Derivative
is dedicated to advance the way we make art. Touch Tools
are Derivative's software products for designing interactive art and performing live visuals.
NOTE: The currently-available version of Touch is 017, first posted in December 2005. We have since been working on our next-gen of TouchDesigner. We have not set a release date, but do join the mailing list or download 017 to be informed when announcements are made. In the meantime...
The Pixel Gallery is Toronto's first gallery dedicated to interactve art. The opening day on November 17 will feature a mutation of a sound exploration piece by Greg Hermanovic that first showed at the Waterloo Kids Museum.
Virtual Identity Process - V.I.P. - Interactive Installation
Oct-2007
V.I.P. Virtual Identity Process is an interactive installation produced by the students participating in the Masters of Digital Environment Design at the NABA in Milan, Italy.
NEW! Rush launches 2007 Tour with Derivative Visuals
Jun-2007
Derivative produced custom live visuals for nine songs of the 2007 tour, which opened on June 13 in Atlanta. More info and photos very soon. Until then, visit the Rush 2004 tour pages.
INTERVALS by Warne / Krivel and next-gen TouchDesigner
May-2007
INTERVALS is a series of interactive video artworks that explore the stretching of live video in time to visualize the monstrous time creatures we have become. Using surveillance systems and custom applications built in TouchDesigner, the project culminated in an electronic public artwork for Toronto's first Nuit Blanche.
YouAreWatchingUs - Weimar, Germany
Mar-2007
Take apart a bunch of image scanners, mount them on the walls and in the washroom stalls of a Weimar club, connect them to TouchDesigner, and you get this manifestation of unrestrained creativity. More appearances coming soon. Bring your own Windex (Sidolin).
Toronto International Film Festival - Peter Mettler's Elsewhere
Nov-2006
The Toronto Film Festival and Nuit Blanche featured the works of Peter Mettler, maker of Pictures of Light and Gambling / Gods. Peter, Derivative, Murcof, Evergreen Gamelan joined in an eight-hour fusion of live manipulated image and sound at Berkeley Church in Toronto. September 15 & 30, 2006
Derivative Event - Derrick May, Larry Heard, Mike Huckaby
Dec-2005
The pioneers of Detroit techno and Chicago house at the final party at a respected Toronto warehouse space got the extra Touch from Derivative on December 17, 2005.
Plastikman Live
Nov-2004
Richie Hawtin and Derivative introduced new technologies that enable him to perform music-synced visuals from Ableton Live and his new CTRL MIDI controller. Hawtin a.k.a. Plastikman headlined Montreal's Mutek festival on June 4.
Japanese media artist Noboru Tsubaki's work Cochineal is featured this year as part of the Fantaisies Cybernétiques: Hommes et Robots exhibit at the Japanese Cultural Centre in Paris. In the form of a large fiberglass insect that lures visitors into its "web", Cochineal is one in a series of socially and politically motivated installations by Tsubaki.
Touch for Installation Artists
For media artists who create intertactive artworks, TouchDesigner
is the most versatile tool for manipulating sensor data and video,
and for designing exhibit behavior.
Touch
for VJs
The VJ's arsenal expands beyond loop mixing to a zone where any
3D shape, light or camera becomes a rhythmic element, synced to
BPM and under MIDI control.
Touch for Architects
Design realtime projections seamlessly into architectural structures,
make imagery responsive to environmental factors and shape it to
any hypersurface configuration.
Touch
for Musicians
Author visuals with TouchDesigner and compose to a music track in
the studio. Perform visuals while Touch captures your moves, then
edit it down to a complete music video.
Touch
for Stage Designers
For the concert, runway or theater, projections from Touch opens
up new possibilities for stage designers to compose, arrange and
re-time visuals on-set.
Touch
for Educators and Researchers
Use Touch's logical building-block architecture as a powerful tool
for learning computer graphics, user interfaces and math - without
the math, and for visualizing data in 3D.
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