a project by Quayola & Sinigaglia

{2013}
Audiovisual Installation - Custom Software for Realtime Graphics
4k video on 2 LCD displays | 2ch Sound
Dimensions Variable

Commissioned by Nike
Producer: Keri Elmsly
Animator: Paul Mumford
Sound: Michael Hodgson
Assistant: Sebastiano Barbieri

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Project: Ampersand
Client: The New Republic / New York
Directed & Produced: Korb & Susi Sie
DOP & Edit: Susi Sie
Compositing & 3D: Karolina Sereikatė
Producer: Lina Paškevičiūtė
Music & Sound Design: Andrea Damiano

Ampersand is a visual collective interpretation of creativity process - vitally growing and evolving crystals represent bursting ideas, the engine of all arts. To achieve growing crystals look visual artist Susi Sie used a supersaturated solution of sodium acetate, also known as “hot ice”.
This short film is a combination of live shot crystals and 3D.
Ampersand starts section of Books & Arts of 99 year old “The New Republic” magazine (NY, USA).
The first ampersand was created by Sagmeister & Walsh in January 2013.

Project by Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer

produced by:
onformative.com
chopchop.cc

Documentation:
vimeo.com/38505448

Music: Machinefabriek "Kreukeltape"
machinefabriek.nu/

Text: Sandra Moskova

The basic idea of the project is built upon the consideration of creating
a moving sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person. For
our work we asked a dancer to visualize a musical piece (Kreukeltape by
Machinenfabriek) as closely as possible by movements of her body. She was
recorded by three depth cameras (Kinect), in which the intersection of the
images was later put together to a three-dimensional volume (3d point cloud),
so we were able to use the collected data throughout the further process.
The three-dimensional image allowed us a completely free handling of the
digital camera, without limitations of the perspective. The camera also reacts
to the sound and supports the physical imitation of the musical piece by the
performer. She moves to a noise field, where a simple modification of the
random seed can consistently create new versions of the video, each offering
a different composition of the recorded performance. The multi-dimensionality
of the sound sculpture is already contained in every movement of the dancer,
as the camera footage allows any imaginable perspective.

The body – constant and indefinite at the same time – “bursts” the space
already with its mere physicality, creating a first distinction between the self
and its environment. Only the body movements create a reference to the
otherwise invisible space, much like the dots bounce on the ground to give it
a physical dimension. Thus, the sound-dance constellation in the video does
not only simulate a purely virtual space. The complex dynamics of the body
movements is also strongly self-referential. With the complex quasi-static,
inconsistent forms the body is “painting”, a new reality space emerges whose
simulated aesthetics goes far beyond numerical codes.

Similar to painting, a single point appears to be still very abstract, but the
more points are connected to each other, the more complex and concrete
the image seems. The more perfect and complex the “alternative worlds” we
project (Vilém Flusser) and the closer together their point elements, the more
tangible they become. A digital body, consisting of 22 000 points, thus seems
so real that it comes to life again.

nominated for the for the MuVi Award:
kurzfilmtage.de/en/competitions/muvi-award/selection.html

see video in full quallity:
daniel-franke.com/unnamed_soundsculpture.mov

HQ Stills
flickr.com/photos/37752604@N05/sets/72157629203600952/

AEON is an animated short film created to be a part of the 2013 TEDxSydney conference. It's purpose is to act as a 'palette cleanser' between talks.

AEON explores the concepts of growth, loosely reflected as a cyclical journey across the natural seasons over the course of many years. We draw loose parallels between these natural seasons and the seasons within an individuals life.

We purposely left the piece open to interpretation, but we would note that in developing AEON, we did explore the deeper concepts of life, existence and the identity of the individual within the broader cosmos. Where do we fit in when there is so much that is greater than the individual.

Our subjects are drawn from nature with moments particularly relevant to the Australian landscape from which many Australians forge their identity. We wanted the piece to be emotive and textured, opting for a stylised, low poly treatment complex in execution but nicely simplistic in its actual aesthetic. We wanted to explore geometry and the reduction of things to these core elements. The design and treatment a reflection of what is core to our existence.

Created by The DMCI

Directed by Nathan Drabsch & Brecon Littleford
Design and Animation - Brecon Littleford, Pat da Cunha, James Redmond, Nathan Drabsch

Music Composition and Audio Design - Mark Brandis & Jeff Black at ism studios

TEDx Executive Producer - Marque Owen

"THE MOST BASIC FORM OF MIND CONTROL IS REPETITION"
Videoclip for Histibe & Balkansky, Late Night 2.0
Director: Renato Marques
Music: Histibe soundcloud.com/histibe & Balkansky abcd.ivanshopov.com

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