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Red, Blue, Light from kynd on Vimeo.

Made with TouchDesigner Soundtrack: “Red, Blue, Light” by Yu MIyashita (underarrow.com)

Waveform from Simon Appel on Vimeo.

Waveform is an experimental short film made on an iPad.

Designed & Animated by Simon Appel instagram.com/simonappel | behance.net/pt1

Synthesized by Klint instagram.com/klint_werks

Waveform from Simon Appel on Vimeo.

Waveform is an experimental short film made on an iPad.

Designed & Animated by Simon Appel instagram.com/simonappel | behance.net/pt1

Synthesized by Klint instagram.com/klint_werks

KPMG “Change” from Loop on Vimeo.

For KPMG we crafted an experiential film that’s all about contrasts - small to large, dark to bright, our elements continuously surprise the viewer on a ride that ventures beyond the expected to examine complex questions about the future.

Pearlfisher Holiday from Rachel Reid on Vimeo.

Distortions in Spacetime Teaser from Marshmallow Laser Feast on Vimeo.

We've been beavering away with some friends on a new project that explores the mind boggling phenomena in deep space, here is a little teaser to whet your appetite. Keep your eyes and ears to the ground for more updates!

MLF / Arthur Jeffes / Samaya Nissanke

marshmallowlaserfeast.com epcmusic.com/space

Direction - Marshmallow Laser Feast Music - Arthur Jeffes Scientific Advisor - Samaya Nissanke Executive Producer - Nell Whitley Producer - Mike Jones Producer EPC Music - Lucy Protheroe Lead 3D Artist - Chris Thompson Fluid Art - Chris Parks Art RND & Look Development - Andy Overton Script Development - Barnaby Steel, Simon Wroe and Solaris Storyboard Artist - Rob Pybus Production Assistant - Alexa Romanoff

Envisioning Chemistry: Precipitation IV from Beauty of Science on Vimeo.

Precipitation reactions occur when cations and anions in solution combine to form an insoluble solid called a precipitate. This film shows the artistic exploration of the colors and forms generated by various precipitation reactions. In some cases, multiple precipitates were formed at the same time, giving rise to interesting shapes and textures.

For more images, please visit: behance.net/ZWT For more films, please visit: envisioningchemistry.com

OLĒKA - OSTENTIFEROUS from Ed Brown on Vimeo.

A lone policeman walks through a deserted city; his mission is unclear, his fate; unknown. Based on Sixties architectural renderings, 20th century black-and-white street photography, a healthy dose of Akira and trying/failing to sidestep the current vogue for occult imagery in techno artwork, the entire video is made and rendered with Cinema 4D.

CRUX with Silat Beksi (UA) 18.07.2017 @BardoBar from Maksym Shukaev on Vimeo.

CRUX with Silat Beksi (UA) 18.07.2017 @BardoBar (Фонтанская дорога 155/10)

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Splendor of Existence from Apostolos Stefanopoulos on Vimeo.

‘Splendor of Existence’ is a movie that aims to engender wonder and inspiration by drifting you through a vast dreamlike sea of tranquility. 

Headphones & Full Screen Recommended

Process: acrylic paint, oil, milk, & soap. Four months in the making Voice Over: Ross Huguet Music: Our Hope - Stefano Mocini Producer/Author: Apostolos Stefanopoulos Edit: Sean Tracy Shot with Canon 5D Mark iii EF 180mm f/3.5L Macro USM Lens Inspired by the beautiful works of various philosophers, physicists, & spiritualists

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“Men admire the mountain heights, the coursing rivers, the orbits of the stars…. and yet neglect themselves. It is forgotten that you are a function of this universe, the enteral thing that comes and goes.

When will you begin to live virtuously? One mustn’t merely flirt with the idea. Yet today we think that those who live as they teach are dreamers. A person, therefore, must claim his existence whatever it is—ugly or beautiful, wicked or mischievous—that is the beginning of virtue.

After all, what is it that most of us seek? If we strip ourselves of words and phrases, and systems with what are we actually left? Perhaps being, perfect in its shifting transience.

You see, it all lives in the mystery of the present revelation. That is what we live for. The free will, the action, and the creation. The illusion comes when we abstract ourselves from the notion that it is odd that things do exist.

As you cannot step into the same river twice, you cannot live the same moment again. It is the now that matters most. Awaken to the fact that the future is meaningless as is the past. It starts now. Not before. Not after. Is it not ironic that you are searching for yourself? Yet you have been here like an orphaned child? This strange feeling comes because you have yet to introduce yourself to your life. You cannot spectate, always watching but never engaging. Though, that is how most choose to go about living.

You are human, with all the happiness and sorrow accompanying your fate. But let there be no hang-up, all life is in endless contrast and flux. There is nothing to be fundamentally afraid of.

Possibly, the irreversibility of time awakens you. Death follows you like an omnipresent shade. Fear enters your mind like a dark cloud, but you must see past, that darkness will never triumph over light, always.

For death is but an extension of the self, as are love and happiness. Once the terror of being alone is forsaken, there is nothing to fear at all. We rest our bodies once and live forever. You are undoubtedly embedded in the fabric of the universe. The instant you can forgive and forget all is the moment you will let the universe be in you, after all, a cup is useful only when it is empty, and a mind that is filled with dogmas is an uncreative mind. Beyond the physics, the philosophy and the art of living, fundamentally, your interpretation means most. The most beautiful thing of all: the experience that is truly yours forever and ever.

There is a face that you need to wake up to: the universe is your very own, allow the mind to be exposed as is light when seen through a prism. The illusions crumble, reality a sphere and your point of view never center. You are never you, but a constant drama of energy and delight.

