dadageek archive
Since 2016, dadageek has offered over 125 course sessions and workshops totaling over 1,400 student enrollments, teaching everything from foundational coding and hardware to real-time visuals and spatial audio. Alongside that teaching, we've hosted over 80 public events, including student exhibitions and live audiovisual performances. Learn more about our course history and select past events below.
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dadageek offers courses and workshops at the intersection of art, media, and technology, taught by a diverse range of instructors from our home base in Austin as well as visiting artists from around the world. Below is the full history of what we've taught, from foundational courses in Arduino and Processing to our latest workshops in TouchDesigner, spatial audio, and real-time 3D.
TD Toolkit: Build Your Own VJ Interface — Aug 2026
Projection Mapping for Immersive Art — Aug 2026, Jan 2025
Interactive Video in TouchDesigner — Aug 2026, May 2026, Feb 2026, Jul 2025, May 2025, Jan 2025, Oct 2024, Jul 2024
TouchDesigner Level-Up: Creating with RayTK — May 2026, Mar 2026
Designing Interactive Light: LEDs, DMX, and Pixel Mapping — May 2026
TouchDesigner Level-Up: Dive Into POPs — May 2026, Mar 2026
Patterns of Identity: Exploring Max/MSP for Studio & Stage with Gábor Lázár — Mar 2026
MXR Bootcamp: Real Time 3D for Show Visuals using MXR PRO — Feb 2026
TouchDesigner Level-Up: POP Fundamentals — Feb 2026
Non-Linear Sequencing with Max: Workshop by Tom Hall — Aug 2025
Immersive Audio with Ableton Live — Aug 2025
TouchDesigner Boot Camp — Aug 2025
Realtime Video Performance with Resolume Arena — Jul 2025, Feb 2020, Nov 2018
Intro to Modular Synths with VCV Rack — Jul 2025
Getting Started with MXR! Real Time 3D for VJs and Creators — Jul 2025
Level Up: Interactive Installations with TouchDesigner — May 2025
Build your own Fantasy IDE — Mar 2025
Light Art with Laser Technology — Jan 2025
Immersive Lighting Design with Pixel Mapping — Oct 2024
Spatial Audio Basics — Jul 2024
Bridging the Gap between Hardware / Software in Music — Jan 2022
Intro to Live Coding Workshop — Jun 2021
Exploring Generative Tools and Techniques in Ableton Live 11 — Jan 2021
Producing in Ableton Live - From Concepts to Completed Tracks — Sep 2020, Mar 2020, Aug 2019, Nov 2018
Augmented Reality Art in Unity — Sep 2020
Programming Havoc - Creating Renegade A/V Performance Systems — Aug 2020
Free Ableton Workshops - Day 2: Produce a Techno Track in Ableton Live — Aug 2020
Free Ableton Workshops - Day 3: Meet Max for Live! — Aug 2020
Free Ableton Workshops - Day 1: Signal Processing with Ableton Live — Aug 2020
Micro Computer Music — Aug 2020, Aug 2019
Create a Retro 2-D Platformer in Unity — Aug 2020
Glitch Art and Video Manipulation in Processing — Aug 2020
Creating Audio Reactive Visuals in TouchDesigner — Aug 2020
Intro to Arduino: Creating Light and Sound — Aug 2020
Making Synths with Arduino — Jun 2020, Mar 2020
Intermediate Production in Ableton Live: Unlocking the Secrets of Modulation, Sound Design, and Beat Science — May 2020, Nov 2019, Mar 2019
Intro to Synthesis and Sound Design in Max — May 2020
Intro to Music Theory for Multimedia Artists — May 2020, Sep 2019
Make an A/V Homunculus with Raspberry Pi — May 2020
Intro to TouchDesigner for Generative Content Creation — May 2020
Free Ableton Live Crash Course - Day 2: Intro to Digital Synths in Live — Mar 2020
Free Ableton Live Crash Course - Day 1: Intro to Sample-based Music Production — Mar 2020
Programming in Max: Intro to Interactive Music Composition — Mar 2020
Intro to Augmented Reality Art — Mar 2020
Expressive Interfaces: Programming MIDI with Arduino — Mar 2020
Build an Analog Drum Machine — Feb 2020
Build an Analog Synthesizer — Nov 2019
Intro to Lighting Technology: DMX & Programming — Nov 2019
A Beginner's Guide to Max for Live — Nov 2019, Jun 2019
