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TouchDesigner Dublin Meetup – May Event

We are hosting an open TouchDesigner meetup with demos, hands-on learning, and space to share work with others using the software. This is part of a series of monthly events in collaboration with @noid_lab typically on the last Wednesday each month in the space, so this month it’s 27th May, 7-10pm.

Tickets are free – but registration via Eventbrite is required to secure your place.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/touchdesigner-meetup-dublin-tickets-1989876226359

Workshops:

In this session we will be hosting two workshops. The first will be run by Dan Kinlay, using MIDI input or keyboard input to manipulate a grid of points generated using Particle Operators and Instancing. This audio reactive animation will be demonstrated using an electric MIDI drum kit which will be open for participants to try themselves.

Following this, Serdar Buhan will be demonstrating how to use TouchDesigner for live coding performances with Strudel. In this workshop we’ll explore ways to connect Strudel and TouchDesigner over MIDI and OSC.

Format:

The session will run for around three hours in a relaxed, hands-on setting. With multiple rooms available at TOG Hackerspace, we can host beginner and advanced activities simultaneously, ensuring everyone gets the most out of the evening. The event will focus on learning, with a combination of scheduled short and long presentations/demonstrations. The last hour will take a more flattened and open approach, allowing the space for people to chat, share, learn, and explore TouchDesigner. Expect an informal, community-driven environment where the format adapts to participants. So if you would like to bring your laptop and learn the basics, share your projects, or connect with other using the software, this meetup offers a welcoming and supportive space to do so.

The event is also a great opportunity to meet other creative technologists and artists, and to continue building the growing TouchDesigner community in Ireland.

Contact us at noidlab.collective@gmail.com to share ideas for future sessions or to express interest in presenting your work.

A special thanks to TOG for allowing us to use the space for these events, and Derivative for supporting the project. The meetups are hosted each month by a group of artists and creative technologists:

https://www.tog.ie

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TouchDesigner Meetup Dublin @ TOG HACKERSPACE

We are hosting an open TouchDesigner meetup with demos, hands-on learning, and space to share work with others using the software. This is part of a series of monthly events in collaboration with @noid_lab typically on the last Wednesday each month in the space, so this month it’s 29th April, 7-10pm.

Tickets are free – but registration via Eventbrite is required to secure your place.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/touchdesigner-meetup-dublin-tickets-1987679859968

Workshops:

In this session we will be hosting two workshops. The first will be run by Pauric Freeman, the class will offer a deep dive into instancing in TouchDesigner, breaking down the core principles behind this technique and demonstrating how it can be used to create complex visuals. The session will also explore the integration of MediaPipe, showing how real-time gesture tracking can be used to control instanced systems.

Following this, Cailean will be working with.. nodes! but not in the traditional TouchDesigner sense. This small workshop will explore how the behaviour of nodes can be controlled through the Network Editor using Python scripts.

Format:

The session will run for around three hours in a relaxed, hands-on setting. With multiple rooms available at TOG Hackerspace, we can host beginner and advanced activities simultaneously, ensuring everyone gets the most out of the evening. The event will focus on learning, with a combination of scheduled short and long presentations/demonstrations. The last hour will take a more flattened and open approach, allowing the space for people to chat, share, learn, and explore TouchDesigner. Expect an informal, community-driven environment where the format adapts to participants. So if you would like to bring your laptop and learn the basics, share your projects, or connect with other using the software, this meetup offers a welcoming and supportive space to do so.

The event is also a great opportunity to meet other creative technologists and artists, and to continue building the growing TouchDesigner community in Ireland.

Contact us at noidlab.collective@gmail.com to share ideas for future sessions or to express interest in presenting your work.

A special thanks to TOG for allowing us to use the space for these events, and Derivative for supporting the project. The meetups are hosted each month by a group of artists and creative technologists:

https://www.tog.ie

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TouchDesigner Meetup Dublin – January

Date: 28th January 2026

Time: 7:00PM – 10:00PM

Tickets are free, but registration via Eventbrite is required to secure your place: 
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/touchdesigner-meetup-dublin-tickets-1980805845606?aff=oddtdtcreator

We are delighted to announce that TouchDesigner Monthly Meetup series in collaboration with TOG Hackerspace will continue heading into 2026. Thanks to the support of Derivative, we will be able to sustain the series for the next six months. In addition to this, we have decided to create a name for our small collective of organisers and practitioners called NóidLab. Please give us a follow, as we aim to promote details about upcoming events and plan on sharing some of the BTS behind the meetups.

