Hype Cycle: Smart Matter by Universal Everything
Leading UK "phygital" art and research studio Universal Everything continues its journey in Machine Learning exploring human-machine collaboration through performance and emerging technologies. The ongoing project Hype Cycle (previously)
These human-machine interactions from Universal Everything are inspired by the Hype Cycle trend graphs produced by Gartner Research, a valiant attempt to predict future expectations and disillusionments as new technologies come to market.
Creative Director: Matt Pyke
Animation: Joe Street
Sound Designer: Simon Pyke (Freefarm)
Senior Producer: Greg Povey
Motion Capture: Nick Dulake, Ursula Ankeny (Sheffield Hallam University)
Dancer: Tamar Draper
Choreographer: TC Howard
A Report of Connected Events
A Report Of Connected Events is a branded content film directed by Mischa Rozema and produced by PostPanic. Celebrating the power of storytelling, it was commissioned by Nuna9 on behalf of their client, Liberty Global. Filmed in Paris, the piece explores iconic moments in film and television history, blurring the lines between our reality and some of our favourite stories.
Metamorphosis by Leviathan
“Our pursuit of the intersectionality between art and technology has delivered another mesmerizing original art piece for the Dolby Gallery, San Francisco”
Leviathan’s Metamorphosis is an audiovisual odyssey that extracts brilliant color data from masterpieces of the past century to create an entirely new experience of art. Employing newly developed coding techniques, Leviathan dissects a curated selection of paintings into abstract digital forms. The generative visuals, which are set rhythmically to a composed ambient soundscape, evolve through time and space — transforming the unique LED canvas at Dolby Gallery into an immersive, meditative experience.
This synergy between sight and sound is custom-designed for Dolby Gallery. Rich color volume data, inspired by Dolby Vision technology, is brought to life along with a sonic experience mixed in Dolby Atmos. Moving audio dynamically travels across 52 full-range speakers and 34 subwoofers to immerse visitors in a fusion of art and science.
This work is part of a series of Dolby exhibitions that explore the leading edge of audio and imaging technologies in partnership with contemporary artists
Olga Midlenko Demo Reel 2018
Los Angeles based Designer and Creative Director Olga Midlenko shares a selection of work that she created over the past 5 years. Olga directed title sequences for such feature films and TV series as Pacific Rim: Uprising, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Limitless, and Good Behavior, acted as an art director on title sequences for Kong: Skull Island, Fahrenheit 451, and Suburbicon, and contributed as a designer to the title sequences for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Black Mass, Salem and many more.
She directed a branded content film for the Audi Q2 that was released at the Geneva Motor Show back in 2016 and led a broadcast graphics package for The Oscars 2017. Her online portfolio and demo reel are a combination of final products as well as process motion tests and design frames, exhibiting the level of thought and work that went into each project.
OFFF Barcelona 2018 Main Titles by GIANTSTEP
Gemini - The long awaited Main Titles for OFFF Barcelona's 18th edition by GIANTSTEP.
"This sequence is about McLuhan's famous quote "The medium is the message" infused with Greek mythology, Gemini. We adopted the story of Gemini and paralleled their story with the history of media; their secret birth, sisterhood, and death/resurrection along with letterpress printing, broadcast transmutation, and computer/AI world.
Carefully composed shots allow the viewer to experience our poetic imagination of the story that we have arranged. We made sure the visual rhythm was achieved in the manner of visual poetry by repetition of imagery."
Dive into this mesmerising sequence that explores a narrative masterpiece presenting each artist who joined OFFF Barcelona 2018.
Main Title Sequence by
GIANTSTEP
Directed by
Jake Ferguson, Heebok Lee
Produced by
Barrett Brown
Edited by
Zach Kilroy
Talent
Christiane Shillito (aka Ulorin Vex)
Music and Sound Design by
Box of Toys Audio
Houdini Technical Director
Serjan Burlak
Art Direction
Sasha Vinogradova
Carlo Sa
Chadwick Halbritter
Felix Soletic
Kaya Thomas
Seth Garnes
Eric Keller
The Artists’ Room - OFFF Barcelona 2018 Film by Mathery
The largest creative festival in Europe - OFFF Barcelona 2018 just started today and already shared booming news! Welcome "The Artists’ Room" by Mathery
Inspired by the four letters that makes the OFFF festival's name, “The Artists’ Room” tells the story of Oliver, Frida, Federica and Fiona who as they talk, never pronounce their initials.
