Small Talk for Adult Swim
Friday’s small talk directed by Chris Rutledge (@tokymegz) & Tom Goulet (@tomgoulery) created for Adult Swim
Entropy dir. Matan Portnoy
Entropy - the degree of disorder of particles during a chemical reaction.
Passionate and painful relationship in the chaotic retrospect of a faded memory.
This is the entropy of a relationship.
When everything is over, are we left alone with the memories of our loved ones or is it that those same memories are what keep us from being alone?
Written & Directed by Matan Portnoy
Director Of Photography - Tom Riechart
Producer - Noa Cymerman
Behind the scenes
Teen Knight Poem
Celine's mens show for FW 2021 arrived in the form of a medieval-themed film - Teen Knight Poem.
A presentation filled with stunning theatrics, in a way that only creative director Hedi Slimane can pull off, Teen Knight Poem is Celine at its most mysterious and exciting.
Celine has drawn its creative sword once again to ride into a decadent Arthurian future. The Teen Knight Poem collection shares Hedi Slimane's fascination with the unshackled of a new generation of fashion. We saw these same inspirations and ideals in his beloved and rather sport Celine womenswear SS 2021 show in Monaco last year.
Dingyun Zhang x Antoni Tudisco: "NOT IN PARIS"
@dingyun_zhang & @antonitudisco
Curated by Highsnobiety and presented during the time period formerly known as Paris Men’s Fashion Week, “Not In Paris 2” is a second in a series of bi-annual digital exhibitions celebrating creativity in the age of remote interactions.
“Dingyun Zhang, the 25-year old Chinese Central Saint Martins graduate and YEEZY designer hadn’t even sold a single product. He still hasn’t. Yet the demand for his namesake brand’s signature oversized puffers, trousers, and sleeveless vests has continued to skyrocket. Everyone from A$AP Nast, Jerry Lorenzo, and Tremaine Emory to Mowalola, Hidden.ny, and sneaker legend Steven Smith now follow him on IG, Rihanna, CL, and Kaia Gerber have worn his design samples, and (in secret) some of the biggest retailers have started placing orders.”
In October, the designer partnered with Italian-Filipino art director and 3D artist Antoni Tudisco on a set of 3D rendered film stills and short animations that featured exaggerated versions of Zhang’s MA puffers and YEEZY sneakers, set in utopian landscapes. It was a case study to show how the brand could build buzz outside of traditional big budget runway shows and big scale advertising campaigns. It worked, with the first set of images getting up to three times as much as engagement as usual.
Tudisco grew up in Hamburg, Germany — and started getting approached by commercial clients after he published sketches and rough renderings on Facebook a couple of years ago — and says he’s recently recognised a rise in big brands like Balenciaga started incorporating animations in their work. Zhang, in his mind, made the perfect potential collaborator.
For Highsnobiety’s Not in Paris II exhibition, the duo pushes their collaboration a step further by introducing their longest video to date:
Heterochromia iridum by Rus Khasanov
An entrancing short film by designer and artist Rus Khasanov (previously) fuses multiple optical tricks into a single work.
“The hypnotic footage utilizes pareidolia—the inclination to see an object where it physically doesn’t exist—while referencing heterochromia iridum, a fairly common condition in which a person’s irises are multi-colored, sometimes in the forms of spikes radiating around the pupil or swirls that split the tissue with different hues. Khasanov’s rendition mimics that phenomenon through saturated droplets and innumerable veins that plume outward.” via Colossal
Loop by Stuart Langfield
An immersive sci-fi short by writer-director Stuart Langfield. “Loop” centres around a reclusive former tech CEO’s quest to teach AI how to experience and process true human emotions. However these ’emotion experiments’ involve a series of scripted scenarios that seem to do more to call basic humanity into question as the film blurs the lines between drama and sci-fi, human and machine, real and artificial.
“Loop is an artistic exploration of a simple hypothesis: emotion cannot be programmed, it must be felt and experienced to be real. I started exploring this concept while observing my young son discover and display new emotions through his own direct experience and contact with others. He was learning to process the feelings of anger, joy, disappointment, sadness, and I found this progression of maturity fascinating and insightful. I started to question whether replicating an emotive incident could result in a similar reaction every time and, if so, could we program a machine to feel?”
Piano and the Fox
UK based passionate 3D artist, animator, and director with several years of commercial experience working under “Piano and the Fox”. Her style is mainly colourful bold compositions with playful animations.
Artificial Landscapes by Refik Anadol
Refik Anadol is a media artist and director born in Istanbul, Turkey and currently based in Los Angeles, California. He is working in the fields of site-specific public art with parametric data sculpture approach and live audio/visual performance with immersive installation approach, particularly his works explore the space among digital and physical entities by creating a hybrid relationship between architecture and media arts with machine intelligence.
“Artificial Landscapes” is his latest AI Data Sculpture series that his studio have generated for Samsung‘s next-gen MicroLED technology. It consists of 3 unique chapters, each offering a window to how visual memories of nature can be simulated through ML algorithms and by using data as pigment.
