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When Fri, Oct 2nd 2020 - 10:00 until Thu, Oct 8th 2020 - 17:00
Where online webinars, Germany
NODE20 is taking shape!
We have a fantastique list of workshops for you, ranging from beginner to pro, from user to contributor. Here is a convenient overview of all the online workshops you can participate in during the week from October 2nd to 8th. A ticket is only 50€ and gives you full access to the festival and workshops plus recordings to rewatch them.
Hope to see you all in cyberspace!
Saturday
Introduction to vvvv: For DesignersThe "getting started" for people who are not necessarily familiar with vvvv beta or other creative coding environments. Here we take you by the hand and start from scratch so from here on you can follow other workshops. Generative Design AlgorithmsIn this workshop, we will be practicing the commonly known aspects of generative design algorithms. Despite the wide range of the term, we will introduce you to the fundamentals as well as simple tips and tricks. |
Introduction to vvvv: For CodersThe "getting started" for people who have a background in programming languages like java, csharp, c++, javascript,... Here we show you how you can combine your knowledge with visual live-programming in vvvv. Create a Learning Game for Your KidsWhile designing a learning app for kids, you will learn object-oriented patching patterns along the way. We will go from 0 to exe in 3 hours. |
Sunday
Introduction to vvvv, VideoFX & CompositingGet a short introduction to vvvv and learn how to use chains of visual effects to get from zero to wow within minutes – Real-time graphics for beginners. Building UI's with VL.ElementaIn this introductory workshop, we’ll explore the functionalities and widgets you can find in the VL.Elementa library to effortlessly build wonderful graphical user interfaces. |
Using .NET NuGetsIn this workshop, we’ll show you how easy it is to use any .NET nuget with vvvv and how to navigate common issues that you may encounter doing so. Procedural Graphics with Field TripIn this workshop, we will be learning how to constantly produce procedural graphics using the FieldTrip pack. |
Monday
VVVVj starter packThis workshop will cover the basics of VJing using vvvv. You'll be provided with an initial VJing setup with generative examples, postFX and a composition system, which you can then customize. Realtime graphics with Stride 3Dvvvv has just adopted the powerful realtime 3D graphics engine Stride 3D. In this workshop, we are looking at its basic concepts and learn to set up a scene with geometries, lights and material. Remote CocreationCreative Coding is about finding inspiration in the process of work. Add a few friends to this process and it is going to be even more inspiring! This workshop gathers participants from all over the world to work together on one patch. |
Having a Field DayFieldTrip is a vvvv beta pack for working with 2D and 3D scalar and vector fields. Think generative patterns, agents, procedural noise and 3D graphics beyond the triangle. Building Systems with VLIn this workshop, we'll zoom out and try to gather a birds-eye view onto systems built with VL. We'll explore some of the underlying ideas that helped shaping the patches of some VL libraries or projects. DevOps vvvv – Installation Infrastructure MaintenanceMaintaining installations with a lot of vvvv clients. Deploying, updating, synchronizing, monitoring, infrastructures based on vvvv and third party tools using vvvv and third party tools. |
Tuesday
Audible DataEveryone can make numbers look interesting – but let’s learn how to make them sound vvvvonderful! Beyond Sound and VisualThis workshop is for artists, musicians, creative coders, professionals, students, designers, and whoever is interested in creating audio-visual content using vvvv. Networking ProtocolsThis workshop is for everybody who needs a kickstart on the topic of networking in general, how the different protocols (UDP, TCP, MQTT, OSC, ZMQ,..) can be used in vvvv and what properties they have, so you can decide which one fits best for your use case. |
Turning a .NET library into a VL libraryIn this workshop, we'll guide you through the whole process of turning a .NET class library into an easy-to-use node library for VL. Making of SchémaSchéma is a visual programming environment created in... a visual programming environment, namely vvvv gamma. Curious about building something of this scale in VL, then join this lecture! Introduction to Reactive PatchingIn this workshop, we introduce the basic concepts of reactive programming that will make you understand how to work with Observables, react to events, and run computations in a background thread. |
Wednesday
Introduction to Computer VisionIn this workshop, we will start with a general overview of the functionality provided by VL.OpenCV to then dive in a hands-on session where we will experiment with some of the more accessible and exciting features that this library ships with. Patching MaterialsMaterials define the appearance of 3D model surfaces and how they react to light. They can affect both the geometry of a model and its colors and multiple material layers can be combined to build more complex materials. In this workshop, we're going to explore the node-set that allows us to patch custom materials. Machine Learning with RunwayMLIn this workshop, we'll get familiar with RunwayML, a tool dedicated to artists willing to use machine learning models in their workflow. Using the vvvv implementation, VL.RunwayML, we'll see how easy it is to integrate an existing model in our patches. |
