Note:    The complete workshop concept has been developed by the workshop team during the week before NODE in the fantastic rooms of our partner Frankfurt LAB. If you are already in Frankfurt on Monday you are welcome to go to the public workshop-introduction at Franfkurt LAB at 4pm and meet the dancers, workshoppers and workshop participants already.

Frankfurt LAB / Schmidtstraße 12 / 60326 Frankfurt am Main. Tram 11 / Station: Mönchhofstraße. The actual workshop then takes place at the Frankfurter Kunstverein

Together with ID_ Frankfurt we analyze which rules and settings are suitable for a balanced use of different media on stage.

The workshops result is a small performance which will be premiered on Friday Nov. 19th. during the related lecture session.

VVVV knowledge not mandatory. Please bring a windows laptop

This is a daily workshop

Commit yourself to one of the topics of the brand new daily creative workshops. You will be working with one team for the whole week. Each of the daily workshop will result in either a performance or installation so you can display the fruits of four days of patching, thinking and sweating to the community. Secure your place in the daily groups NOW! Seats are limited!

Please note: Committing to one of the daily workshop does not mean that you will miss the rest of the Forum. You can still book other workshops even if they take place at the same time. Please make sure to talk with your daily team about your timings and plannings in order to ensure a beautiful result of your daily workshop.

‘Projecting On The Things’ is another all week long workshop served up by Chris Plant (catweasel) and Elliot Woods (sugokuGENKI) covering techniques and topics on the art of projection mapping. We are inviting people to use projectors to redefine the aesthetic meaning of a set of objects. Individual teams will develop works (large and small) through the process, and these will be exhibited at the end of the Node festival during the Friday and Saturday lecture sessions.

This is a daily workshop

Commit yourself to one of the topics of the brand new daily creative workshops. You will be working with one team for the whole week. Each of the daily workshop will result in either a performance or installation so you can display the fruits of four days of patching, thinking and sweating to the community. Secure your place in the daily groups NOW! Seats are limited!

Please note: Committing to one of the daily workshop does not mean that you will miss the rest of the Forum. You can still book other workshops even if they take place at the same time. Please make sure to talk with your daily team about your timings and plannings in order to ensure a beautiful result of your daily workshop.

Der 'VVVV für Einsteiger' Workshop findet an zwei vollen Tagen satt.  Nach einer Einführung in die Benutzeroberfläche von VVVV werdet ihr die Besonderheiten grafischer Programmierung kennenlern und eure ersten, eigenen Programme erstellen. Keine Vorkenntnisse nötig.

Transformations are the basic building block of any animation in 2d and 3d. You need them to position individual graphical elements in space but also for cameras looking at them and viewports within the renderer. We will have a look on how to build virtual cameras, billdboards, multiscreen applications, and pixelbased rendering.

Plugin coding for the absolut beginner. While you should already be familiar with patching in vvvv this workshop will teach you the basics you need to know to start coding your own nodes. You'll learn how to use version control to access the open source code templates to start from. We'll give you an overview of the possibilities the vvvv plugininterfaces offer and guide you step by step through the process of creating simple nodes with the basic pintypes (value, string, color, enum, transformation).

This workshop will cover advanced c# programming concepts: OOP / Threading / Pointers / Data Structures / SlimDX / File Access...

Then we will demonstrate how to use these concepts in various plugin related contexts: Device Access / Optimization / Network Operations / Animations / Meshes / Textures

After discussing terms and principles of character animation in 3D computer graphics, you'll learn about vvvv's possibilities to load, create and animate character rigs. At the end of the workshop you'll have built your very own, fully animated beat-em-up-character you can let fight against others.

This workshop is about getting your stuff video tracked. We will have some theory first like lighting, camera, space setting and goals of tracking. Some background shaders, extraction methods and filters are shown and discussed.

Finally at second part of workshop, we will have a deeper look at some
tracking plugins for vvvv, its provided data and how we can transform it into useful interaction.

Fritzing is a powerful tool for enabling designers and artists to work with Arduino or other electronics platforms on a more professional level.

In this workshop, you will learn how to use this tool to empower your work, be it as a sketcher, learner, teacher, or getting ready for an exhibition.

vvvv has many faces: Firstly there is a huge node library itself covering a variety of purposes. Then there is the actual edit-while-running environment. But finally there is also a more theoretical view of vvvv as a graphical programming language with its syntax and semantics. In turn we will talk about its concepts, like dataflow and modularity, and its primitives, like nodes, pins & links. Concerning data we will talk about types and subtypes, discuss implicit vs. explicit spread types and their relation to generic types. Concerning code we will talk about evaluation strategies, purely functional nodes, states and their position within space and time. We will promote features and attack drawbacks with ideas for future versions.

During this workshop we'll explain what physical computing and how it relates with VVVV. We'll use a modular sensor system called the Tinker Toolkit to make it all incredibly simple for the participants.

BEWARE: The workshops Arduino I and Arduino II are the NOT consecutive. They are the exact same thing, covering the exact same topics, both starting from zero. There's two of them so more people can learn about Arduino. Just so you know. If you still want to do both, that's cool with us.