Liminal by Pierre Huyghe
Liminal, 2024; real-time simulation, sound, sensors © Pierre Huyghe
Liminal is a real-time simulation. A body is represented as a faceless image in a limitless realm. The body acts as an envelope, animated by a sophisticated AI that also determines the editing and framing of its depiction. The human form makes subtle gestures, a language which is read by the inhuman entity. In reaction to these gestures, the inhuman entity responds by imparting different behaviors to the human form. Thus, a human shape, without face, without brain, without subjectivity and without world, receives real-time information through various sensors that continuously generate its movements.
Role: 3D Artist; Lighting, Cameras & Character Animation
Software: Unreal Engine 5
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Spaghetti Blockchain by Mika Rottenberg
Spaghetti Blockchain, 2019; 4k video installation with 7.1 surround sound, color © Mika Rottenberg
Spaghetti Blockchain opens with a throat singer from the Tuva region of the vast Siberian prairie. As the film goes on, the deep drone of her voice in the expansive natural landscape is juxtaposed with highly technical imagery and the low electronic hum of the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator that Rottenberg filmed while she was a guest artist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), near Geneva. What follows is a series of strange and colourful scenes that evoke the satisfaction induced by ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) videos: a hand slices a roll of gelatin and fries it, another squishes a mound of turquoise dough, and a third noisily stirs a bunch of colourful plastic balls.
Role: Production Assistant & Visual Effects
Software: Adobe Premiere Pro & Adobe After Effects
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