On Sunday July 28th, join us at the Grand Theater for a selection of Creative Code workshops taught by eight talented instructors, recognized for actively shaping their fields and practices.

All students will need to bring a laptop to participate in the workshops.

The latest developments in mobile AR technology can enable us to create Augmented Reality(AR) experiences that seamlessly blend the digital and physical worlds. The Unity game engine is an amazing tool for building interactive experiences. This workshop will provide attendees with an understanding of how to develop immersive AR apps for their phone with Unity.

Learn to build an interactive kaleidoscope with Touch Designer and Arduino. This workshop traverses an interactive art pipeline from the hardware layer through the network into the application layer and onto the GPU. It introduces TouchDesigner a visual programming tool for rapid prototyping and real time graphics and the ESP-32, a well-supported microcontroller.

This workshop looks at the role storytelling plays in immersive work and explores how thinking about how story can enrich and expand an interactive piece when built with the immersive experience in mind. Nicholas Fortugno, creator of immersive pieces that have appeared at Sundance, Tribeca, and the Future of Storytelling, teaches techniques for how to build storyworlds as the foundation for exhibiting narratives in installation pieces and methods for using exploration as a primary mode of telling a story.

Holograms, once a signifier of futuristic science fiction, are now the technological pillars of our social reality. Our collective path forward will bring to life a new form of physically-integrated art and entertainment, which can be accessed anywhere in the world.

Get ready to get seriously playful about mixed reality experiences. In this workshop, we’ll cover the foundational basics of AR development with Enklu & HoloLens. You’ll learn to create 3D environments, add interactive objects and dynamic lighting elements. Students will receive their own HoloLens device to use during the course. Soon, you'll be well on your way to becoming an intergalactic master of holograms!

Creating 3D objects from 2D photographs is a process is called "photogrammetry", and it requires a very specific type of photography. This process allows you to scan everything from objects and people, to architecture and landscapes.

This workshop goes over the entire process from start to finish, including photographic techniques, lighting conditions, and post-processing methods to generate accurate 3D models from photos. There are a few different strategies you can use when acquiring images, and this workshop goes over everything you need to know to scan objects and architectural spaces.

Sounds and smells are natural sensory partners that use parallel systems of organization, notation and composition. They are also two of our most primal and emotive senses.

By using Sonic Pi, a live coding environment and olfactory smell notes from a perfume organ, we will create our own multi-sensory compositions. The pieces, produced individually or in small teams, will be curated into a group installation which addresses the possibilities of inducing synesthesia through creative associations of sound and scent.

In this hands-on workshop, students will learn the basics of building, programming, and performing with DIY synthesizers. In the process of building your very own synth, you will learn about fundamental electronic components, how to read circuit schematics and diagrams, how to solder printed circuit boards (PCBs), and how to make bizarre and wonderful sounds on the Arduino/Ardutouch platform.

Artist Ganga Baird will host a second session of this workshop introducing mixed reality experiences.

In this workshop, we’ll cover the foundational basics of AR development with Enklu & HoloLens. You’ll learn to create 3D environments, add interactive objects and dynamic lighting elements. Students will receive their own HoloLens device to use during the course.