The Stride Game StudioStride is an open-source C# game engine for realistic rendering and VR. But how to get started? In this workshop we'll go through the basics of getting Stride, managing projects, importing assets and creating and controlling entities in a scene. Object Oriented PatchingVisualprogramming is often equivalent to dataflow programming. With VL though, you can also use metaphors known from object-oriented programming. This means that with VL you can define your own datatypes, instantiate them, manage them in collections and call individual operations on instances. A preview to ShaderFXVisual shader patching? Yes, please! These days, all major game engines have node-based material and/or visual effects editors. And their common purpose is to provide a way to work creatively with CPU and GPU data. The experimental ShaderFX in VL.Stride generalizes this approach and takes it one step further. You work with CPU & GPU data and operations on the same canvas, at runtime – vvvv style. |
Thursday
The vvvv APIIn this workshop, we will be diving into the VL runtime API. We'll touch general library design philosophies, like offering descriptive high-level process nodes that are easy to play with and talk about enhancing the patching experience for users of our library. Let's interact with electronics, wirelessly using ESP8266/ESP32This workshop is for anyone without any experience in electronics/hardware, it's intended as a first contact between code <-> electronics, but with one of the most used and powerful and inexpensive micro controllers. |
The State of Machine LearningThis talk looks back over a few years of swimming against the tide of Python to make machine learning a technology easy to use with vvvv. You'll see that, by getting your head around a few important principles, running models in vvvv can be pretty straight forward. VL.Stride DeepdiveOne major strength of VL.Stride is that it offers an easy to use scene graph and at the same time lets you go as far down to the graphics API as you want. This workshop will approach 3d rendering from these two opposite ends and you'll learn how to combine them. |
Who Takuma Nakata
When Mon, Sep 28th 2020 - 17:00 until Wed, Sep 30th 2020 - 20:00
Where Gray Area Online, United States
In this two-day workshop, learn to create generative graphics using node based programming language called vvvv. During this session you will learn to build an immersive visual system, by applying various visual effects on a 3D animated character exported using Adobe Mixamo. This session will be a practical introduction to vvvv, with focus on 3D graphics and using data. For those who are interested in creating immersive visuals through code with the flexibility of creating interactive, physical experiences, this workshop is the perfect place to start.
Workshop Logistics Dates:
Monday September 28 &
Wednesday September 30
Times: 5 – 8pm PST
Cost: $120 Experience
Level: Beginner to Intermediate.
Requirements:
• Windows PC with a microphone input and a mouse (both necessary for this workshop)
• Install vvvv beta 64bit version.
Workshop Outline • Introduction to vvvv
• Installation vvvv and packs
• Importing Animated 3D character
• Tweaking vertices
• Making it audio reactive
• Learning DX11 Particle Packs
• Applying particle effects to the character
• Introducing https://visualprogramming.net/
Online Workshop This 6 hours online workshop will be held as two 3 hours workshop over two days via video webinar. We will have an online community chat to share your questions during and beyond the workshop. Please contact us if you have any additional questions at creativedev@grayarea.org.
https://grayarea.org/workshop/generative-graphics-workshop-with-vvvv/
Who takuma
When Fri, Aug 21st 2020 - 17:00 until Fri, Aug 21st 2020 - 20:00
Where online webinar, Germany
Learn from the creator of the vvvv beta video tutorial series takuma:
We will be learning how to create a procedural graphic using vvvv beta. In combination with FieldTrip and some other interesting packs and nodes such as spline buffer Matcap and so on, we will develop an artistic good looking visual in a dense quality and color which can be used as a poster, wall paper or whatever.
This course is a good basis to dive deeper into the scene at this years online edition of NODE20 – Forum for Digital Arts. Prepare your neurons and get ready.
When Fri, Oct 2nd 2020 until Thu, Oct 8th 2020
Patchers worldwide!
Since our initial announcement you may have noticed, the world has changed. It took us a while to adapt to those changes, but here we are, NODE20 is going to happen:
Experiment
The main challenge we see with this mostly online edition, is how to realize the levels of intimacy we reached at the previous NODEs. Unfortunately, current constraints don't allow us to do what has always been at the core of NODE: bringing as many of us together in meat space for some quality time.
But "constraints" is also what we like to embrace as challenges, so with NODE20 we're hoping to make the best of the given situation. It will be an experiment that will certainly not work for everyone. On the other hand the online focus has the potential to involve so many more people than only those who are privileged enough to be able to travel to Frankfurt.
