The Séance is a realtime interactive experience using AI agents, generative audio and video, immersive storytelling, and embodied interaction. Combining the history of Spiritualist Séances with the aesthetics of Cyberpunk, the piece centers on a ritualistic encounter with John.iso, a fictional AI character embedded in a repurposed 1990s computer tower. Participants gather around a table and speak with John’s fragmented digital consciousness. As his presence strengthens, system instabilities escalate. Participants must earn John’s trust through meaningful interaction; success grants access to his evolving digital form, while failure triggers the permanent loss of the spirit.
Kyle Duffield acts as the Channeler, facilitating the connection, while Zhino Yousefi serves as the Medium, navigating a virtual reconstruction of John’s memory world.
TouchDesigner coordinates real-time voice recognition, generative audiovisuals, programmable lighting. Arduino controls tungsten lighting and interface elements for the participants.
Created by Kyle Duffield and Zhino Yousefi
Documentation:
Arudz Goudsouzian
Participants:
Rohin Eftekhari
Danielle Hyde
Megan Keenan
Special Thanks:
Mike Dunn
Arthur Khoy
Demo Room
York University Department of Computational Arts
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🎛️ Ready to bring your touch designer ideas to life?
Learn professional interactive design workflows and build real-world projects in our February 2026 course - STARTING 11th of FEBRUARY!
✨ Bring your Touch Designer ideas to life and build professional-grade interactive systems 🎨🔥
Join our February 2026 cohort — hands-on live classes, real-world projects, and expert feedback to level up your interactive design career.
“Part 4: Making your visuals react automatically 🎬✨
Kyle Duffield shows how to use Python in TouchDesigner to create an automatic video player — looping, pausing, and reloading based on presence detection.
Smart, interactive, and seamless — this is creative coding in action. 💡”
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“Part 2: Taking object tracking to the next level 🎯
Kyle Duffield shows how to fine-tune MediaPipe’s confidence and logic in TouchDesigner — making your visuals react intelligently to what’s in frame. 🚀
Learn how interactive systems see, decide, and perform in real time at Music Hackspace.”
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“I Have a Right” by Kyle Duffield explores presence, participation, and personal space through interactive design.
We’re honoured to have Kyle as a tutor in our TouchDesigner for Professional Interactive Design Careers course — where he shares the skills behind creating works like this.
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👋 Say “Hello” to interactive art!
Kyle Duffield’s installation Hello (by Electric Perfume) lit up Spin Toronto with playful interaction.
We’re proud to have Kyle as a tutor for our TouchDesigner for Professional Interactive Design Careers course!
#InteractiveArt #TouchDesigner #MusicHackspace
✨ We’re back! ✨
🚀 TouchDesigner for Professional Interactive Design Careers is returning!
Led by artist & designer Kyle Duffield, this course will take you deep into the world of interactive design & immersive systems.
🎛️ Learn to integrate hardware & data (APIs, MIDI, Arduino, Ableton, DMX + more)
🎥 Build real-world applications — from broadcast to retail to interactive installations
💼 Gain the skills to present your work & pitch to employers & clients
Take your creative tech career to the next level. Spots are limited — don’t miss it!
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👀 Taking blob tracking further in TouchDesigner!
This time we fine-tune blob size + sensitivity, and even extract data to detect whether something is really in the scene ✅.
A bit of filtering makes it stable and reliable — perfect for interactive setups.
🚀 Learn more in our TouchDesigner for Professional Interactive Design Careers course starting this October.
#TouchDesigner #CreativeCoding #InteractiveDesign #MusicHackspace #RealtimeGraphics #GenerativeArt
⚡ Kickstarting our new TouchDesigner project with blob tracking! Learn how to boost performance + lock your background with a simple Python shortcut.
🚀 Want to go pro? Our TouchDesigner for Professional Interactive Design Careers course starts this October.
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🎭 “Start with the experience.” — Kyle Duffield
At the heart of every great interactive piece is a feeling — not just a patch, a node, or a line of code.
This July, join a course that puts the audience experience first — while teaching you everything you need to build it in TouchDesigner.
🎓 TouchDesigner for Professional Interactive Design Careers
🗓 Starts 9th July
🔗 Link in bio to sign up
Perfect for artists, coders, designers, VJs, and anyone building experiences people remember.
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