, and learn how to adapt your work to physical spaces. Through hands-on exercises and expert guidance, you’ll gain practical skills and a solid foundation for designing interactive, immersive, and audiovisual experiences.
What You Will Learn
This intensive workshop, led by Stefan Kraus (MXZEHN), introduces participants to the creation of immersive audiovisual content for gallery and festival environments. Designed for artists, designers, and creative technologists with a good understanding of TouchDesigner, the course provides a comprehensive foundation for exploring the artistic and technical challenges of immersive spaces.
Participants will learn to navigate the interplay between spatial design and visual content, developing skills in both real-time and pre-rendered pipelines. Using 3D simulations of the gallery space, students will gain confidence in adapting their work to physical environments before entering the venue.
The course emphasizes practical, project-driven learning. Participants will develop their own short audiovisual compositions, experimenting with generative, audio-driven visuals in TouchDesigner. Guidance and feedback from Stefan Kraus will support the creative process, helping participants refine their concepts and execute them effectively.
By the end of the course, participants will have a solid understanding of immersive content creation, practical experience in adapting audiovisual work to gallery and festival spaces, and the skills to continue developing their own projects for immersive art environments. Whether your goal is to create interactive installations, generative performances, or audiovisual experiences, this workshop equips you with both the conceptual framework and hands-on skills to bring your ideas to life.
Meet Your Instructor
Stefan Kraus, media artist and educator, is co-founder of The NODE Institute, the projection mapping festival, Genius Loci Weimar, and the media art studio, MXZEHN. Trained as an architect, Stefan explores the augmentation of physical structures using interactive and generative media and the narrative potential of abstract imagery. He holds a special interest in the art of live visual improvisation and creates augmented scenographies for theater, dance and music performances. After teaching Interaction Design at Bauhaus-University Weimar for over two decades, Stefan now enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience with the creative coding community. His studio produces interactive installations, live media performances and augmented reality applications for commercial clients, festivals, institutions and exhibitions.
Meet Your Instructor
Stefan Kraus, media artist and educator, is co-founder of The NODE Institute, the projection mapping festival, Genius Loci Weimar, and the media art studio, MXZEHN. Trained as an architect, Stefan explores the augmentation of physical structures using interactive and generative media and the narrative potential of abstract imagery. He holds a special interest in the art of live visual improvisation and creates augmented scenographies for theater, dance and music performances. After teaching Interaction Design at Bauhaus-University Weimar for over two decades, Stefan now enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience with the creative coding community. His studio produces interactive installations, live media performances and augmented reality applications for commercial clients, festivals, institutions and exhibitions.
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
Design and create immersive audiovisual content for gallery and festival environments
Understand the relationship between spatial design and visual storytelling
Work with real-time and pre-rendered pipelines in TouchDesigner
Use 3D space simulations to adapt content for physical venues
Develop and refine generative, audio-driven compositions
Gain practical skills to create immersive installations and audiovisual experiences
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
TouchDesigner Beginner Class
With Bileam Tschepe/elekktronaut
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TouchDesigner Masterclass Full Dome
With Simon Ryden / Supermarket Sallad
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.
