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BehindTheScenes of MY YEAR OF D!CKS from Sara Gunnarsdottir on Vimeo.

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Passages: Inferno from Benjamin Bardou on Vimeo.

Wandering through Passage Verdeau in Paris. "Everything must change for nothing to change." — The Cheetah, Luchino Visconti Music: Within/Namiyoke Inari (Simon James French) Voice: For Ever Mozart (Jean-Luc Godard)

About the series

artpoint.xyz/artworks/passages:-inferno-benjamin-bardou

“’These passages, a new invention of industrial luxury, are glass-covered galleries, panelled with marble, which cross entire blocks of buildings whose owners have grouped together for such considerations. On either side of these galleries, which receive the daylight from above, are lined up the most elegant stores, so that such a passage is a city, a world in miniature.’ — Illustrated Guide to Paris, 1850

In these covered galleries, countless food stores, restaurants, gadgets, souvenirs, by-products and ready-to-wear items punctuate the stroll of passer-bys. It is a labyrinth where the crowd as well as the merchandise are displayed. These commercial streets are neither completely outside nor completely inside the city. They act as thresholds, places of reverie where time and the consciousness of the flâneur are altered to counter the experience of the shock of the big city. Indeed, these streets, brought to life by iron and glass architecture, are above all a refuge from the inhospitable and blinding experience that is characteristic of megacities. The transformations brought about by modernity and the commercial sphere have reified the urban space. The inhabitants of the city no longer feel at home there; they are beginning to become aware of the inhumanity of the big city.

A threshold, buffer zone, dream zone; the passage is a place where several memories and states of consciousness are superimposed (dream, awakening, awareness). The voluntary memory, that of the chaos of commodity and publicity, rubs shoulders with the collective unconscious, the Ideal and the Utopia. The collective memory is a compound of truth and betrayal, of authentic utopia and phantasmagorical utopia, nurtured by the dream of the commodity. The architecture of the passage is the reification of this thought, and it is thus a testimony of the collective dream.

The passages would appear then as an antechamber of the collective awakening, where dialectic images show themselves in their double sense: on the one hand turned towards the myth and the archaic, the other turned towards the promise of social progress. The awakening of the collective appears then as a synthesis of a dreaming consciousness, and the antithesis of the awakened consciousness.

This artistic project, conceived as a triptych, has the task of presenting these different forms of memory that sway the crowds and circulate amongst the Parisian passages.”

Benjamin Bardou

Though these works can be collected individually, the series was designed as a triptych. The collector of the full triptych will receive an exclusive airdrop of an NFT by Benjamin Bardou. Applicable only once, to the first collector who acquires all three artworks.

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Notre-Dame de Paris, HistoPad Exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. from HISTOVERY on Vimeo.

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REVO_001.mp4 from marimosphere on Vimeo.

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COMPATIBILITY from FUMITO GANRYU on Vimeo.

Creative director: Jamie Webster and Adam Wray Production: Common Good Photographer: Norman Wong 3D: Mikey Corpuz Stylist: Jackie McKeown Hair/Make Up: Sabrina Rinaldi Movement Director: Kristie Muller

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HYTEK_2020 from HYTEK on Vimeo.

We are TECH - ENTERTAINMENT - LABEL "HYTEK". hytek.co.jp/

- BRINGING “HIGH” to “HYPE” - HYTEK is a technology entertainment company with a collection of contents co-created with partner companies. “HY” in HYTEK comes from the slang word “HYPE”, as in to stir up enthusiasm in people, and “TEK” comes from the abbreviation of “TECHNOLOGY”, first used by an American music producer in the 1990s. Even when the most advanced technology is off the beaten path to most people, HYTEK will update the concept of “High-Technology” by using creativity and PR advertising skills. Together with our partner companies, we will create contents that overcome language barriers and spread the attraction around the world.

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Creating 360 Augmented Spheres in Adobe Aero from Russell Preston Brown on Vimeo.

Learn the basics of creating 360 bubble-like spheres in Adobe Aero. You can now capture a 360 experience with a 360 camera like the Ricoh Theta Z1, or many other 360 camera. Then you can share the experience with friend or social media followers around the world.

