TOOLMAKING

Artists engaging in toolmaking, especially in experimental media arts, allows artists to explore new ways of seeing the electronic image that is not based on industry tools. It opens up a dialog for questioning all tools and their relationship to what is possible. Community and sharing these possibilities, along with developing tools that include paradigms of modularity and performativity are key for new images and new ways of thinking to emerge.

TOUCHDESIGNER TUTORIALS & TOOLS FOR EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA ARTS

Philosophical Tools is is a tutorial series focused on experimental media art toolmaking and practices, specific research on historical signal flows and new phenomena found via contemporary means. Tools created here are real-time built for use in the node based programming environment TouchDesigner. I have a free series of tutorials for learning TouchDesigner from the perspective of a video artist, as well as paid tutorials that go over how to build video instruments.

In addition, I have built out TOX files, think custom apps for use in TouchDesinger. Currently there is nine TOX files with a range of possibilities.

Modular TOX files:

BitShaper 1.0
Audio-Visual Sequencer 1.1
Colorizer 1.1
ColorMixer 1.1
Cronos 1.1
Not-A-Rutt-Etra 1.2
Pattern Generator 1.0
PIXELATOR 1.0
Video Mixer 1.1 (Now with Midi)
Video Sampler 1.0

Signal Culture Modular Apps

Experimental Real-time Video Processing Software

The Signal Culture Apps give you access to custom professional video and new media software applications for producing real-time experimental media artworks. Great for artists, VJ's, designers, and hobbyists!

I joined the board of Signal Culture in 2016, to help develop these experimental video applications for real-time video processing. From 2016-present, Jason Bernagozzi and I have developed nine experimental media art applications. We work collaboratively on the code behind the main process/functionality of the application, and I develop the user interface and design. The Signal Culture applications have over ten thousand users worldwide and are in more than twenty university media art studios around the United States. Our applications provide a way of sharing the importance of artist-made tools and the principles and pedagogies that emerged from the Experimental Television Center and continues with Signal Cultures studios. These include modularity, performativity, and philosophical processes. Our applications are also a way to give back to our artist community and promote experimental media arts around the world.

The new Signal Culture Modular Apps are scalable to any resolution your rig can handle. Featuring modular design and Syphon/Spout integration allows for seamless video processing across applications simultaneously including external device support, easy MIDI controller assignment, and live feed processing. The modular apps have been remade from the ground up by Jason Bernagozzi, I continue to assist by developing and designing the UI.