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Creative Technology

Creative Technology is the bridge between the Arts, AI, and Education areas. It collects experiments where software changes the form of an artwork or becomes part of the creative act itself: drawings become 3D assets, browsers become instruments, generated images become starting points, and digital models move into virtual or physical environments.

Experimental workCreative codingGenerative tools3DBrowser audio

Workflows

Creative ideas can move between media.

Drawing → 3D

Use a drawing as the source for an AI-assisted 3D starting point, then evaluate and move the result into a game engine or fabrication workflow.

Keyboard → Instrument

Map computer-key events to playable piano and drum interactions so the browser becomes part of the instrument.

Prompt → Editable asset

Generated lyrics, images, or music are treated as material that can be reviewed and changed rather than as unquestionable final output.

2D → Virtual world

Visual ideas can become textures, sprites, interfaces, game assets, or references for environments in Roblox, Unreal, Minecraft, or browser projects.

Digital → Physical

3D design and printing introduce real constraints—scale, geometry, fabrication, iteration—that a purely digital artifact never has to face.

Project → Multimedia artifact

A game can gain its own song, artwork, story, album page, or visual identity, allowing one technical project to become a broader creative object.

Class workVisual systems

Pixel Art, Sprites & Game Visuals

Visual work has included pixel-art activities, sprite work including Pac-Man-related exercises, textures and UI elements for games, and repeated student demands for worlds and characters that look less fake and more intentional.

Pixel ArtSpritesGame ArtUI
Camp work3D fabrication

3D Design & Printing

Class and camp work has crossed from digital modeling into fabrication, making students deal with the difference between something that looks correct on a screen and something that must actually exist as an object.

3D ModelingPrintingIterationPhysical Making
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