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Matt Schenck // Otherworld Tech Tour @ TouchDesigner Philly Meetup 25.05.27

Matt Schenck, Technical Director of Otherworld, gives us a very special tech tour of the workings of this 40,000 sq ft interactive art installation. He covers sensing, projection, tracking, networking, mapping, LED control, and more. Apologies for the audio quality on this one! Probably would have been better off with the native iPhone camera rather […]

Third Wave Arcade

May 28, 2025

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Mina Zarfsaz // Composing Systems of Entaglement @ TouchDesigner Philly Meetup 25.03.14

Mina Zarfsaz shows her work exploring communication in the sciences, spaces as vessels, showplay, space junk and glitch feminism. — Check out other videos from the TouchDesigner Philly meetup here: — About Mina Zarfsaz: https://minazarfsaz.com Mina Zarfsaz is an Assistant Professor of Design at Rowan University, where she coordinates the Design program and directs the […]

Third Wave Arcade

May 28, 2025

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Dave Sheinkopf // Smooth Technology @ TouchDesigner Philly Meetup 25.05.27

Dave Sheinkopf, aka BBQ Dave, co-founder of Smooth Technology, talks about Smooths’ origins, about their work for Taylor Swift, about making hats that become memes, about bartender robots, their work for Otherworld, and telling stories about and through your work. — Check out other videos from the TouchDesigner Philly meetup here: — About Dave Sheinkopf: […]

Third Wave Arcade

May 28, 2025

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Emil Polyak // Fractal Encounters @ TouchDesigner Philly Meetup 25.03.14

This talk focuses on a few of Polyak’s works investigating the use and occurrence of fractals in generative and interactive work, both Polyak’s and others, through whitepapers, sketches, procedural art, and interactive installation. — About Emil Polyak: Emil Polyak is an associate professor at the College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University, where […]

Third Wave Arcade

March 17, 2025

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Spatial Pixel // Procession @ TouchDesigner Philly Meetup 25.03.14

Spatial Pixel’s Procession is a new LLM-powered creative coding environment that enables a fluid natural-language interface to tools like p5.js, IFTTT, and web APIs. Violet Whitney and William Martin demo the tool and explain the motivation behind the project. — About Spatial Pixel: Violet Whitney: Violet co-leads Spatial Pixel, where she applies expertise in spatial […]

Third Wave Arcade

March 17, 2025

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Noah Norman // Gradient Descent @ TouchDesigner Philly Meetup 25.03.14

Noah offers some tips on how to navigate the ‘hyperparameter space’ of open-ended design challenges in new media through the lens of his recent work designing next-generation arcade games for Third Wave. — About Noah Norman: Noah Norman is an artist, technical director, and Chief of Hard Work Party. He’s spent the last 15 years […]

Third Wave Arcade

March 17, 2025

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Making Games in TouchDesigner (Teaser)

This is our first video as Third Wave Arcade! We’re a brand-new startup building an immersive roomscale gaming platform. This episode: TouchDesigner is the best tool out there for new media installations, experiments, visual art explorations, large-scale interactive systems, etc. etc., but can it be used to make games? What are the pros and cons? […]

Third Wave Arcade

September 17, 2024

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Making Games in TouchDesigner?

TouchDesigner is the best tool out there for new media installations, experiments, visual art explorations, large-scale interactive systems, etc. etc., but can it be used to make games? What are the pros and cons? Let’s get into it! In addition to a deep dive on the ins and outs of using TouchDesigner to make games, […]

Third Wave Arcade

September 12, 2024

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