In Progress...
What you don't know, is that behind the scenes there is already a team of about 20 people (NODE all-stars with the help of some new faces) working since months to raise money (not easy in corona times) , negotiate contracts, design websites, curate programs and think about how we can make this special version of NODE more than a passive online-stream.
We have two ideas that we hope will make the difference:
- All participants will be connected via the Festival Hub
- Work is underway to realize an interactive online-conference experiment, we call the Emergency Broadcast Studio
Theme
The title #SecondNature is set. The core idea remains the same: Let's explore art-making and digital creative practices in times of ecological crisis - a crisis that is, in large part, fueled by our technology needs. How seriously do we as a community of digital creators take our share of responsibility? How can we rethink our practices, challenge our industries, and empower others to do the same? A first step is the critical examination of the go-to tools and processes that have become our ‘second nature’. From imagination to implementation—if collapse is to be averted, rewriting our Second Nature will be key.
Curators Jeanne Charlotte Vogt (NODE) and Alexander Scholz (HOLO) are keen to hear your input. They prepared this form before corona hit. Thank you for those who already filled it out. You are still invited to share information about your practice and how you relate. https://forms.gle/N9Xbxsnxj7aCPRPG6
Over the coming weeks, the curation team will reach out with more ideas and notes on how we will address the topic together with you. Your ideas are welcome, see below!
Workshops
We're curating a series of about 25 online workshops and lectures. The first bunch is already confirmed. Many more are still to come!
If you want to offer a workshop, please send us a proposal. If you're missing a workshop on a specific topic, please send us a request.
We want as many people to share their knowledge during NODE20, so even if we don't choose your proposal: Every participant of NODE20 will be able to announce their own lectures/workshops on the spot, unconference style.
And even after NODE20 there'll be the chance for everyone to run their workshops or courses via The NODE Institute. So please definitely make yourself heard. We want to know what you can share!
Help
Want to help? We are looking for volunteer support in the following areas:
1) Frankfurt on-site professional support for the conference production
2) Preparing Polls / Questionaries for the conference
3) Generate ideas and setup tools to contribute to the festival theme
4) Online support for workshop moderation
Please get in touch via: david.bruell@nodeforum.org and use our chat room: Towards NODE20
Curious and want to know more? Join us for the 5th worldwide vvvv meetup where the makers of NODE20 will answer all your questions.
Already convinced? Get your tickets.
When Tue, Jul 28th 2020 - 20:00 until Tue, Jul 28th 2020 - 22:00
Hey vvvvolks,
it's Meetup Tuesday again: July 28th 8pm CET we will have our 5th online meetup for vvvv users around the globe and it won’t be the last for sure. Prepare your family and cool the wine. Members of the community will entertain you with fresh projects and shiny patches.
Want to join with your presentation?
We could have one or two more demos/presentations! Anything more or less related to vvvv, yourself and your projects. Share some thoughts, share your funny fails. Share what you are up to.
Please get in touch via meetup@vvvv.org and let us know what you want to present. We'll then get back to you and organize the streaming tool etc. We are looking forward to this! a_a_a_a david joreg sebl
Here is the plan: We'll be using again a video-conferencing platform for moderators and presenters and will be streaming out to evvvveryone via youtube and possibly other channels as well. Updates on how to use the back channel will be given. Live stream link will be provided here!
Takuma Nakata
Location: Kyoto
takuma
https://takumanakata.com/
Freelance computational (visual | spatial ) artist based in Kyoto/Japan. Grew up in Brazil, Senegal and in Indonesia, deeply passionate in converting virtual phenomena to a physical experience. Adobe Creative Residency 2019 - 2020. Well know for his growing set of really good vvvv tutorials.
NODE20 Q&A
Location: Frankfurt
david katzenfresser
https://20.nodeforum.org/
This is not a project presentation, but David and Johannes will introduce you to this years NODE edition.
There's too much to say about it... in short it's about what and how will happen when and what is so special about it.
In the second part, it's up to you to ask questions about NODE - this time we try to integrate participants into the video stream for fun!
VL.STRIDE Demo
Location: Berlin
tonfilm
Tebjan will give us a first glimpse into the reworked version of the upcoming VL.Stride 3d library. He will patch some nicely shaded objects in the new system and demonstrate the ease of use. After that we'll have a physics simulation and more advanced gpu topics on the screens.
When Tue, Jun 23rd 2020 - 20:00 until Tue, Jun 23rd 2020 - 22:00
Hey vvvvolks,
it's Meetup Tuesday again: June 23th 8pm CET we will meet again in the interwebz!