360 Redwood Forest Experience adobeaero.app.link/5I1WvcGS54 #adobeaero

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fanaa from S A H A R on Vimeo.

fanaa in Sufism is the "passing away" or "annihilation"(of the self). It means "to die before one dies". The story is derived from Attar’s (12th-century Persian Sufi poet) book of “The Conference of the Birds”.

The journey commences by the arrival into a moment of awakening and progresses towards dissolution and ultimately the state of absolute nothingness, where identity loses meaning and only then, one is ready to traverse into re-birth. The musical dramaturgy progresses from a cinematic ambient rumble with a deep bass towards atmospheric minimal dark techno tunes, with a grounding into frequencies that are chakra tuning.

Created by: Sahar Homami

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Machine Hallucinations : Nature Dreams from Refik Anadol on Vimeo.

Machine Hallucinations : Nature Dreams

Imagining nature as a totality that fills the gaps in our otherwise narrow perception of the cosmos lies at the heart of Anadol’s Nature Dreams – a series of synaesthetic reality experiments based on GAN algorithms developed by artificial intelligence. Applying machine learning to 68,986,479 million images and creating a dataset that transforms into a collective latent cinematic experience, the piece commemorates the beauty of this land we share.

The final immersive artwork incorporates pigments, shapes, and patterns that we associate with our sensory experiences with nature while paying homage to its unbound poetic sublimity.

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Chasing Ghosts — A Series of Discreet Landmarks from Dpt. on Vimeo.

Chasing Ghosts is a series of discreet landmarks found in Montreal. It is a work in progress driven by the stories these places tell as well as an ongoing exploration in volumetric capture and real time rendering.

Discreet landmarks are capable of modifying their properties in order to be able to differentiate themselves from their surrounding environment.

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QT.bot – Sitting here with you in the future from Lucas LaRochelle on Vimeo.

QT.bot is an artificial intelligence, trained on the textual and visual data of Queering The Map, that generates speculative queer futures and the environments in which they occur. Their digital mind is constructed from an implementation of the Open AI GPT-2 text generation model trained on over 82 000 text entries from the platform, and a StyleGAN trained on scraped Google Street View imagery of the tagged coordinates on Queering The Map.

QT.bot’s first video output, Sitting here with you in the future, is a deep dream into the collective (cyber)spaces of possible queer futurities.The narratives and landscapes of speculative LGBTQ2IA+ life generated by QT.bot straddle the line between the plausible and the fantastic, revelling in the potential of failure, chaos and incommensurability in the queer use of machine learning technologies. In collaboration with the voices of their human community, QT.bot fabulates on the absences of the archive, orienting us away from what is, or has been, and towards what could be.

Project By: Lucas LaRochelle

Sound Design: Rouzbeh Shadpey

StyleGAN Engineer: Mattie Tesfaldet

Mastering: Philippe Vandal

Supported By: Studio XX, Social Service Club, and MUTEK

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Great martian war from PLAZMA on Vimeo.

Archive recreation taken from The Great Martian War documentary by impossible factual for History Canada. Directed by Mike Slee VFX/Animation Director : Christian Johnson, (Plazma). and Steve Maher (impossible factual). plazmadesign.co.uk Music: "88" by Working for a Nuclear Free City. history.co.uk/shows/the-great-martian-war

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Interactive Basketball Court: Bring New Dimensions Into Play from Moment Factory on Vimeo.

Get ready to up your game. Expand your movement, expand your experience. Our precise, high-speed motion tracking and projection maps to any surface, taking movement into new dimensions of interactive play. Welcome to a new playground. Welcome to Moment Factory’s Augmented Games.

momentfactory.com/work/all/all/interactive-basketball-court

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Soyez prêt à perfectionner votre jeu. Intensifiez votre mouvement, intensifiez votre expérience. Notre technologie de suivi précis des mouvements alliée à une projection qui mappe n'importe quelle surface, ouvre une nouvelle dimension au jeu interactif. Bienvenue sur votre nouveau terrain de jeu. Bienvenue dans les jeux augmentés de Moment Factory.

momentfactory.com/projets/tous/tous/terrain-de-basket-ball-interactif

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Samsung/Toronto Blue Jays Pitch Moment - Digital Activation from Bully Entertainment on Vimeo.

