Torin Blankensmith is a freelance creative technologist, real-time graphics artist, and educator specializing in mixed-reality installations, interactive experiences, and open-source creative tools.
Torin creates and exhibits interactive artworks, while sharing his creative process and tools through educational videos on YouTube and Patreon. He’s the co-creator of Shader Park, a JavaScript library for interactive procedural shaders, and the MediaPipe plugin for TouchDesigner, enabling real-time motion tracking for thousands of artists. He also co-founded DATLAB (Digital Art and Technology Lab), hosting monthly NYC meetups that brings together hundreds of artists, designers, and technologists for workshops, talks, AV performances, and critical dialogue around interactive media.
Torin is an annualized adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design, teaching Advanced Creative Coding, TouchDesigner, and Adaptive Technology in both MFA and BFA programs since 2020.
Previously, at Studio Elsewhere, he helped lead the development of immersive environments to support neuroscience research, wellbeing, and mental health—including filming and building the “Recharge Rooms,” which have since expanded to 60+ permanent installations across hospitals in the U.S. He also developed a custom capture system for a neuroscience lab, designed game-based environments, and created immersive spaces for a children’s hospital.
His work has been shown at SIGGRAPH Asia, Art Basel’s Beyond Basel, VIDEOCITTÀ, TouchDesigner Berlin, and he has participated in NEW INC Year 6, Google Creative Lab 5 Program, and the ITP/IMA Project Fellowship. His previous clients include The Nobel Foundation, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Google Creative Lab, ARTECHOUSE, Lab at Rockwell, Vice, Adobe, and Microsoft.
Talks:
SIGGRAPH ASIA, 2023: Shader Park
TouchDesigner InSession,
CodAME,
Music HackSpace,
TouchDesigner Meetup (shaders),
LiveCodeNYC (performance),
Berkley NYC - LiveExperience Design,
Parsons MFA Shaders Course,
Parsons BFA WebXR Course,
Algorithmic Art Assembly.
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