We plan on re-using the same structure as last year, as we want to keep the project sustainable and accessible for everyone involved. Each session runs for around three hours in a relaxed, hands-on setting. With multiple rooms available at TOG Hackerspace, we can host beginner and advanced activities simultaneously, ensuring everyone gets the most out of the evening. The first two hours will focus on learning, with a combination of scheduled short and long presentations/demonstrations. The last hour will take a more flattened and open approach, allowing the space for people to chat, share, learn, and explore TouchDesigner. Expect an informal, community-driven environment where the format adapts to participants. So if you would like to bring your laptop and learn the basics, share your projects, or connect with other using the software, this meetup offers a welcoming and supportive space to do so.

The event is also a great opportunity to meet other creative technologists and artists, and to continue building the growing TouchDesigner community in Ireland.

We’ve also set up a Discord server for ongoing discussion and planning. Join us there, or contact us @ noidlab.collective@gmail.com to share ideas for future sessions or to express interest in presenting your work: https://discord.gg/6s3WMdH2

A special thanks to TOG for allowing us to use the space for these events, and Derivative for supporting the project. The meetups are hosted each month by a group of artists and creative technologists:

Workshops:

For the first set of demonstrations will be run by two of our orgainsers—Ciaran & Serdar.

Ciaran will focus on utilising POPs to manipulate 3D models created with 2D images. Following this, Serdar will be demonstrating how to build a digital instrument using TouchDesigner and MediaPipe.

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Last TouchDesigner Ireland Meetup in 2025

Join us for the third in our series of monthly meetups for anyone interested in TouchDesigner, from complete beginners to experienced creators. Whether you’d like to learn the basics, share your projects, or connect with others using the software, this meetup offers a welcoming and supportive space to do so.

Each session runs for around two hours in a relaxed, hands-on setting. With multiple rooms available at Tóg Hackerspace, we can host beginner and advanced activities simultaneously, ensuring everyone gets the most out of the evening.

Expect an informal, community-driven environment where the format adapts to participants. You’re welcome to bring a laptop to follow along, showcase your work, or simply join the discussion. The event is a great opportunity to meet other creative technologists and artists, and to continue building the growing TouchDesigner community in Ireland.

Join us on our Discord to share ideas for future sessions or to express interest in presenting your work: https://discord.gg/6s3WMdH2

https://www.tog.ie

The meetups are hosted each month by a group of artists and creative technologists:

Ciaran Eaton
Ciaran Eaton is a Creative Technologist and Educator based in Dublin. With a background in audio and visual arts production, Ciaran integrates visual programming environments such as TouchDesigner with open-source software and aims to foster an active community around creative workflows.
Website

Serdar Buhan
Serdar is a software engineer based in Dublin with a curiosity for creative technology and building interactive experiences. In his spare time, he explores tools such as TouchDesigner, Processing, Blender, AR, photogrammetry, pen plotters, and generative AI.
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Cailean Finn
Cailean Finn is an Irish media artist, researcher, and creative technologist from Waterford, Ireland. His practice investigates the idiosyncratic nature of human–machine relationships, drawing from computational histories and engaging with technologies and practices such as creative coding, artificial intelligence/life, game development, and physical computing.
Website

Pauric Freeman
Pauric Freeman is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin, working across audiovisual performance, sound, and installation. His practice explores translation, using data collected from live instruments as the basis for real-time audiovisual compositions.
Website
Instagram

Louise Nolan
Louise Nolan is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working in glass, print and digital media. Her work is transmedia integrating digital techniques with physical installations to create an interactive multi-sensory experience for the viewer. She is a visiting lecturer at NCAD and TU Dublin in physical computing, creative coding and emerging media practice.
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Gwen Stevenson
Gwen Stevenson is a multidisciplinary artist exploring memory, loss, and resilience through interactive installation, experimental film, and durational performance. She uses digital technologies, motion capture, and generative systems to create immersive experiences reflecting ecological fragility and transformation. Collaboration with communities, artists, and organisations is central to her practice. Gwen is preparing for artist residencies in 2026 at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, School of Experimental Arts, Beijing, and Art Arcadia, Derry.
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Let us know if you can make it on our Meetup page here:
https://www.meetup.com/tog-dublin-hackerspace/events/312369261/?slug=tog-dublin-hackerspace&eventId=312369261

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TouchDesigner Dublin back for a 2nd meetup in TOG

Wednesday, November 19th, 7-9pm

We are delighted to be hosting the 2nd Touchdesigner Dublin meetup at TOG on Wednesday, 19th of November 7-9 pm. Each session runs for around two hours in a relaxed, hands-on setting. With multiple rooms available at Tog Hackerspace, we can host beginner and advanced activities simultaneously, ensuring everyone gets the most out of the evening.

