Creative Coding

In this course code becomes both the tool and the craft that supports your creative practice. When designing interactive media, code exists at various levels: as the engine of your work, as the material forming and informing your process, and/or as the critical subject of your research.

This course introduces the different languages and practices of Creative Coding, with a method that is applied, creative, and critical. The classes are designed to encourage collaborative, open-ended, inclusive, and sustainable approaches to computing in art and design.

No previous knowledge of coding is required.

Classes

Class #01

Lecture: Intro to Creative Coding
Tutorial: Scripting animation in P5js
Assignment: Dynamic portrait

Class #02

Tutorial: Scripting interaction in P5js
Assignment: Interactive poem

Class #03

Lecture: Conditional Design
Tutorial: Conditional statements and loops
Assignment: One-button game

Class #04

Group & individual check-in

Class #05

Tutorial: Forms, buttons, menus in HTML/CSS
Exercise: Make a bad UI form

Class #06

Lecture: Internet art
Tutorial: Hypertext design in HTML/CSS
Exercise: browser-based story

Class #07

Group & individual check-in

Class #08

Tutorial: Audiovisual programming in TouchDesigner
Exercise: Illuminated Interventions

Class #09

Tutorial: Computer vision in TouchDesigner
Exercise: Digital Theremin

Class #10

Guest Lecture with Pawel

Class #11

Lecture: permacomputing
Tutorial: transformers in Python
Assignment: train your own language model

Class #12

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