F R A C T A L from Ethan Smart on Vimeo.

An abstract exploration into the natural phenomenon that exhibits a repeating pattern at every scale from ocean waves, snow flakes, crystals and the rings of Saturn. Illustrated through the illusions of ink in water, and the complex formations it creates.

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VILLA from Malevo on Vimeo.

When we were invited to created a visual identity video for the REYKJAVIK VISUAL MUSIC PUNTOy RAYA FESTIVAL 2014, we wanted to have a real match with the eclectic spirit of both organisations and their mutual devotion to abstract film and live cinema. RVM & PyR Festival is a challenging offer to go back to the basics and explore endless creatives possibilities of the dot and the line through various spheres of art, music, science and thought. This video it's fundamentally based in the idea of creating error and distortion over an abstract black and white clean dot and line motiongraphics work. We created distortion thru creating a series digital glitches in the images, frame by frame, losing quality by filming the projection of the video on a wall and by printing the video frames and scanning them once again. Thus throughout this process the images lost quality over and over again, but at the same time through distortion we created colour and texture thereby reading the original geometrical abstraction to distortion abstraction. The idea explores the beauty of randomness and expressionist power. VILLA is a feast of pure dots & lines, colour, motion & sound.

VILLA means error in Icelandic.

Festival at HARPA, concert hall and conference centre in Reykjavik, Iceland. From january 30th to february 02nd 2014.

Program features among other: PyR 2014 Official Competition with around 100 dots-lines short films from 46 countries; PyR Academy with workshops and masterclasses; Premier Live Cinema Pieces with Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Hugi Gudmundsson,Sigurdur Gudjonsson, Bret Brattery; Live cinema competitions, Live sets with Ryoiji Ikeda, Ryoichi Kurokawa...

More info: puntoyrayafestival.com rcvm.is en.harpa.is

Max Cooper - Myth (Official Video by Susi Sie) from Susi Sie on Vimeo.

All scenes were filmed with a Canon 5D and a 100mm macro lens.

Title: Myth I Directed & Produced: Susi Sie I Music: Max Cooper & Tom Hodge

Merging landscapes for a mythical track by Max Cooper and Tom Hodge

„The Emergence story is built around the idea of natural laws which give rise to the world we live in. This particular chapter of the story delves into the ineffable side of the process of emergence, and the almost mythical nature of some areas of science.“ Max Cooper emergence.maxcooper.net/

NOWNESS - Demon Days from Ryan Hopkinson on Vimeo.

Working with macro lenses to play with object sizes, chemicals, explosives, blow torches, inks, speakers and blenders we set out to create an abstract World that referenced the importance of creativity, innovation, science & food culture. From burning meat to look like meteorites, dripping liquid metal on to pineapple’s, making steaks look like mountain ranges and creating Universes in blenders.

Bio-Inspire FullDome A/V Performance from Void on Vimeo.

Bio-inspire A/V Dome Performance

IAIA | Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico, USA, 2015 Fiske Planetarium - University of Colorado Boulder in Colorado, USA, 2015

BioInspire is an A/V dome performance which has screened in the Institute of American Indian Arts(New Mexico, USA) and Fiske Planetarium - University of Colorado Boulder(Colorado, USA).

Artificial neural networks(ANNs), a largely used method in machine learning and cognitive science, are inspired by the biological neural networks, namely the neural system of the animals. The ANNs are composed of several nodes, layers and connections which simulate to some extent the message exchange and processing through a biological neural network. In fact, ANNs tries to find an approximate functions that evaluate all the inputs in order to give a meaningful output concerning the data. Each function is specific to the learned data according to which the form of the ANN is shaped. So, ANN adapt itself to learn from the data, to mine it; it then turns into a generic processing model that evaluates, classify, categorize the inputs, likewise our brain, neurons and synapses.

As the quantity of layers, nodes and connections in an artificial neural network increase, the structure gets more complex. Getting the inspiration from the structure of an ANN, our aim is to redefine the complexity of a neural network using abstract objects and sound referring to it's natural form.

Direction & Animation: Void bevoid.co Director: Yusuf Emre Kucur, Bahadır Dağdelen Concept Development: Şerife Seda Kucur, Tuğçe Akkoç, Selay Karasu Project Manager: Evren Erbaşol A/V Artists: Yusuf Emre Kucur, Bahadır Dağdelen Documentation: Cüneyt Korkut Keleşoglu Sound Design: Selçuk Can Güven, Erhan Kabakci

VISUAL SCIENCE from Tatiana Plakhova on Vimeo.

mechanimal - SECRET_SCIENCE (Official Video) from denial of service on Vimeo.

now featured on the CreatorProject : thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/mechanimal-secret-science-music-video?utm_source=tcptwitterus

.. yet another entire summer's worth of delving into the complexities of esoteric cyber microscopy via complex fractal formula explorations - utilising any & all sorts of free, open source & command line software. most of the first part's sequences were shot entirely on my cheap-arse kinect360 - the resulting PCs & depth data captured via Brekel-free & manipulated in Meshlab, 3DSMax/VRay, Cebas TP, Mettle FreeForm & Trapcode Form.

audio by MECHANIMAL video by denial.of.service

Inner Ear Records IIN102L © 2014

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"Secret Science" was recorded in MECHANIMAL’s own Athens studio during the winter and spring of 2014. Written and produced by Giannis Papaioannou, founder of the band, with a long history in the Greek post- punk and electronic scene. "Secret Science" is out on vinyl including bonus cd, cassette digital album from Inner Ear Records.