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Derivative is dedicated to advance the way we make art. Derivative produces interactive art projects and provides TouchDesigner, Derivative's software product for designing interactive art and visualization.

August 12, 2008 - Our next-gen beta of TouchDesigner is now available at derivative.ca.

  Download prior TouchMixer version 017.
  Free TouchArt 017 Complete - download 700 Megs including 80 synths


  TouchDesigner 077 Released!

   

The next generation of Touch software is now available at www.derivative.ca!

  Rush on 2008 Tour with Derivative Visuals

   

Derivative produced custom live visuals for nine songs of the 2007 and 2008 tours. Visit the Rush 2004 tour pages.

  INTERVALS by Warne / Krivel and next-gen TouchDesigner

   

INTERVALS is a series of interactive video artworks that explore the stretching of live video in time to visualize the monstrous time creatures we have become. Using surveillance systems and custom applications built in TouchDesigner, the project culminated in an electronic public artwork for Toronto's first Nuit Blanche.

  YouAreWatchingUs - Weimar, Germany

   

Take apart a bunch of image scanners, mount them on the walls and in the washroom stalls of a Weimar club, connect them to TouchDesigner, and you get this manifestation of unrestrained creativity. More appearances coming soon. Bring your own Windex (Sidolin).

  Next-Gen Media Controller

   

100% Cotton - the new wonder-material.

  Plastikman Live

   

Richie Hawtin and Derivative introduced new technologies that enable him to perform music-synced visuals from Ableton Live and his new CTRL MIDI controller. Hawtin a.k.a. Plastikman headlined Montreal's Mutek festival in June 2004.

  Richie Hawtin - GX Magazine - Sounds Like Motion

   

GX Magazine looked into the Plastikman and Derivative collaboration (700k), or download the rich media verision with movies (23 meg). (View in Adobe Acrobat 6 or later.)

  Prada Epicenter in Tokyo - Herzog & de Meuron, Architects

   

The new Prada Tokyo Epicenter building integrates five realtime architectural projections by Derivative. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the Prada Epicenter is a breakthrough in concept and design. More links: ID | süddeutsche | dezain | NY Times | ArchiDose | Observer | TokyoShoes | supereva

  Noboru Tsubaki - Cochineal

   

Japanese media artist Noboru Tsubaki's work Cochineal is featured this year as part of the Fantaisies Cybernétiques: Hommes et Robots exhibit at the Japanese Cultural Centre in Paris. In the form of a large fiberglass insect that lures visitors into its "web", Cochineal is one in a series of socially and politically motivated installations by Tsubaki.
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