Want to join with your presentation?
We could have one or two more demos/presentations! Anything more or less related to vvvv, yourself and your projects. Share some thoughts, share your funny fails. Share what you are up to.
Please get in touch via meetup@vvvv.org and let us know what you want to present. We'll then get back to you and organize the streaming tool etc. We are looking forward to this! a_a_a_a david joreg sebl
Here is the plan: We'll be using again a video-conferencing platform for moderators and presenters and will be streaming out to evvvveryone via youtube and possibly other channels as well. Updates on how to use the back channel will be given. Live stream link will be provided here!
Confirmed Presenters:
Natan Sinigaglia
Location: currently Berlin
dottore
http:/natansinigaglia.com
the well known doctor promoted to a heart surgent when it comes to developing libraries for VL. the sound and visual artist from Italy will take us on a tour through the latest developments of Elementa - the quasi standard for user interfaces in VL. expect this talk to cover high-level, low-level and awesome-level insights.
Constantine Nisidis
nissidis
location: Athens
https://www.nisidis.com
Constantine is a visual arts professional located in Athens. The technically skilled vvvv long term user always has some hot plates on the oven that are worth a closer look. His latest experiments in VL-land is about interfacing VL and Blender which makes up awhole new world of possible workflows. We will get a sneak-peak to this amazing pipeline called VL.Ender
Ann-Katrin Krenz and Michael Burk
location: Berlin
a_a_a_a & mburk
https://andand.xyz/ and also part ofhttps://schnellebuntebilder.de/
They are interactive designers and media artists and a tag team when it comes to designing complex things.
We will be shown some insights to their process of developing a key visual for the upcoming NODE20 festival.
If you're a vvvv user, the chance you used superphysicalby Michael is quite high. So you can expect some aesthetics spiced with technical sophistication in this presentation.
When Tue, May 26th 2020 - 20:00 until Tue, May 26th 2020 - 20:00
Hey vvvvolks,
Let't do it again. Tuesday May 26th 8pm CET it is.
Live here: https://youtu.be/pa3HRQ7kj6w
Want to join with your presentation?
We could have one or two more demos/presentations! Anything more or less related to vvvv, yourself and your projects. Share some thoughts, share your funny fails. Share what you are up to.
Please get in touch via meetup@vvvv.org and let us know what you want to present. We'll then get back to you and organize the streaming tool etc. We are looking forward to this! a_a_a_a david joreg sebl
Here is the plan: We'll be using again a video-conferencing platform for moderators and presenters and will be streaming out to evvvveryone via youtube and possibly other channels as well. Updates on how to use the back channel will be given. Live stream link will be provided here!
Confirmed Presenters
Ekatarina Danilova
Location: Moscow => Berlinhttp://www.idwyr.com
idwyr
We got Kat! A visual artist using vvvv since 2012 for interactive installations, VJ, Real time graphics and video production. Last 4 year I was also working as a vj in clubs/festivals and developed my own tool for vjing using WPF and vvvv. I will show the inside of the WPF project and vvvv patches to demonstrate how both communicate together, using midi controllers and OSC.
Christine Meyerhofer & Nils Weger
Location: Frankfurt / Offenbach
ravel & phlegma
https://christinemayerhofer.de/https://nodeforum.org/people/nils-weger/
Travelling to severals music festivals and building light sculptures for dance floors inspired us to develop this light control software. Many years of experiences in live performing helped us to create this modular interface optimised for generative visuals.
Next to texture based animation you can work with 3d geometry in virtual space to create visuals on LED light matrices. This technique is very efficient by adapting to new light set ups and is giving a great room perception. The live performance interface is based on the Runtime Model by dottore model-runtime-editor-design-pattern. For the Show to luminale 2020 we integrated the timeline Tilda by nsynkhttps://discourse.vvvv.org/t/vl-tilda/17644 and created the light show „Binärtransformation - digitized life“https://www.luminale.de/projekte/digitales-leben
Unfortunately we didn’t had any visitors at Luminale 2020 thanks to corona. So we are waiting for the next change to build it up again.
Andres Alvarez
Location: Argentina
https://www.instagram.com/andresc4/
andresc4
Andres is a vvvv user since beta23. Rather than an artist he defines himself as a Maker. With a background in graphic design and electronics, he uses vvvv as a tool for all kind of hardware interactions, VJing, and professional work. He will show us a few of his projects and experiments made with vvvv, from fun electronics projects, dmx and pixel mapping, drones + shaders, vjing, and interactive lasers.