Beautiful Office Life by Superfiction
It's Monday and time to enjoy your Beautiful Office same ways as fictional character Paul does. He is a creature of SUPERFICTION Studio based in Seoul, that focuses on 'fiction' in the word 'Science Fiction'. They lead a story using the term that means the 'great story' and the ‘real lie’ at the same time.
QLED TV Ad by Six N. Five
Barcelona-based Six N.Five studio developed short films that follow the concept of space transformation in response to the design of Samsung QLED TV
Creative Agency: R/GA, Six N. Five, Sebastián Baptista
Art direction: Six N. Five
Animation: Sebastián Baptista
3D Design: Six N. Five
Sound Design: Aimar Molero
Agent: Eiger Agency
Amorfo
Nowness presents director Andres Arochi
Iconic Mexican architect Luis Barragan’s Casa Gilardi — an iconic modernist house in Mexico City — hosts a body-bending dance troupe who twist and move through the geometric building’s colorful spaces and rooms. Director Andres Arochi explains his interest in experimenting with the physicality of Barragan’s architecture: “I wanted to play around with and explore the architect’s design. He knew exactly when and where people stand, and how the combination of light and space makes them feel.” Continuing, he notes that: “When we began shooting, magic started to happen. Light burst in through the window, and the dancer’s bodies started to flow in a way I had not anticipated.”
Hype Cycle: Machine Learning by Universal Everything
Hype Cycle is a series of futurist films exploring human-machine collaboration through performance and emerging technologies.
Machine Learning is the second set of films in the Hype Cycle series. It builds on the studio’s past experiments with motion studies, and asks: when will machines achieve human agility?
Set in a spacious, well-worn dance studio, a dancer teaches a series of robots how to move. As the robots’ abilities develop from shaky mimicry to composed mastery, a physical dialogue emerges between man and machine – mimicking, balancing, challenging, competing, outmanoeuvring.
Can the robot keep up with the dancer? At what point does the robot outperform the dancer? Would a robot ever perform just for pleasure? Does giving a machine a name give it a soul?
These human-machine interactions from Universal Everything are inspired by the Hype Cycle trend graphs produced by Gartner Research, a valiant attempt to predict future expectations and disillusionments as new technologies come to market.
Creative Director: Matt Pyke
Animation: Joe Street
Sound Designer: Simon Pyke (Freefarm)
Senior Producer: Greg Povey
Motion Capture: Audio Motion
Dancer /Choreographer: Dwayne-Antony Simms
A Sequence of Statements by Playful
A very short film about the eternal & infinite feeling of being looped directed by Playful
Produced by: Playful
Written, Directed & Editorial by: Pablo Alfieri
3d Design by: Seba Morales
Animated by: Facu Labo
Sound Design by: Delirium deliriumdelirium.tv
Lucid
Tarek Mawad and Friedrich van Schoor, also known as collective 3hund are two german artists, sharing the same passion for nature, adventure and dark melancholic images. They teamed up with electronic composer Achim “Künstler” Treu, a.k.a. UFO Hawai, to create "LUCID". A surreal world based on simple geometric light shapes that seem misplaced, but somehow blend with its surrounding at the same time.
"The idea was to create a surreal world based on simple geometric light shapes that seem misplaced, but somehow blend with its surrounding at the same time. Shapes that emphasize the mood of its surrounding in the most simple way. By installing electroluminescent light shapes and wires in untouched landscapes, a single lightsource tells a surreal story of magic and loneliness in a surreal and intense way. Every environment has its own light installation.
The intention was to summarize all installations in a cinematographic way to create a touching short film"
Vova Tomin Motion Reel
Pioneer of Russian motion design - Vladimir Tomin, best known as a co-founder of Nord Works (together with Alex Frukta) and Digital Decade resident, released his massive showreel summing up few years of 24/7 animation work.
