The Implicit Body

This graduate-level studio course investigates the collisions and entanglements between technology and the human body, providing students with the opportunity to create immersive and interactive installations and performances that unfold through movement, space, and time. The course delves into visual programming for immersive experiences, projection mapping, live camera feeds, spatialized sound, and computer vision. Using the visual programming platform TouchDesigner, participants will harness their bodies as control signals to create interactive artworks and immersive installations that engage with and critique physical and temporal presence, exploring the interplay between movement, data, light, and evolving perceptual states.

Emphasizing critical inquiry and creative experimentation, this course challenges students to rethink the boundaries between the digital and the organic, between technology and the body. Students will engage with theoretical frameworks from spatial computing studies, media studies, human-computer interaction, and performance theory, interrogating the ethical, aesthetic, and conceptual dimensions of interactive and immersive works. Finally, students will create projects that will be either spatialized performances or immersive video installations using Touchdesigner, movement, and projectors.