Working with Canadian powerhouse We Are Cinco, Bully/Mixed River created a gesture sensing 'Pitch Moment' on display at Blue Jay's homestands and designed to highlight Samsung's new 4k displays.

The system uses an AI system to analyze a web cam feed and look for specific gestures and motions - first registering a throwing arm, identifying a winding up and tracking the pitch. Depending on the customer's throw, a unique outcome is presented.

Much love to HologramSoft and Wrnch.ai for their wizardry.

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Ixian Gate - VR Trailer from Simon Ward on Vimeo.

Video promo for IXIAN GATE, a virtual reality collaboration between Jess Johnson and Simon Ward. Showing in NYC at Jack Hanley Gallery, 7 September - 8 October.

Previously exhibited ... National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, Dec-Feb 2016 ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/jess-johnson/ Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Aug-Oct 2017

Press for Ixian Gate and Jess Johnson versions.killscreen.com/the-gorgeous-unsettling-worlds-of-jess-johnson/ roadtovr.com/ixian-gate-is-a-mind-bending-vr-ride-through-the-mind-of-artist-jess-johnson/ thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_au/blog/watch-trailer-for-jess-john huffingtonpost.com/entry/jess-johnson-sci-fi-drawings_us_57310970e4b096e9f09264b9

Trailer credits: Artwork - Jess Johnson / jessjohnson.org Animation - Simon Ward / siward.tv Sound - Andrew Clarke

Watch Jess and Simon's first video, Mnemonic Pulse vimeo.com/88710870

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"ISHVARA" Performance Trailer from Tianzhuo Chen on Vimeo.

"ISHVARA", Directed by Tianzhuo Chen, feature House of Drama,Kirikoo Des, Ndoho Ange, Beio, China Yu, Jojo. Music by Aisha Devi, Nodey, Li JianHong+Wei Wei+Yue Xuan, Roumita+Sayak, Adrian Mihai

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Three - Phones Are Good from Ian Pons Jewell on Vimeo.

Production: Friend London Director: Ian Pons Jewell Executive Producer: Luke Jacobs Producer: Jon Adams Director of Photography: Mauro Chiarello Production Designer: Mark Connell Costume Designer: Ameena Callender Service Company: Radioaktive Film Casting: Kharmel Cochrane Storyboard: Oliver Harud

Agency: Wieden + Kennedy London Creative Director: Hollie Walker Creatives: Tom Bender, Tom Corcoran Executive Creative Directors: Iain Tait, Tony Davidson TV Producer: Richard Adkins TV Production Assistant: Aran Patterson

VFX: Time Based Arts VFX Supervisor: James Allen VFX Head of Production: Josh Robinson VFX Production Assistant: Sean Ewins Lead VFX Artist: Luke Todd Flame Artists: Matt Jackson, Leo Weston, David Birkhill, Stephen Grasso, Jamie Crofts Nuke Artists: Leandro Vazquez, Matt Shires, Bernardo Varela, Sarah Breakwell, George Cressey, Ralph Briscoe, Manolo Perez CG Artists: Oscar Diez, James Spillman, Mike Battcock, Jon Park, James Mann, Nigel Timms, Daniel Davie, Gareth Bell, Cesar Eiji Nunes, David Loh, Michael Hunault, Federico Guzzardo, Florian Mounie, Dan Hope Matte Painters: Lisa Ayla, Sylvie Minois Colorist: Simone Grattarola

Edit: Cut & Run Editor: Ben Campbell Edit Assistant: Chris Hutchings Edit Producer: Ruth Minkley

Sound Company: 750mph Sound Designer: Sam Ashwell, Jake Ashwell Sound Producer: Mary-Ann D’Cruz

Music Supervisor: John Connon @ Mr. Pape