You probably have seen a diorama (a small-scale replica of a scene) before but this one is got to be amongst the cutest ones.
Made as part of the graduation work of students at Otis College of Art and Design (California), the project took 3 months to film. The details are very impressive and the scene flows nicely.
One to watch: Mike Ko
Keywords: modelling, 3D, diorama 
'Unnamed Sculpture' is a moving sculpture that reproduces the body data in the shape of a motion sculpture. Using 3 kinect cameras the artists have recorded the dancers movements and have created a multidimensional piece that plays very well with space and sound, with physicality and virtuality. As the editor says, " with the complex quasi-static, inconsistent forms the body is painting, a new reality space emerges whose simulated aesthetics goes far beyond numerical codes". Very nice work.
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Artist note:
Matter is a time-based digital sculpture; a celebration of matter itself, the substance of all physical things. It describes a continuous dynamic articulation of a solid, pure block of matter, from the simplest primitive forms to the highest details of geometric complexities, and vice versa... from the unpredictable grace of geological processes to the perfection, beauty and precision of man made crafts.
The subject of this piece is Rodin’s sculpture Le Penseur (The Thinker), a masterpiece born as the avant-garde that has since become a universal classical icon, and now considered the bridge from classical to modern sculpture.
Commissioned by Audemars Piguet
Opening March 21st, Park Avenue Armory, New York
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Medium is stunning audio & visual piece by Emptyset and visual collaborators Clayton Welham and Sam Williams. The project created around the Woodchester Mansion in Gloucestershire. The Gothic 
Woodchester Mansion
There were recordings with vintage mics and other analog machines then transformed into the powerful sounds you hear. All footage was filmed on site and broadcast, processed and captured before editing, mirroring Emptyset's 'chain of sound' processes.
Keywords: av, analogue, sound, process, abandoned architecture
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SYNOPSIS
In a post-nuclear future, when the earth is riddled with radiation, a new urban developer proposes to regenerate the cities back into civilisation. GAMMA sets out to stabilise the atomic mistakes of yesteryear for the re-inhabitation of future generations. Using its patented 'Nuke-Root' technology; part fungi, part mollusc, GAMMA intends to soak up the radiation and remove it from the irradiated cities, rebuilding them in the process.
Setting out from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, GAMMA launches its RIG_01 BETA and heads east to the iconic disaster sites of 1980's USSR. The film follows a group of researchers investigating GAMMA's practice from launch to deployment. Moving through a trail of unsuccessful ships across the desert, we follow the researchers from Aralsk's littered sea bed east to the Ukraine.
GAMMA begins its quest of nuclear stability in the Ukraine; Pripyat is used as a test bed for the deployment of GAMMA's patented 'Nuke-root' organisms. Intended to soak up the radiation, the roots infiltrate the ground and built structures to absorb the ‘nuclear nasty's'. As with many urban developers, GAMMA's execution is cheap and ineffective. The city is in turn rendered more radioactive, broken and uninhabitable than before, only now with an outbreak of growing 'Nuke-roots'. The film follows the researchers through the ruins of the 70's utopia, moving across a whole city that consists solely of desolation and total abandon, the researchers witness the aftermath of GAMMA's almighty cock-up.
GAMMA is directed by Factory Fifteen and was filmed in the Ukraine and Kazakhstan in association with the Unknown Fields Division.
Keywords: scifi, chernobly, architecture
This week we have been captured by the simple smile of this happy man, a little break from our busy London lives into the life of Johnny Barnes, happy day!
Timo Arnall who is creative director at BERG has created a short film experimenting with footage from machine-vision. Using footage from many sources, he explores the aesthetics of robotic vision that is mostly being used for traffic exercises and face recognition. The result is an interesting film with a pixelated theme and saturated colours. For us it opens questions about surveillance, privacy and of course robots.
Note from the author:
"This is a short film, an experiment in machine-vision footage. It uses found-footage from computer vision research to explore how machines are making sense of the world. As robots begin to inhabit the world alongside us, how do they see and gather meaning from our streets, cities, media and from us? Machines have a tiny, fractional view of our environment, that sometimes echoes our own human vision and often doesn’t."
Find Timo's website: 
A video documentary that was commissioned by 
Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence. By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network.
A fascinating data visualisation animation that illustrates how personal data is used in the web. We live in the era of information technology. Our digital identities are stored and used in the web by different third parties, but how much do we know about this? how could we gradually own more our own identities?
Keywords: information technology, motion graphics, datavisualisation, digital identity
Cymatics is a kinetic sound sculpture that expresses the artist's vision of nature, harmonising a series of symbolic elements in a technological context. Sound waves act on substances such as water and non-newtonian fluid, moving them to create balanced environments.
Water is used like a canvas on which a highly technological system designs and creates geometrical shapes through sound sequences generated by the artist.
The non-newtonian fluid takes on different shapes in response to different musical frequencies, in a continuous shifting between solid and liquid states.
Grid is an Augmented Reality environment created by 
To play with the app you will need to use Google Chrome to get all the features, also don't forget to put your headphones on. When you enter a word in the screen it will generate a sequence of techno beats depending on different things like number of vowels or happiness index. The result is fun and love the interface, so well done Antony!
Motomichi Nakamura Monster
Motomichi Nakamura Monster 2
YVES GELEYN
The French illustrator and designer who 2 years ago created a beautiful moving image piece for La Gaite Lyrique.
Yves Geleyn
GANGOPOL & MIT
The eclectic French audio-visual duo who played an amazing live set at Alpha-ville 2010.
Gangpol & Mit
Well done Pictoplasma & Gaite Lyrique!
And if you are in Paris, you have no excuse to miss it.
Keywords: illustration, design, characters, monsters, postdigital.
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