Pixels in progress
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A United Visual Artists project.
From the UVA website:
Marking the 20th anniversary of UVA's first collaboration with Massive Attack for their 100th Window Tour, UVA joined forces with Robert Del Naja and filmmaker Adam Curtis to create a new live show for the band's 2024/25 tour. Building on its predecessor, UVA reimagines the 100th Window aesthetic and its concepts for the present day whilst creating a stark juxtaposition with Adam Curtis's distinctive film style.
A monolithic LED screen transforms the stage into a dynamic, interactive entity. The show presents themes including algorithmic bias, fake news, context collapse, and the industrial-military complex. Using live data feeds, generative content, and real-time facial recognition, it highlights the profound technological shifts shaping our world.
The experience, often confrontational, challenges audiences to question whether recent technological advancements are guiding us toward utopia or catastrophe.
Photography by United Visual Artists and James Medcraft
Roles mainly consisted of Touchdesigner tool development including:
Tools for manipulating text into procedural formations
Generative recursive geometric animation systems using python
GLSL text animation & particle system
GLSL shaders and python scripts for visual effects
