Pause 2017 Opening Titles
This year's theme of Melbourne-based Pause festival is "Different Perspective" starting in February. For massive opening titles (for somehow revealed before the start) they invited Chinese CG artist Zaoeyo
“The whole idea was inspired by an anime called “Digimon Adventure”, whose opening scenes show the different angle of a night city and digital creatures.Therefore, we decide to focus on a different angle or perspective of empty cities, to express a feeling of isolation, despite the fact we live in these spaces. The idea of using a cat for guidance is borrowed from an indie game called “HK”, which will enhance the feeling of isolation between human and their environment. Also this is all CGi made in Cinema 4D with Octane Render.”
Making of
Nike SNKRS Box Experience
To celebrate the U.S. Basketball team going for the Gold in Rio 2016, Hybrid Design partnered with Nike Brand Design and Golden Wolf to create one-of-kind boutique retail experience, re-launching an equally unique shoe: The Nike Air Foamposite One. This larger-than-life, digital sneaker box projected 4 sides of Air Foamposite One-inspired animation, visible from as far as the Bay Bridge in San Francisco
Abstract - The Art Of Design
Netflix will premier a new original documentary series, Abstract: The Art of Design, that introduces the work and creative process of eight leading designers (and yes it will air on Netflix Russia too, starting on 10th of February). The series is produced by Wired’s editor-in-chief Scott Dadich, Morgan Neville and Dave O’Connor. Each programme will focus on a different individual, the subjects are: Bjarke Ingels (architect), Christoph Niemann (illustrator), Es Devlin (stage designer), Ilse Crawford (interior designer), Paula Scher (graphic designer), Platon (photographer), Ralph Gilles (automobile designer) and Tinker Hatfield (Nike shoe designer).
“I can guess what you’re thinking, because I have watched a lot of design documentaries. Restrained, polished, pretty—so many of them look like a moving version of a coffee table book. You’ve got softly lit interviews, esoteric conversations, and subtle tracking shots of wide landscapes beneath unobtrusive music. Most of it is clean, minimal, and boring as hell. We’re not doing that. My partners and fellow executive producers—Morgan Neville (who won an Oscar for 20 Feet From Stardom) and RadicalMedia’s Dave O’Connor—and I built a team of today’s best-known documentarians. Every episode stands as its own film, adapting the design sensibilities of our subjects.”
P.s If you are totally in it than you have all chances to meet design gurus in life on festivals like OFFF Barcelona, FITC, Toca Me... Hurry up, tic-toc
Light Masonry by Jason Bruges
Leading light installation artist Jason Bruges was approached by Arts Council England, to make a piece for Illuminating York event went in 2016. The Festival encourages visitors to explore and discover the city through the imagination of artists, using the medium of light in all its forms.
Light Masonry is an epic, site specific, light installation based in the main nave of York Minster. The artwork is founded on the construct of creating a secondary layer of dynamic, temporal and ephemeral architecture sculptured from light. Inspired by the continuous crafting and iterating of the layers of work by the Minster’s stonemasons, the studio has investigated the relationship between the vaults, light and the audience. Drawing upon the ceremonial nature of the space, the studio has created a synchronized procession of light that highlights and explores the nave as a choreographed architectural experience. The art installation inscribes the perimeter of the main nave and is constructed from a bespoke system of 48 computer controlled Icon Beam moving head luminaires, animating a dynamic light architecture around the atmospheric volumes of the nave. The piece is immersive and complimented by the soundscape of Intervallo by Arvo Pärt, performed by John Bradbury and Benjamin Morris the Minsters organists.
Chrysopoeia by Susi Sie
In alchemy, the term chrysopoeia (Greek) means transmutation into gold. The score was composed and played by Nikolai von Sallwitz, using real instruments and tools such as
cello, bowed strings, prepared piano, guitar, flutes, filtered springs, woods and hardware FX such as analog distortion. Chrysopoeia is part of Sonic Materia project series initiated by Nikolai von Sallwitz that is interpreted by various visual artists, graphic- and motion designers. It is about more space for pure visions and experiments likewise interaction and networking with future brains of design.