MCR_XPRMNT+SND by Azamat Akhmadbaev
Digital Decade resident, artist Azamat Akhmadbaev dropped a personal release on Sedition Art Platform, London.
MCR_XPRMNT+SND
This series of video artworks is a metaphysical trip to another reality between our vision and perception. In accordance with the postulates of postmodernism and legacy of Derrida, the artist plays with the language of color, providing the opportunity to rethink our links with the current world through kitsch and low fidelity. Macro video recording and experimental sounds in videos are 'entry points' to the new stage of postmodernism where a viewer can melt a metaphysical body and disappear to leave marks in the internal world.
The collection name is derived from the words "macro", "experiment" and "sound".
WARNING: These videos have been identified to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.
Azamat Akhmadbaev (b.1991, Karachayevsk) is a visual artist who lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He works across many disciplines including painting, photography, video and digital art. His artworks operates in the gap between glitch art, abstraction, minimalism and graphic art. Also he is a founder/editor-in-chief of dontpostme magazine - a magazine about contemporary art. Private collections in Russia, Spain, the USA, the UK and Poland.
DONTPOSTME (@dontpostme_magazine)
Since 2012, Azamat Akhmadbaev and Zulya Kumukova have published an online magazine, DONTPOSTME featuring interviews by outstanding contemporary artists. The latest interviews are featured on Instagram; interviewed artists include Anne Vieux, Michael Staniak, Matt Mignanelli, Gergo Szinyova, Lee Bul and Jenny Brosinski.
Related Collection on Sedition
Digital Decade Special Edition 2020 by Designcollector Network
The Digital Decade SE 2020 collection is a selection of digital artworks curated by Designcollector Network. The collection and connected events, released in 2020, are the latest iteration of Digital Decade which has previously been presented as a series of Phygital Art events in London, Barcelona and Saint Petersburg, featuring more than 150 artists in total. Starting from 2013 artists have been invited to respond to the geopolitical, environmental, social changes taking place today in the digital age
Santi Zoraidez – New Normality Reel
Santi Zoraidez shared a collection of his best 3D work done in 2020
“It has been a difficult year for all of us. A year full of complications, fears, anxiety and frustration. I feel like a landmark year, an opportunity to start over, grow and be better. Personally, I have to say that even with everything that was happening around me I have been able to do great things and I am grateful for that. Things that seemed difficult to achieve at the beginning of the year. That’s why I wanted to make this edit with a selection of the best work I have been doing during the last years. As a full stop and move to the next step from here. I’ve lost 20kg and am running almost every day on the beach in Barcelona, the city I’ve dreamed of living in for a long time. It feels great how ideas come to mind again as I do it. ”
Digital art of Stuart Campbell
Sutu (aka Stuart Campbell) uses art and technology in new ways to tell stories. He has been commissioned by the likes of Marvel, Google and Disney to create VR art for properties such as Doctor Strange and Ready Player One. He has also created three VR documentaries; Inside Manus for SBS, Mind at War for Ryot Films and The Battle of Hamel for the Australian War Memorial. He is also known for his interactive comics including Nawlz, Neomad, Modern Polaxis and These Memories Won’t Last. He holds a Honorary Doctorate of Digital Media from Central Queensland University, is a 2017 Sundance Fellow and is the co-founder of EyeJack an Augmented Reality company.
Recently Sutu took a part in collaboration with electronic musician Deadmau5 to create a special piece for SuperRare cryptocurrency art auction
Lockdown
“During the pandemic we were all experimenting those weird emotion. We wanted to be productive and at the same time our fear and emotion from the virus were exhausting us this is a representation of a conflict with out emotion. And we should accept how we feel and take some time for us.” - says animation director Kimathi Flavien
Virtual Exhibitions on Nifty Gateways
Gavin Shapiro at Nifty Gateway
“Gavin Shapiro’s ultimate goal is to produce work that makes you smile, and these days he aims to do that by making vibrant, surrealist 3D animation that doesn’t take itself too seriously but still retains a high level of quality. He's lived and worked in New York, Osaka and Paris, working on a large variety of projects including tv shows, commercials, outdoor displays, large-format stage visuals, and animations for casino games.”
His personal work, released under the name “shapiro500”, has been used as visuals at music festivals and shows all over the world, and has been shown on digital billboards as part of art exhibitions in New York City and Tokyo. His animations have accumulated hundreds of millions of views across Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Giphy.
His works are available today on the Nifty Gateway - the exclusive digital art platform featuring digital artists from all over the world that enabling collection of “non-fungible tokens” - a special type of cryptographic token which represents something unique, like Gavin’s artworks
Luna Ikuta - Afterlife
Multi-media artist based in Los Angeles Luna Ikuta shares their love to frozen moments of a nature beauty through creating motion artworks featuring a short life of plants
David Koma Resort 2021 Digital Campaign by Sila Sveta
Renowned interactive media production company Sila Sveta was commissioned by fashion designer David Koma to create a totally digital catwalk in a futuristic environment
Concept and Artistic Direction: David Koma
Creative Direction: Polina Zakh
Creative Direction, Art Direction and CG: Komron Komron, Evgeny Mezhibovskiy
Cloth Simulation: Danya Qebab
Character Animation and Modelling: Efim Strand
Sound: Rob Taliesin Owen
Styling: Marc Goehring
Talent: Tamar M.