Who joreg, david, you
When Tue, Apr 28th 2020 - 20:01 until Tue, Apr 28th 2020 - 22:00
Where cyberspace, Germany
Hey vvvvolks,
Let't do it again. Tuesday April 28th 8pm CET it is.
Live here: https://youtu.be/sSQ0uiSv0oM
Confirmed Presenters
Dominik Jančík
We will have a little interview with user domj who started our weekly patch therapy. If you didn't need therapy yet.. now you do! Check out https://therapy.domj.net We will get a little wrap up of what has happend there.
Davide di Franco
Location: Italy
http://www.didif.it/
ddf
Inspired by the Structuresynth he has recently programmed a tool to develop arrays of primitives in order to create instant shells that I will be printing in 3D. To do this he is using InstanceNoodles, Superphysical and VAudio engine.
Alvaro Martin Treviño
Location: Madrid, Spain
https://www.instagram.com/artstrevinho/
AKa-visuals
Álvaro Martín Treviño aka AKa-visualsis a visual artist with extensive training in audiovisual production and postproduction and knowledge of realtime applications. A wide professional career endorses him both in audiovisual postproduction for television and in real-time events, carrying out advertising campaigns and live events. See (https://vimeo.com/90342955)
He will talk about his work on VL.FastNoise and VL.SharpNoise
Vadmin Epstein
Location: Moskow, Russia
personal http://eps.here.ru
studiohttps://in-visible.ru
eps
Vadim used vvvv+shaders as a weapon-of-choice for ~10 years, doing high profile VJing/videomapping/installations for living (teaming with antokhio, idwyr, vux, etc. for studio projects. A few years ago he switched to the neural networks, using vvvv now mostly for integration and/or simple extra tasks. Vadim will show few examples of such usage (spout/osc integration, image pre/post-processing), as well as some key findings and achievements in general
Natan Sinigaglia
finally dottore will present the current status of VL.Elementa
Here is the plan: We'll be using again a video-conferencing platform for moderators and presenters and will be streaming out to evvvveryone via youtube and possibly other channels as well. Updates on how to use the back channel will be given. Live stream link will be provided here!
Want to join with your presentation?
Please get in touch via meetup@vvvv.org and let us know what you want to present. We'll then get back to you and organize for the streaming.
Hope to get some more international vvvvolks in this way...
we are looking forward to this! a_a_a_a david joreg sebl
Who joreg, david
When Thu, Apr 9th 2020 until Thu, Apr 30th 2020
Where online webinar, Germany
Dear all. I hope everybody is fine and healthy wherever you are on the globe.
Due to the COVID-19 situation we are finally forced to extend online activities. Surely everybody was waiting for this anyways... ;-) As everybody should #staythefuckhome we now do the vvvv meetups as an worldwide online meetups as mentioned in this post.
We set a few more webinar dates.
Please check in here. You will receive a link to the webinar prior to the event..
Newbies: Getting started with vvvv gamma
April 9th and April 30th - 18:00 - 20:00 CET
This one is for curios minds of any background who want to try it for the first time..
https://nodeforum.org/announcements/introduction-webinars-to-vvvv-gamma/
https://nodeforum.org/announcements/introduction-webinars-to-vvvv-gamma-2/
Follow up: Introduction to object oriented patching in vvvv gamma
April 16th - 18:00 - 21:00 CET
This one addresses any curious mind who has fallen in lovvvve with gamma already.
https://nodeforum.org/announcements/introduction-to-object-oriented-patching/
Extra: Visual Programming for Coders
April 15th - 18:00 - 21:00 CET
This one addresses more programmers
https://nodeforum.org/announcements/webinar-visual-programming-for-coders/
Hope to see you at the screens
David
Who evvvveryone
When Tue, Mar 24th 2020 - 20:00 until Tue, Mar 24th 2020 - 22:20
Where Internet, Germany
Helo vvvvorld,
so this is how you wanted it to happen all along: The next vvvv meetup on March 24th will be vvorldvvide and online only!
Here is the plan: We'll be using a video-conferencing platform for moderators and presenters and will be streaming out to evvvveryone via our TV channel with our chat as your backchannel. And we're looking for up to 4 presenters to show us what they are working on. Anything vvvv counts, 15min max. How does that sound?
Now it is up to you: Please get in touch via meetup@vvvv.org and let us know what you want to present. We'll then get back to you and organize for the streaming.
Hope to get some more international vvvvolks in this way...
Looking forward to this!
Confirmed Presenters
- ggml http://ggml.io/
- Juan Hurle https://vimeo.com/juanhurle
- maybe catweasel
- domj
anonymous user login
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