Directed & Produced: Susi Sie I Music & Sound Design: Nikolai von Sallwitz
Morphogenesis
An otherworldly odyssey that blew people's mind all around the world in media art festivals and art galleries. Morphogenesis is a VR experience inspired by the phenomenon of emergence in self-organized systems. Created by two independent artists Can Buyukberber, Yagmur Uyanik and Fulbright Scholars based in San Francisco, it is an audiovisual journey through different planes of the digital and physical universe.
360 VR Preview
Splendor of Existence
"Splendor of Existence" is a video art that aims to engender wonder and inspiration by drifting you through a vast dreamlike sea of tranquility. Created and directed by Apostolos Stefanopoulos
Light Cave by teamLab
"Music Festival, teamLab Jungle is an experiential music festival in which a vivid 4D space is created by millions of dazzling moving light lines crossing each other. In the space filled with countless moving light lines that interactively change by sound, everyone can dance and intuitively make music."
Manifold, Corridor and Brainfeeder by Max Zhestkov
Russian motion artist Maxim Zhestkov just completed his new series of 360/VR environments ready to complete his upcoming short movie. Meanwhile experience the cold void of his digital art in VR below
Ruslan Khasanov - La La La
Leading Russian chemical motion designer Ruslan Khasanov shares his latest experiments called La La La
Collide
Since this installation felt out of our radars last year and was not included to the Top 2016 Experiences we it should be, we apologise and share it now
"Synaesthesia and abandonment form the basis of a new digital art installation called Collide, created by design studio onformative. To convey these sensations, the studio took recorded motion data and transformed it into surreal animations and audio. For the visuals, they searched through archival motion data from various dance genres and turned the movements into colors and forms, abstracting them from their usual spatial constraints." via TCP
Crossvision by Henning Marxen
Created by Henning Marxen, "Crossvision" is an ongoing photography and video art project that used a DIY slitscan camera. He build an effect similar to what we have seen in Hiroshi Kondo's "The Others" landed in our Top 2016 recently
Central Station, Recording time 54 seconds
Roadside Plant, Recording time 47 seconds
Flower Market, Recording time 58 seconds
University Entrance, Recording time 169 seconds
Photo by @themearns
London Fireworks 2017
By tradition we share the video of London Fireworks on the first day of the New Year. This time BBC went way over possibilities and released immersive 360 degrees VR video, that went live during the show on the Embankment.
Outlines by TUNDRA
Produced by Russian arts collective TUNDRA, this gigantic grid of hundreds of red lasers was supposed to be featured in Moscow's OUTLINE FESTIVAL. However, after the festival was abruptly canceled due to undisclosed circumstances, the massive installation shown at Day for Night in Houston in a recent days.
from Alexander Sinitsa Instagram
“It’s about everyone’s individual perception of reality, their life background, circumstances, and social status, all this stuff creates fictional boundaries that aren’t there actually; laser beams create a grid that is visible, but you can cross it if you want.”
ICARUS by Vadim Sherbakov
““Icarus” is my non-narrative short drone film and really a homage to an awesome piece of technology, Phantom 3 Pro, that travels with me for the past 2 years to many many locations. From rocky cliffs of Isle of Skye to the mighty Dolomites in Italy. From unearthly Icelandic landscapes to lake belfry in Russia. Never in a million years have I though it would be possible to capture worlds beauty from this new and exiting prospects. New technology gives us this creative freedom and I am going to explore it furthermore.”
Art of Science by Sila Sveta
Sila Sveta produced one of the largest video projection made on the façade of the unique architectural landmark - the main tower of Moscow State University at the Vorobyovy Hills. The projected area covered over 50 000 square meters and was over 0.5 km long, 212 projectors were used for the show.
Macrocosm by Susi Sie
Macrocosm is a new video released by Susi Sie created by visualising sound from space recorded by NASA
More brilliance. More beauty by Sony
Sony filled an abandoned casino in Romaina with 4,000 balloons and 1.5 tons of glitter for one intense TV advert. Shot in 4k, the ad made by American director Andre Stringer, together with DDB Berlin
Nike Free Experience
Nike approached Amsterdam-based studio Random to create their new outdoor experience using cutting edge technologies
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For the launch of the next generation Nike Free outsole, we developed an interactive installation to capture the Auxetic Sole Technology : a structure that spontaneously expands and contracts upon impact. We created a range of hands-on digital and physical tools to enable the Nike teams to interact in a tactile way with the technology.”
