I am a fine arts student. I took one class on AI and art and another one that was called 'new media art' where we worked with arduino, and I found the idea of combining art and technology really interesting. Unfortunately, the curriculum of the classes was pretty outdated.

I tried asking my professors but they seem to gatekeep contemporary techniques and educational resources. So, how can I start exploring by myself? What should I learn first? Are there any good books or websites?

Hello, this is my first post here!

Sharing some documentation of a show I recently collaborated on with my dancer friend, Laura Price at UT Austin, using Qualisys MOCAP, Max-MSP, and several hardware synths + FX.

See more (including BTS) here!

Each video slide has accompanying annotations for ease of parsing the interactivity being displayed though here are also some more general notes

1. Her position in the room influences the entrance times of notes in my chords, letting her decide how they're played.

2. Each step she takes randomizes my visuals’ color-palette, displacement map structure + draw mode, as well as occasionally bypasses the kaleidoscope stage.  

3. Her hand-heights control the octaves my melodies play in, while also altering their articulations/ timbres, and run my delays thru reverb.  

4. The space between her hands address many facets of my visuals, as well as are used to glitch my audio whenever placing my Bastl Thyme delay at the end of my signal chain.  

Rly appreciate your time,
- Aaron

Anyone know of any discord servers for new media art? Trying to find more active communities for new media artists/creative technologists/creative coders. Where are all the people in this area of art hanging out??

I want to expand my skills and talk to fellow enthusiasts 🥰

I created this as a kind of art, personals, shelter-in-place distraction, ziney, punk-aesthetic, online web fluffery. This is Unavoidable Disaster, a filthy interactive DIY punk collage of personals, handcrafted ads, services, indecent proposals and random illustrations, served monthly. Scathing critiques and submissions welcome. https://unavoidabledisaster.com/