This comprehensive 7-week class immerses students in generative design techniques. Beginning with the fundamentals and extending to more advanced practices, topics include an introduction to generative design principles, an in-depth exploration of TouchDesigner nodes and networks, geometry creation, image processing, audio-visual interaction, and interactive media. Students engage in hands-on projects … Read more

Learn to shoot great moving imagery and record high-quality audio to create engaging stories! This class provides a technical and conceptual foundation for digital video production. Students gain and hone camera skills including aperture, frame rate, and video codecs, as well as the basics of sound capture for video. ​This … Read more

Intro to B&W Darkroom Photography is a hands-on 7-week introduction to the analog B&W darkroom photography process. Lessons include camera functions, exposure, film developing, chemistry and enlarger use, making contact prints and work prints, and final printing in the darkroom. Critiques of student work develop an aesthetic and conceptual understanding … Read more

In this seven-week intensive class, students receive an introductory overview of how to create their own 2D digital artwork. As they gain proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, students learn approaches to compositional techniques that create intrigue and depth in their final artworks. Starting from a blank canvas, students are … Read more

This course educates students in an array of digital design methods for creating physical objects. Participants gain fluency in crafting digital files for object-making, from initial design to machine language. Areas of focus include computer-aided design, additive manufacturing techniques, and 3D printing processes. Students learn to translate their ideas into … Read more

Traditionally, street photography is an established method of documentary investigation made popular in the 20th century by greats such as Eugene Atget and Walker Evans.  Following the Second World War, photographers like Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, and Diane Arbus began to look at photography and the street in very different … Read more

Visual and Information Design for Digital Experience is a seven-week synchronous remote/online course focused on visual and graphic design for digital experiences and environments. Through presentations, workshops, critique and in-class exercises, students learn core design principles such as balance, contrast, visual hierarchy, alignment, repetition, proportion, negative space and Gestalt principles. … Read more

Using digital capture devices, students examine the ways in which light shapes our perception of the world around us, and explore the possibilities of light as a tool in their artistic practice. Technical assignments aim to harness the power of existing/found light as well as supplementary sources including strobe and … Read more

In this Time-Based Media editing and finishing intensive, students learn professional strategies and workflows for completing polished time-based (digital video and/or animation) projects, including color grading, video effects, and audio mixing. Students are introduced to the wide range of tools and techniques available in Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve software, as … Read more

In this 7-week class, students make inanimate objects and physical materials come to life using traditional stop-motion techniques in experimental and at-home DIY environments. We explore the basics of animated movement and students learn the animation process from start to finish. Exercises demonstrate concepts including boils, loops and morphs, and … Read more

In this digital capture / photo production intensive, students are introduced to the creative and technical possibilities of digital photography while exploring photographic history and current practices. Participants learn to use a digital (DSLR or mirrorless) camera to create photographs using raw file formats and fully manual controls. Topics covered … Read more