Flyknit →
I’ve always loved what descriptiv do in general but this work especially sticks in my head because it’s so clever and striking to me.
The Box - Samsung 360 →
Antilop do some amazing work and is one of the greatest studios that do this type of stuff. This one particular project they were commissioned to produce 360 degree immersive infinity room to Samsung Ireland for their product launch Galaxy S8.
https://universaleverything.com/projects/superconsumers
The South Korean luxury department store The Hyundai invited Universal Everything to direct a series of video artworks for a 30-metre-high LED video wall covering its facade in Seoul.
Superconsumers is a response to the luxury consumer products on sale within the department store. Universal Everything created a series of extreme digital-pop-art amplifications of these products, bringing them to life as a diverse, animated parade of characters – from metallic puffer jackets to elaborate jewellery, gastronomical creations to bold floral arrangements.
Commissioned by Hyundai ArtLab
Creative Directors: Matt Pyke, Mike Hughes
Senior Producer: Greg Povey
Animators: Joe Street, Rupert Burton, Chris Perry
Soundtrack : Simon Pyke
Universal Everything →
This isn’t the first time I posted Universal Everything and wont be the last. I’ve been a fan of Matt’s work since he started the studio and time after time, it continues to inspire and amaze me.
TYPOP-UP →
Mónika Rudics is a graphic designer from Budapest who created this stunningly playful typography book.
Engram : Data Sculpture, 3+1 AP
6M x 5M, 3MM LED Media Wall, Custom Software
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From February 7 through March 17, 2018, Pilevneli Gallery presented Refik Anadol’s latest project on the materiality of remembering. Melting Memories offered new insights into the representational possibilities emerging from the intersection of advanced technology and contemporary art. By showcasing several interdisciplinary projects that translate the elusive process of memory retrieval into data collections, the exhibition immersed visitors in Anadol’s creative vision of “recollection.”
“Science states meanings; art expresses them,” writes American philosopher John Dewey and draws a curious distinction between what he sees as the principal modes of communication in both disciplines. In Melting Memories, Refik Anadol’s expressive statements provide the viewer with revealing and contemplative artworks that will generate responses to Dewey’s thesis.
Comprising data paintings, augmented data sculptures and light projections, the project as a whole debuts new advances in technology that enable visitors to experience aesthetic interpretations of motor movements inside a human brain. Each work grows out of the artist’s impressive experiments with the advanced technology tools provided by the Neuroscape Laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco. Neuroscape is a neuroscience center focusing on technology creation and scientific research on brain function of both healthy and impaired individuals. Anadol gathers data on the neural mechanisms of cognitive control from an EEG (electroencephalogram) that measures changes in brain wave activity and provides evidence of how the brain functions over time. These data sets constitute the building blocks for the unique algorithms that the artist needs for the multi-dimensional visual structures on display.
Anadol’s installations do not only address a productive espousal of cutting-edge technology and art but also a strong preoccupation with the study of human memory from Ancient Egyptians to Blade Runner 2049. The exhibition’s title, Melting Memories, refers to the artist’s experience with unexpected interconnections among seminal philosophical works, academic inquiries and artworks that take memory as their principal themes. The title further draws attention to the melting of neuroscience and technology into these centuries-long philosophical debates, questioning the emergence of a new space where artificial intelligence is not in conflict with individuality and intimacy.
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PROCESS
Data collection process utilized a 32-channel Enobio and standard protocol configuration. Participants were instructed to focus on specific long-term memories during the recording process. A control recording was also conducted to identify artifacts to later filter with adaptive notch filtering and limiting the frequency range. For analysis we focused on beta (13-17Hz) and theta (3-7Hz) channels, isolating activation points corresponding to short term and long-term (specifically episodic) memory. Our selections were the Fp1, Fp2, F7, F8, P3, P4, C3, C4, T7, T8, O1, and O2 nodes, which were also used to drive noise parameters within the real-time simulation. For scaling we applied Higuchi’s fractal dimension algorithm and used FFT for a moving average. Recurrent neural nets (via EEGLearn) we used on the recording sessions to generate spectral outputs, which were then utilized as height maps for the visual representation pipeline.
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Bashivan, et al. "Learning Representations from EEG with Deep Recurrent-Convolutional Neural Networks. International conference on learning representations(2016)
VVVV
Transposing EEG data in to procedural noise forms was a really engaging challenge, both technically and conceptually. In the input data and our mapped representation you can find recurrence and rhythm but also hints of higher dimensional structures. We wanted to do this efficiently and in real time and so working on Melting Memories dovetailed nicely with putting the last touches on FieldTrip, an (at the time pre-release) open source GPU library for HLSL/VVVV. It allowed us to use a composite design pattern to very quickly iterate while producing the aesthetic structures used in the project. This approach enabled us to really explore some deeper procedural functions whilst keeping a completely modular graphics pipeline. This modularity makes it easy and clean to expand on the project’s abstracted content in really interesting ways, such as further integration of machine learning on the source data, evolving rendering techniques
and the creation of sculpted physical artifacts.
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CREDITS
Designed &Developed at Refik Anadol Studio
Nicholas Boss
Efsun Erkilic
Kian Khiaban
Ho Man Leung
Raman K. Mustafa
Toby Heinemann
Sound Design : Kerim Karaoglu
Software Development : Kyle McLean / Steffan Klaue
Scientific Support
UCSF / Neuroscape Lab Members
Adam Gazzaley, M.D., PH.D.
Refik Anadol →
Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is a media artist and director. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where he owns and operates Refik Anadol Studio. Anadol is also a lecturer and researcher for UCLA's Department of Design Media Arts from which he obtained his Master of Fine Arts.
