Real-Time AI Worldbuilding with TouchDesigner, Futurespaces x Yvonne Fang
Join us for a 3-hour hands-on workshop led by Yvonne Fang and presented by Futurespaces, where participants will explore the creative and technical possibilities of AI-powered worldbuilding. Using real-time image and text generation tools, you’ll construct a responsive virtual environment and a generative narrative driven by large language models (LLMs) and real-time data.
We will examine examples of AI-generated worlds and review state-of-the-art tools for AI worldbuilding, while discussing both critical and creative approaches to using generative AI in storytelling practices.
You will then dive into:
Prompt engineering for LLMs, using AI to shape narrative flows
Real-time image generation, creating visuals that evolve with your story
Building a dynamic storytelling engine that integrates data-responsive environments
The second half of the workshop focuses on practical implementation. Participants will learn how to:
Write basic Python scripts to interface with APIs
Set up and manipulate real-time image models
Integrate image and data streams into TouchDesigner
By the end of the session, you’ll walk away with a functioning prototype of your own generative narrative environment—a storytelling engine that blends imagery, text, and live inputs.
Who This Workshop Is For
This workshop is geared toward intermediate-level participants. While not required, prior experience with TouchDesigner and Python scripting will be highly beneficial. If you're comfortable navigating creative coding environments and are eager to explore AI tools beyond plug-and-play interfaces, this is for you..
Meet Your Host
Yvonne Fang is an artist and creative technologist currently based in San Francisco. She makes simulations, virtual worlds, games, and interactive extended reality experiences that explore latent space aesthetics and AI simulation as a way to bridge human and nonhuman perspectives, unsettling human-centered ways of thinking in a time of climate crisis. She develops and teaches multimodal AI/ML-infused storytelling pipelines and co-creative tools to explore new possibilities of human-AI creative collaboration. She holds a Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BA from Bowdoin College where she studied international relations, computer science, and visual art. Her work has been shown and featured at institutions including Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and Asian Art Museum. She has given guest lectures at Stanford d.school, Stanford Department of Art & Art History, and California College of the Arts, and has spoken at events such as the San Francisco Art Fair and Gray Area Festival.
About Futurespaces
Futurespaces delves into contemporary experience design, with a specific focus on how innovations in design and technology can meaningfully enhance human connection.
Founded and led by Josh Goldblum (Bluecadet) Futurespaces offers live webinars and in-person tours that provide valuable insights into the creative process of creating contemporary experiences.