animation work developed for urban screens
Beyond the Funky is an 1 minute animation work developed by using photogrammetry as part of the seminar 'Beyond the Screens' which investigates the potential of large scale urban screens and media facades as visualization zones of ecologies to make climate change tangible, visible and experiential in the public space. How can we shape natural environments and ecologies that often extend human understanding and human interests and recognize the needs and dynamics of beyond human organisms? How can we give a voice to beyond-human species presented in public spaces on digital screens and media architecture environments? How to create public consciousness at the crossroads of art, science and technologies? Beyond the Funky won Silver Award at City Digital Skin Art Festival 2024 by international jury members, and was selected to be exhibited at urban screen infrastructures in Hamburg, Paris, Milan, Singapore, Hangzhou.
Beyond the Funky suggests a move towards a more holistic and integrated understanding of the world, celebrating the diversity and complexity that lie beyond the familiar, that is somehow uncanny. It navigates through environments symbolizing various degrees of human influence and natural integration. The story begins in sterile, human-dominated spaces, here, animals appear as mere resources, their existence tamed by the demands of capitalism-artificial, static, and disconnected. Through photogrammetry, the depicted spaces are drawn from the artist's daily life, grounding abstract concepts in tangible reality. These scenes critique capitalist entanglements that reduce life to mere resources, highlighting conditions that both bind and threaten biodiversity. In a kitchen, pet dogs embody the human desire for companionship, their roles strictly defined by domestic settings. The supermarket houses farm chickens, reduced to mere commodities, their lives dictated by the insatiable human appetite for consumption. Within a shopping mall, zoo elephants symbolize exotic entertainment, their majestic presence confined to artificial displays of curiosity. A church shelters farm cows, sanctifying agricultural exploitation. The juxtaposition of a well-designed garden with aquarium fishes reflects the human penchant for aesthetic control, transforming vibrant creatures into ornamental elements. In a cemetery, beloved horses lie buried alongside their owners, freed from the burdens of their lives. Eventually, the animation immerses us in untamed realms: dense forests and the mysterious depths of the ocean. These vibrant ecosystems teem with diverse life forms the resilience and adaptability found in precarious, encounter-rich environments.
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