Creative Coding at the Inflection Point

Undergraduate / Graduate

This hands-on class will serve as a wide-ranging introduction to "creative coding" in new media art, computer graphics, live performance and visual effects. But this is no normal class, for this is no normal time - all of these well ordered histories and practical skills are about to be transformed by AI and nobody knows what's going to happen to "creative coding" next. What will sitting in front of a computer created with computation in these fields look like next year (or next quarter)? We'll survey and reconsider both popular and oddball programming tactics and languages, the professional mainstream as well as historical paths not taken across visual art, music and mixed reality - all to form clues as to what might, can and should happen next to the tools we use to create with computers. And then we'll see if we can get there first.