Intermediate Mural Painting — Nov 2019
Intro to Game Development in Unity — Nov 2019
Intro to Arduino for Artists — Nov 2019, Mar 2017, Dec 2016
Build Your Own 3D Printer — Nov 2019
Intro to Processing for 3D Sensors — Nov 2019
Interactive Light-Based Art — Sep 2019
Introduction to Unity for Augmented Reality Art — Aug 2019, Jun 2019
Intro to Digital Video Programming with Max — Aug 2019
Intro to E-Textiles and Wearable Electronics — Aug 2019
Advanced Interaction with Kinect & TouchDesigner — Jun 2019
Composing Interactive Music: Making Algorithmic Compositions with MaxMSP — Jun 2019
REPURPOSE: Hardware Hacking for Artists and Musicians — Jun 2019, Mar 2019
Motion Interactions with Processing — Jun 2019
Introduction to TouchDesigner for Real-Time Development — Mar 2019
Electrify Your Art: Intro to Arduino for Artists — Mar 2019
Sound/Sense/Space: Creating Spatial Sound Environments with Sensors — Mar 2019
Physical Computing & Sensing for Real-Time Performance with TouchDesigner — Feb 2019
Computational Patterns and Process with p5.js — Nov 2018
Intro to Interactive Light-Based Art — Nov 2018, Mar 2018, Dec 2017
Intro to Mural Painting — Nov 2018
Intro to Digital Synthesis and Performance with Max — Nov 2018, Mar 2018, Sep 2017, Mar 2017
Raspberry Pi: Interactive Video and Sound with Processing and Pure Data — Nov 2018
Intro to Digital Video Synthesis with Max — Sep 2018, Dec 2017
Intro to Analog Audio Electronics — Sep 2018, Aug 2017, Mar 2017, Dec 2016
Build an Analog Modular Synthesizer — Sep 2018
Make Art with Arduino — Jun 2018
3D Modeling for Art Proposals — May 2018
Intro to Robotic Art — Dec 2017, Dec 2017, Mar 2017
Generative Collage and Glitch Art Using Processing — Dec 2017, Aug 2017
Designing Synthesizers with Arduino — Dec 2017, Dec 2016
Intro to Arduino — Sep 2017
Creating Interactive Installations with Leap Motion + MaxMSP — Jan 2017
Create Interactive Web Art with p5.js — Dec 2016
Create Interactive Fiction with Twine — Dec 2016, Sep 2016
Build Sound & Light Synthesizers Using Arduino — Aug 2016
Create Generative Sculptures with Everyday Objects Using Processing — Aug 2016
Select dadageek Events and Exhibitions
2026
CAST: Premiere Night - March 28, 2026
dadageek Presents: GÁBOR LÁZÁR | JOAN DARK | BLEND.MODE - March 21, 2026
dadageek Student Exhibition (Winter 2026) - March 13, 2026
dadageek and New Media Contemporary Present: BRIAN WENNER | JAMES TALAMBAS | PULSECODER - Feb 28, 2026
2025
dadageek presents: Austin Camerata, Hexpartner, pulseCoder + Stargrave - Oct 18 2025
dadageek Student Exhibition (Summer 2025) - Sep. 5 2025
Tom Hall, Alex DL, SV1 - August 30, 2025
QUADRANT v8.0 - August 2, 2025
dadageek Student Exhibition (Spring 2025) - Jun 20 2025
The Sound Around Us - May 10, 2025
Bring Your Own Beamer Night - May 9, 2025
QUADRANT v7 - January 15, 2025
dadageek student exhibition (Winter 2025) - March 14, 2025
LIVECODE 2025 - March 9, 2025
QUADRANT v6 - January 15, 2025
AM Architect Album Release Event - January 7, 2025
2024
dadageek student exhibition (Fall 2024) - December 6, 2024
QUADRANT v5 - October 28, 2024
Stargrave / XUIQUEN / blend.mode / AM Architect -
September 21, 2024
dadageek student exhibition (Summer 2024) - August 30, 2024
QUADRANT v4 - April 6, 2024
blacklight featuring Alberto Novello - April 27, 2024
QUADRANT v3 - April 6, 2024
Livecode at dadaLab - March 10, 2024
ATX DAO Artist Residency - February 24, 2024
QUADRANT v2 - January 20, 2024
2023
QUADRANT 78722 - September 23, 2023
re:BOOT - dadaLab 2.0 Opening Event - July 15, 2023
re:FORMAT - DADAGEEK EXHIBITION & MOVING PARTY -
May 20, 2023
VISION COLLIDER - January 21, 2023
2022
Fall 2022 Exhibition
Live electronic music by: DYLAN CAMERON | BRAINWAVVE | DEVRAS PLEXI | DEFERLOW | DAVID SLOWING | LOST CAT MAGNET | HEXSEQ | DSTRY
Multimedia dance performance by: VESSEL PROJECT (Emily Rushing - Rosalyn Nasky - David Sydiongco)
Artwork by: Jamal Hussain | Abhi Velaga | dadaLab | and more!
