Tim Maughan (previously) writes, “Here’s the teaser for our short film WHERE THE CITY CAN’T SEE - the first narrative film shot with laser scanners.”
Directed by speculative architect Liam Young and written by fiction author Tim Maughan and designed ‘Where the City Can’t See’ is the world’s first narrative fiction film shot entirely with laser scanners. The computer vision systems of driverless cars goggle maps, urban management systems and CCTV surveillance are now fundamentally reshaping urban experience and the cultures of our city. Set in the Chinese owned and controlled Detroit Economic Zone (DEZ) and shot using the same scanning technologies used in autonomous vechicles, we see this near future city through the eyes of the robots that manage it.
Exploring the subcultures that emerge from these new technologies the film follows a group of young car factory workers across a single night, as they drift through the smart city point clouds in a driverless taxi, searching for a place they know exists but that the map doesn’t show. They are part of an underground community that work on the production lines by day but at night, adorn themselves in machine vision camouflage and the tribal masks of anti-facial recognition to enact their escapist fantasies in the hidden spaces of the city. They hack the city and journey through a network of stealth buildings, ruinous landscapes, ghost architectures, anomalies, glitches and sprites, searching for the wilds beyond the machine. We have always found the eccentric and imaginary in the spaces the city can’t see.
This really beautiful series is a result of data produced by one of the largest cosmological simulations ever
performed, led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE)
Argonne National Laboratory.
The
simulation, run on the Titan supercomputer at DOE’s Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, modeled the evolution of the universe from just 50 million
years after the Big Bang to the present day. Over the course of 13.8 billion years, the
matter in the universe clumped together to form galaxies, stars and
planets; but we’re not sure precisely how.
Intensive sky surveys with powerful telescopes, like the Sloan
Digital Sky Survey, show
scientists where galaxies and stars were when their light was first
emitted. And surveys of the Cosmic Microwave Background, light remaining
from when the universe was only 300,000 years old, show us how the
universe began—"very uniform, with matter clumping together over time,“
said Katrin Heitmann, an Argonne physicist who led the simulation.
Credit: Heitmann et. al.
// Budding universe visualization and simulations blow my mind… //
The first ( seen in the first animation) took place on September 7 and the second one on the second of November. They were initially thought to be some plane crash, but was later confirmed to be small meteor showers.
This fictional advertising campaign is a dystopian take on a future with room only for those able to afford their own body parts. The campaign idea and the products have all been designed and illustrated by Chantal Sherif, with art direction from Tarek Abdelkawi.
I used olympic athletes as an inspiration and a metaphor for physical superiority in the posters, and I translated sports and movements into organs.
