TouchDesigner Meetup 02

Web-Based Augmented Reality for Artists

 

Workshop by Valérie Chartrand

 

Duration: 2 hours
Reserve your spot HERE (limited capacity)

 

Description: This workshop is designed for artists interested in exploring the world of web-based augmented reality (AR). You’ll learn how to create interactive AR experiences that are free, open-source, and accessible through a web browser—no need for users to download an app. With just a few lines of simple HTML code, you’ll be able to bring your drawings to life through AR, all without any prior programming experience.

Participants will be guided step-by-step to create their own AR triggers, using a combination of traditional drawing techniques and digital tools. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have the skills to design and share your own web-based AR experiences, with endless creative possibilities to explore.

 

What to Bring:

A smartphone (no computer required).
Drawing supplies (basic materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own).

Maximum of 10 participants.

Image: Valérie Chartrand. Cyclical Emergence. 2020. Photo credit: Derek Bruekner.

 

Valérie Chartrand’s practice focuses on the loss of biodiversity and reduction in insect populations due to climate change and human interference in insect life cycles. She primarily chooses imprint techniques, using found insects and non-toxic materials. She has been weaving in open source augmented reality in her work since 2017 to attempt to bring arthropods to life on a different scale and to reveal the presence of nonhumans that often goes unnoticed in our environment. 

 

The workshop is offered as part of Valérie Chartrand’s artist residencies at the Kharouba Lab and Artengine in 2024, through which her work explores the intricate relationships between monarch butterflies and their environment.