A collection of tutorials for various teaching projects and workshops.
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Tools
This is a list of some of the basic tools that any student of interaction art/design/play/whatever should have access to. This is very much a work-in-progress document and was principally designed for my students and colleagues at the Master Media Design and the needs of the larger community at the HEAD – Genève. This list of tools has been integrated into a larger collection of video and text-based tutorials that you will find at abstractmachine.net/tutorials/tools.
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Stratifications
Stratifications was a hybrid class mixing painting and creative coding, created with the artist Jérémie Setton. In this class, we explored the generation images through a process of sedimentation, or "stratifications", i.e. layering material progressively to generate an image. This on-line adaptation includes all the videos used to introduce students to the basic functions of programming with the environement P5.
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Unity VR
This tutorial on building a Unity VR project from scratch was created for the Master Media Media, HEAD – Genève. Unity is the name of the 1977 album by the curious jazzman from the planet Saturn, Sun Ra and his Jet Set Omniverse Arkestra. It is also the name of the unreleased psychadelic GameCube title built in 2004 by the cult game creator Jeff Minter. It is also the name of the most popular engine for creating video games.
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Raspberry Pi
A series of tutorials and checklists for creating art/design/play objects and installations with Raspberry Pi devices.
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Archives
These archives contain older, mostly out of date tutorials on various subjects, most of the technologies expored here are out of date.