Powered by: Sila Sveta
Jimmy Choo Diamond by Maxim Zhestkov's Studio "Media Work"
Another great example of how digital art can be applied to commercial industry is a video for Diamond Sneakers created by @Media.Work studio led by ultra-talented Maxim @Zhestkov
Even the work has been done in 2019 it is worth seeing and inspiring
Blindsight
4 years of dedicated team-work during free time was not what Brooklyn-based VFX artist Danil Krivoruchko expected to spend to get the enormous results. Danil proves that everything can be done if it is started and planned. Here come the long waited release of an indie short sci-fi film Blindsight based on the eponymous sci-fi novel by Peter Watts.
The movie release is accompanied by the epic website created by Anton Repponen
Studio Studies
ГЦСИ Санкт-Петербург
Studio Studies
Studio Studies is a series of video interviews with St. Petersburg artists and a logical continuation of the work with the artists' studios, which was launched as part of the 1st Curatorial Forum. Then, in the fall of 2019, the artists of St. Petersburg opened the doors of their studios to the public. The program called Open Studios raised important questions about the ethics of visiting and hospitality, the attitude of the artist and the public, and the very essence of these private spaces.
In 2020, we continued to work with the studios, now in an exploratory way, to clarify for ourselves, the audience, and the artists the designated "blind spots". We revised the format of open studios in favor of videos about the artist's life in the studio. This decision was also forced by the epidemiological situation, in which we think it is right to avoid mass visits to the studios.
Calling the series Studio Studies, we appeal to an already existing field of knowledge, relatively developed in European and American art criticism. Studio Studies is an area of knowledge that explores the artist's studio as an ecosystem of aesthetic and material production, and as a place that defines the entire future cultural process. We asked questions about the artist's daily life, looked at internal processes and relations with the outside world, i.e. we were engaged in topology and ethics of these special spaces.
Based on a research perspective, we invited artists representing different types of contemporary art: painters, graphic artists, sculptors, photographers, media artists, activists, etc. in order to see, perhaps, the specific routine of each direction.
Curator: Anna Zavediy
Russian release
Studio Studies
Государственный Центр Современного Искусства в Санкт-Петербурге (Северо-Западный филиал ГМИИ им. А.С. Пушкина) @ncca_northwest при поддержке «Фонда поддержки инноваций и молодежных инициатив» представляют первую часть спецпроекта Studio Studies – девять видео-интервью с петербургскими художниками в их мастерских.
Ася Маракулина в мастерской
Studio Studies – логическое продолжение работы с мастерскими художников, начатой осенью 2019 года. В рамках 1-го Кураторского форума была запущена программа Open Studios: во время Art Weekend художники Петербурга открыли двери своих мастерских для широкой аудитории. Программа, сфокусированная на этике посещения и гостеприимства, отношениях художника и публики, а также на самой сути этих приватных пространств, оказалась успешной.
В 2020 году работа с мастерскими продолжается, теперь уже в исследовательском ключе. Формат открытых мастерских был пересмотрен в пользу фильмов о жизни художника в мастерской (или о жизни мастерской).
Мастерская художника – это пространство со своей экосистемой, как правило закрытое для широкой публики. В серии видеоинтервью исследуется повседневная жизнь художника в мастерской и таким образом десакрализуется художественный труд.
Ильдар Якубов в своей мастерской
STUDIO STUDIES
Серия исследовательских видеоинтервью с петербургскими художниками.
http://curatorialforum.art/2020studiostudies
Куратор: Анна Заведий (@anna_zavediy)
Участники: Анна Андржиевская, Ася Маракулина, коммунальная галерея «Егорка», Анна Прилуцкая, Никита Селезнёв, студия перформативных искусств «СДВИГ», Илья Смирнов, Наталья Тихонова, Ильдар Якубов.
Avant-garde home technology
“LOEWE is well-known for its strive for perfection. The aspiration for the best possible visual and sound quality made the brand stand out. The combination of cutting edge technology and intelligent algorithms allow Loewe TV Models to impress a viewer not only with a beautiful picture but also with profound and elegant design concepts. PLAYD under direction of Paul Shtyler were thrilled by the opportunity to work on the latest collection by LOEWE. They joined forces with LOEWE creative team to produce a campaign devoted to the conscientious innovation and consistent care of clean materials – the key elements of responsible design. “
Tubular Dreams
Digital artist Esteban Diácono was commissioned by Cinelli - leading bicycle company, to create a campaign for Traguardo Volante, the third Columbus Continuum exhibition exploring the connection between art, design and bicycles and to celebrate 100 years of Columbus Bicycle Technologies.