Introduction to TouchDesigner

“This workshop is structured to balance collaborative and individual modes of creative inquiry, with a special emphasis on the process of making rather than the final product. Throughout the session, we will explore the ideas of observation, imaginative drawing, and perceptual drawing—encouraging participants to engage deeply with both what they see and what they imagine.

The collaborative phase utilizes a randomized exchange protocol, foregrounding collective authorship, iterative transformation, and the generative potential of unpredictability within group practice. In the individual phase, participants will draw on insights, motifs, or narrative strategies encountered during the collaborative work to develop a solo composition. This segment encourages personal reflection, synthesis, and the articulation of an individual visual narrative, while considering how collaborative processes can inform and enrich independent practice.

The session concludes with a group discussion, reflecting on the interplay between collective and individual authorship, and the ways in which chance, collaboration, observation, and imagination can expand the possibilities of narrative and mark-making in drawing.”

Students will walk away with one or several drawings - the fruits of their collaborative and individual labor.

Instructor:“EJ Hauser (they/them) lives and works in both Brooklyn and Upstate NY, and is represented by Derek Eller Gallery in New York City and Haverkampf & Leistenschneider in Berlin. Hauser’s paintings are both graphic and open to interpretation, teetering between iconography and something familiar but abstract. This imagery shifts between omnivorous references both ancient and current — the paintings are mysterious talismans, employing buzzing pallets and marks that dance. Stuttering lines form a visual code like musical notes, which coalesce with atmospheric layers to create ineffable messages. Hauser ‘s work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, and Turps Banana, among others. Hauser received a BFA from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA and an MFA from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. They are a recipient of the 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize. In the Fall of 2023, Hauser was the Teiger Mentor in the Arts at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

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