Join us in the space for the second in a series of monthly meetups for anyone interested in TouchDesigner, from complete beginners to experienced creators. Whether you’d like to learn the basics, share your projects, or connect with others using the software, this meetup offers a welcoming and supportive space to do so.

Expect an informal, community-driven environment where the format adapts to participants. You’re welcome to bring a laptop to follow along, showcase your work, or simply join the discussion. The event is a great opportunity to meet other creative technologists and artists, and to continue building the growing TouchDesigner community in Ireland.

We’ve also set up a Discord server for ongoing discussion and planning. Join us there to share ideas for future sessions or to express interest in presenting your work: https://discord.gg/UPCh4ywV9p

The meetups are hosted each month by a group of artists and creative technologists:

https://www.tog.ie

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Ciaran Eaton

Ciaran Eaton is a Creative Technologist and Educator based in Dublin. With a background in audio and visual arts production, Ciaran integrates visual programming environments such as TouchDesigner with open-source software and aims to foster an active community around creative workflows.

Website

Serdar Buhan

Serdar is a software engineer based in Dublin with a curiosity for creative technology and building interactive experiences. In his spare time, he explores tools such as TouchDesigner, Processing, Blender, AR, photogrammetry, pen plotters, and generative AI.
Instagram

Cailean Finn

Cailean Finn is an Irish media artist, researcher, and creative technologist from Waterford, Ireland. His practice investigates the idiosyncratic nature of human–machine relationships, drawing from computational histories and engaging with technologies and practices such as creative coding, artificial intelligence/life, game development, and physical computing.

Website

Pauric Freeman

Pauric Freeman is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin, working across audiovisual performance, sound, and installation. His practice explores translation, using data collected from live instruments as the basis for real-time audiovisual compositions.

Website

Instagram

Louise Nolan

Louise Nolan is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working in glass, print and digital media. Her work is transmedia integrating digital techniques with physical installations to create an interactive multi-sensory experience for the viewer. She is a visiting lecturer at NCAD and TU Dublin in physical computing, creative coding and emerging media practice. 

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New TouchDesigner Dublin MeetUp starting on Wednesday October 22nd

We are delighted to be hosting TouchDesigner MeetUp Dublin in our space. It’s new monthly meetup for anyone curious about TouchDesigner software, from complete beginners to experienced creators. Whether you want to learn the basics to build interactive 3D and 2D audio-visual applications, share your projects, or connect with others using the software, the meetup provides a welcoming space to do so. The event is free to attend and you can indicate your interest in joining the session here on meetup.com

Each session will run for about two hours in a relaxed, hands-on setting. With multiple rooms available in the space we can run beginner and advanced activities side by side if needed, so everyone gets the most from the evening.

Expect an informal, community-driven environment where the format adapts to participants. You can bring a laptop to follow along, show your work, or simply join the conversation. The event is an opportunity to meet other creative technologists and artists, and to further develop the growing TouchDesigner community in Ireland.

Meet the TouchDesigner Dublin team :-

Ciaran Eaton

Ciaran Eaton is a Creative Technologist and Educator based in Dublin. With a background in audio and visual arts production, Ciaran integrates visual programming environments such as TouchDesigner with open-source software and aims to foster an active community around creative workflows.

Website

Serdar Buhan

Serdar is a software engineer based in Dublin with a curiosity for creative technology and building interactive experiences. In his spare time, he explores tools such as TouchDesigner, Processing, Blender, AR, photogrammetry, pen plotters, and generative AI.

Instagram

Cailean Finn

Cailean Finn is an Irish media artist, researcher, and creative technologist from Waterford, Ireland. His practice investigates the idiosyncratic nature of human–machine relationships, drawing from computational histories and engaging with technologies and practices such as creative coding, artificial intelligence/life, game development, and physical computing.

Website

Pauric Freeman

Pauric Freeman is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin, working across audiovisual performance, sound, and installation. His practice explores translation, using data collected from live instruments as the basis for real-time audiovisual compositions.

Website

Instagram

Louise Nolan

Louise Nolan is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working in glass, print and digital media. Her work is transmedia integrating digital techniques with physical installations to create an interactive multi-sensory experience for the viewer. She is a visiting lecturer at NCAD and TU Dublin in physical computing, creative coding and emerging media practice. Louise is also a host for Maker night at TOG.

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