Patchers unite! Nucleus for a vibrant software community

With over 300 sold tickets the educational workshop program turned out to be the most important element of NODE08. For the first time in history of ‘vvvv’ users from all over the world gathered in Frankfurt to exchange knowledge and ideas in a series of workshops.

After years of collaborating online and knowing each other only via their virtual usernames on the vvvv.org forum, hundreds of community members met in person for the first time.

The individual participants backgrounds proved to be as diverse as the areas vvvv is applicable in: Besides students of the arts, design and computer sciences we had freelancers and employees of design and event agencies attending.

 
 

In a series of 25 workshops content comprised artistic as well as technical subjects: Ranging from ‘An Introduction to vvvv’ to more advanced topics like ‘Lighting Applications with DMX’, ‘Tracking Techniques’ or ‘Virtual Architecture and Installation Setup’ participants learned and shared their knowledge.

All workshops were hosted voluntarily by the makers of vvvv and some of the most active and knowledgable users and provided a concentrated atmosphere during the 7 days of the festival.

 
 

  • Casey Reas
  • Joreg
  • Tebjan Halm
  • Olivier Martin
  • Joseph Larralde
  • Sebastian Oschatz
  • Benedikt Grofl
  • Norbert Riedelsheimer
  • Katharina Mayrhofer
  • Philipp Steinweber
  • Chris Plant
  • Andreas Carlen
  • Thomas Hitthaler
  • Sebastian Gregor
  • Michael Mehling
  • O.M.A. International
  • Ingolf Heinsch
  • Jannis Kilian Kreft
  • Sven Thöne
  • David Brüll
  • Patrick Jost
  • Jochen Leinberger
  • Björn Schwarzer
 
 

  • Shader Programming
  • Max/Msp & VVVV communication
  • Bring your serial device!
  • vvvv for beginner I
  • vvvv for beginner II
  • DMX Interfaces for LEDs
  • Typographic Techniques
  • Projection Mapping
  • Tagtool and Node Kit featuring vvvv
  • Frame Based Animations & Feedback
  • Processing Printing Techniques
  • vvvv to Sensors and Microcontrollers I
  • vvvv to Sensors and Microcontrollers II
  • 2D Tracking Techniques
  • FreeFrame Video Effects Coding
  • vvvv Project Organisation
  • DX9 Shaders
  • Boygrouping & Deskewing Projections
  • My Favourite Nodes
  • Visual programming language paradigms
  • vvvv Plug-Ins Code your own Node
 

The Hackspace – a witches’ kitchen for lunatic ideas

As part of the workshop program NODE08 offered an open space for knowledge sharing and peer-to-peer learning, bringing together people with the same interests and a do-it-yourself mentality. For the first time the vvvv community met in a physical space where they could share resources and knowledge, work on patches together and create rendered output such as visuals and sound.

What are these strange gray boxes?
vvvv, the starting point of something big!

In 2008 none of the organisers, nor participants would have guessed, that out of this very first get-together of software developers a vibrant software community would grow.

Only a couple of years later vvvv turned into one of the leading software languages for creative coding and all kinds of innovative interactive media design.