Live visuals by: PANOPTIKON PARTY | DEVRAS PLEXI
SPRING 2022 Exhibition
Featuring performances by: CRYSTAL VOYAGER, DEVRAS PLEXI, LONG TONGUE, DEFERLOW, HAPPY DISASTER, TETRA FYRE, ODDMANRUSH
Featuring artwork by:
FANCHY Art: activating the Phase Hall with a 10 channel audio installation
Art Island Tech Team: interactive projection-mapped work Mycelium Vision
Jamal Husain: immersive video room
Hunter Cure: CRT installation
David Sydiongco: Interactive point-cloud projections
Brian Gawlik: Generative landscape art
Christopher Allen: 3D Projection mapping
Colin Drake: Aurduino-based generative visuals
2021
FALL
Making Synths with Arduino
Intro to Live Collaborative Live Coding
Projection Mapping and VJing in Resolume Arena
Expressive Interfaces
Interactive Ableton
Create a Retro 2D Platformer
Summer
Intro to Arduino for Artists
Interactive Video with TouchDesigner
REPURPOSE: Hardware Hacking for Artists and Musicians
Algorithmic Music and Sound Design in Max
SPRING
Making Synths with Arduino
Interactive Audio in Max
Glitch Art in Processing
Expressive Interfaces
Producing in Ableton Live
Winter
Making Synths with Arduino
Video Performance in Max
Create a Retro 2-D Platformer
Intro to Robotic Art
Intermediate Production in Ableton
Music Theory for New Media Artists
2020
FALL
Augmented Reality Art in Unity
Producing in Ableton Live
Programming Havoc - Creating Renegade A/V Performance Systems
Glitch Art and Video Manipulation in Processing
Intro to Arduino: Creating Light and Sound
SUMMER
Making Synths with Arduino
Touchless User Interfaces & Interactive Video in TouchDesigner
Make an A/V Homunculus with Raspberry Pi
Build an Analog Drum Machine
Intermediate Production in Ableton Live
Intro to Music Theory for Multimedia Artists
Intro to Synthesis and Sound Design in Max
Intro to TouchDesigner for Generative Content Creation
SPRING
Producing in Ableton Live - From Concept to Completed Tracks
Realtime Video and Projection Mapping in Resolume Arena
Programming in Max: Intro to Interactive Music Composition
Intro to Augmented Reality Art
Expressive Interfaces: Programming MIDI with Arduino
WINTER
Build Your Own 3D Printer
Intermediate Production in Ableton Live: Unlocking the Secrets of Modulation, Sound Design, and Beat Science
Intro to Lighting Technology: DMX & Programming
Intro to Arduino for Artists
A Beginner's Guide to Max for Live
Intro to Processing for 3D Sensors
Intro to Game Development In Unity
Build an Analog Synthesizer
Intermediate Mural Painting
2019
Fall
Introduction to Unity for Augmented Reality Art
Micro Computer Music
Intro to Music Theory for Multimedia Artists
Intro to Digital Video Programming with Max
Interactive Light-based Art
SUMMER
Introduction to Unity for Augmented Reality Art
Composing Interactive Music: Making Algorithmic Compositions with MaxMSP
REPURPOSE: Hardware Hacking for Artist and Musicians
Motion Interactions with Processing
A Beginner's Guide to Max for Live
Spring
REPURPOSE: Hardware Hacking for Artists and Musicians
Sound/Sense/Space: Creating Spatial Sound Environments with Sensors
Electrify Your Art: Intro to Arduino for Artists
Introduction to TouchDesigner for real-time development
Intermediate Production in Ableton Live: Unlocking the Secrets of Modulation, Sound Design, and Beat Science
Physical Computing & Sensing for Real-time Performance with Touchdesigner
Winter
Raspberry Pi: Interactive Video and Sound with Processing and Pure Data
Intro to Mural Painting
Intro to Interactive Light-Based Art
Computational Patterns and Process with P5.js
Resolume Arena: Intro to Realtime Video and Projection Mapping
Intro to Digital Synthesis and Performance with Max
Producing in Ableton Live - From Concept to Completed Tracks
2018
Fall
Intro to Digital Video Synthesis with Max
Intro to Analog Audio Electronics
Build an Analog Modular Synthesizer
Summer
Make Art with Arduino
3D Modeling for Art Proposals
Spring
Intro to Interactive Light-Based Art
Intro to Digital Synthesis and Performance with Max
Winter
Intro to Robotic Art
Intro to Digital Video Synthesis with Max
Intro to Interactive Light-Based Art
Designing Synthesizers with Arduino
Generative Collage and Glitch Art Using Processing
Intro to Robotic Art - Workshop
2017
Fall
Intro to Digital Synthesis and Performance with Max
Intro to Analog Audio Electronics
Intro to Arduino
Generative Collage and Glitch Art Using Processing
Spring
Intro to Analog Audio Electronics
Intro to Digital Synthesis and Performance with Max
Intro to Arduino for Artists
Intro to Robotic Art
Winter
Create Interactive Web Art with p5.js
Intro to Arduino for Artists
Designing Synthesizers with Arduino
Intro to Analog Audio Electronics
2016
Fall
Build Sound & Light Synthesizers Using Arduino
Create Generative Sculptures with Everyday Objects Using Processing
Create Interactive Fiction Using Twine