The Beauty of Tech-Art

Emerging Media Lab at UBC and Media Studies co-hosted two exciting events in one day: a lecture and a workshop with DesignFun, TeamLab, and the Tea Community!  
 
Lecture
The lecture featured a discussion with Takeshi Yamada, head of recruitment at TeamLab. Participants learned about interactive art, and the intersection between technology and creativity, as well as some of the artistic endeavours and innovations TeamLab is persueing, including interactive animations, outdoor installations  
 
Workshop
A TouchDesigner AI workshop, co-hosted by the TeaCommunity. Attendees got hands on experience integrating comfy UI with TouchDesigner software under the guidance of industry professionals.
 
For Participants, previous experience with TouchDesigner and knowledge of AIGC tools such as Stable Diffusion and comfyUI are recommended. If the participants lack experience with TouchDesigner, it would be beneficial for them to explore here: https://learn.derivative.ca/ website, in order to acquire foundational knowledge of TouchDesigner through the 100 series and 200 series tutorials beforehand.
 
To see some more photos of the event, check out the story here!