STAIN - Generative Visual Performance Studio
Alexandra Gavrilova and Sergey Titov are Moscow artists, working together as Stain. They are focused on abstract forms and concepts to find concentration in today's poly-dimensional information flow, seeing creative process as a way to render one's idea of the world and oneself, to learn more about principles of nature and human perception. Stain works with generative methods to create graphics, audiovisual and light installations.
"Abstract objects on the projection are moving slowly according to the solid dynamics, an active environment is filled with bits of recursive reactions. This algorithmically conditioned but probabilistically unstable graphical canvas depicts a metaphor of causation and reflection on the events in the life of communities. All the scene is filming with low frame rate. The real situation in the space of the exhibition turns to a documentary, in another time, it immerses the observer in eternity and transience of the view from afar on the events happened a minute ago."
"The interrelations of the elements of sets, the patterns of their combinations, and the constancy of recurring circumstances constitute the stabilities of our existence."
"Everyone can influence the image with tilting a smartphone connected to the local network.
Sound by Lazyfish is also realtime synthesized and forms a whole with the graphics.
Audience's interaction with the installation floats between game, creation or contemplation, depending on participnts' mood and actions. Visually complex image is a metaphor of virtual structures, which one can affect intuitively easy. Participant's mind is immersed in the process of influence and perception of emotional feedback. Graphic style hints at futurist aesthetics and has a certain irony along with intention to rethink our attitudes to technology."
Designcollector's personal experience with STAIN' installation at MARSSPB, 2016
Golden Age by Murat Sayginer
Directed by Murat Saygıner
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Music & Sound Design by Zenthing / Jochen Mader
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Chromatic by Shane Griffin
San Francisco based artist Shane Griffin released experimental art-film exploring the beauty in diffraction grating by passing light through in defective glass. The film was a part of contribution for TED 2018 conference as well as long-term project "Chromatic". We were lucky to exhibit one piece from it at our annual digital art exhibition "Digital Decade 5"
Digital Decade 5: Cyberia, 2017
Shane Griffin was invited to participate in our annual digital art collaboration and exhibition in London. He was selected by curator to represent "Cyberia: The Unknown Territories Shaped by the Digital Enthos" theme alongside other 35 artists. Most of aluminum prints from exhibition are available for pick up at affordable price in London.
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Hennessy V.S. Major
Created by Kyiv-based Radioaktive Film on location at Lviv vélodrome "Hennessy V.S. Major" is a story at the turn of the 19th century, cycling was the world’s biggest sport, and Marshall ‘Major’ Taylor was its biggest superstar. He broke multiple world records, won championships and defeated competition all over the world. But he was still searching for something else: a true rival.
Behind the scenes
Hennessy V.S 'Major' with RadicalMedia LLC, Droga5, The Mill
Director: Derek Cianfrance,
Director Of Photography: Roman Vasyanov.
J&J 2018 by Alex Frukta
It's been a while since our friend and partner Alex Frukta (part of Nord Collective) shared new motion works with us. Here is the latest commission he did for Johnson&Johnson. Every year, brand hosts an conference, which brings together employees from all divisions from Russia and CIS countries. It sums up the year and celebrates its end.
Agency: Illuminarium 3000
Producer: Yura Pelin
Design/Motion: Alex Frukta
Audio/Soundesign: Finalsketch, Vasily Filatov
FITC Toronto 2018 Titles dir. Joshua Davis & Saad Moosajee
The title sequence for FITC Toronto 2018 is built on the theme of Transform. It aims to morph the spatial perception of its viewers as it takes them through a constantly shifting, never-ending journey into a series of patterns, landscapes, and environments that exist between two and three dimensional space. In each world, 2D and 3D programmatic processes are combined to create rich, organic animations and sprawling graphic forms.
Directed by: Joshua Davis & Saad Moosajee
Animated by: Saad Moosajee
Technical Director: James Bartolozzi
Programming: Joshua Davis, James Bartolozzi
Supporting Animation: Enle Li
Sound: Kurt Uenala / Null + Void / Song : Into the Void / Album : hfnmusic.lnk.to/Cryosleep