SANDSARA →
The Kinetic Sculpture That Draws Infinite Patterns On Sand.
The project is currently looking for crowd-funding via Kickstarter
Tianjin Binhai Library →
MVRDV and Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute (TUPDI) have completed Tianjin Binhai Library as part of a larger masterplan to provide a cultural district for the city. The 33,700m2 cultural centre featuring a luminous spherical auditorium and floor-to-ceiling cascading bookcases functions not only as an education centre but as a social space and connector from the park into the cultural district.
Ranganath Krishnamani →
Stunning Illustration work from Designer based in Bangalore, India.
Oscar Oiwa →
Oscar Oiwa is a Brazilian-American painter.
INTO THE LIGHT is an installation featuring the art of Sougwen Chung and the music of Yoyo Ma. The 3-dimensional drawings compose scenes inspired by manifold interpretations of light; as natural phenomena, bodily meridians and cosmic microwave background, a remnant of the earliest light of the universe.
A TRAVERSE EXPERIENCE
In collaboration with Vrai Pictures & Superbright
For more information, please visit https://sougwen.com/project/into-the-light
Sougwen Chung →
Chung's work explores the mark-made-by-hand and the mark-made-by-machine as an approach to understanding the dynamics of humans and systems. Chung is a former research fellow at MIT’s Media Lab and a pioneer in the field of human-machine collaboration.
Her speculative critical practice spans performance, installation, and drawings which have been featured in numerous exhibitions at museums and galleries around the world.
Ray Ray →
Ray Ray is a Melbourne based, self taught home baker with a crazy talent for making food look unique and intriguing.
New Light by Gali May Lucas →
New light sculpture by Design Bridge and Gali May Lucas highlights our obsession with staring at screens. Full article at Creative Boom
Winter Will Never End →
I’m always blown away by the photos this instagram account posts. It’s both beautiful and inspirational.
We investigate the possibilities to identify motion as a continuous walk in a latent space of situations. Blackberry Winter is a triptychon of artificial human motion in asymmetry. We developed three different choreographies of human bodies and their ongoing neural relationship in reference to each other, using our custom machine learning solution to weave spatial information into contemporary GAN technology.
https://christianmioloclair.com
Art Direction: Christian Mio Loclair
AI Artist: Meredith Thomas
Executive Production: Celia Bugniot
Music: Christian Losert
Design: AJ Walsh
Blackberry Winter →
Investigates the possibilities to identify motion as a continuous walk in a latent space of situations. Blackberry Winter is a triptychon of artificial human motion in asymmetry. We developed three different choreographies of human bodies and their ongoing neural relationship in reference to each other, using our custom machine learning solution to weave spatial information into contemporary GAN technology.
BIY™ (Believe it Yourself) →
Created by Shanghai based design studio automato.farm, ‘BIY™ – Believe it Yourself‘ is a series of real-fictional belief-based computing kits to make and tinker with vernacular logics and superstitions.
The team worked with experts in fortune telling from Italy, geomancy from China and numerology from India to translate their knowledge and beliefs into three separate kits – BIY.SEE, BIY.MOVE and BIY.HEAR. They invite users to tinker with cameras that can see luck*, microphones that interpret your destiny*, and compasses that can point you to harmony and balance*.
Source: CreativeApplications.net
Xi Ding →
Talented illustrator who specializes in caricature speed drawing.
We were commissioned by Spotify for their 2019 Premium Campaign in which we worked closely with their creative team to develop a series of 11 videos and 25 illustrations on the theme of ever-changing moods and the ability of music to help shape and change our feelings.
Direction
Cabeza Patata - Katie Menzies & Abel Reverter
Lead 3D Direction
Laura Sirvent & Abel Reverter
Clothing and Textile Design
Katie Menzies
Clothing Design & Fabrication
Abel Reverter & Laura Sirvent
2D Pattern Design
Katie Menzies
Lead Character Animator
Raúl Ibarra
Character Rigging
Laura Sirvent
Character Animation
Chill: Andrea Ferrara
Energetic: Daniela Avilés
Celebratory: Andrea Ferrara
Happy: Pablo Gonzalez
Optimistic: Raúl Ibarra
Empowered: Raúl Ibarra
The Feels: Daniela Avilés
Stressed: Pablo Gonzalez
Love: Charlotte Kristof
Exited: Raúl Ibarra
Confident: Pablo Gonzalez
2D Animation
Phong Luong
Cabeza Patata x Spotify
A series of 11 videos and 25 illustrations on the theme of ever-changing moods and the ability of music to help shape and change our feelings.
Aleksey Soloviev
Aleksey Soloviev is an illustrator based in Izhevsk, Russia. Obsessed with smooth vector lines, love to create a unique and distinctive style of illustration.
Big Timelapse Stories - Episode 1: The 30 Year Timelapse Joe DiGiovanna is using timelapse photography to film the New York skyline changing over the years, directly from his apartment. Discover his story! Follow The 30 Year Timelapse Project - https://www.instagram.com/nyc_timescape/ Download my Online Courses https://www.emerictimelapse.com/courses/ Follow me on Instagram https://instagram.com/emerictimelapse/ ----------- - Download my Timelapse and Hyperlapse Videos https://www.emerictimelapse.com/ ----------- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The 30 Year Timelapse →
Joe DiGiovanna is using timelapse photography to film the New York skyline changing over the years, directly from his apartment. Discover his story! Follow The 30 Year Timelapse Project - https://www.instagram.com/nyc_timescape/