Project:Advanced Beauty
Client: Universal Everything
Date: 2007

Production of Moving Image work for Advanced Beauty, a compilation of computer graphics, produced in collaboration with Alex Peverett.

Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects.

The first collection is a series of audio-reactive 'video sound sculptures'. Inspired by synasthesia, the rare, sensory experience of seeing sound or tasting colours, these videos are physical manifestations of sound, sculpted by volume, pitch or structure of the soundtrack

The films embrace unusual video making processes, the visual programming language Processing, high-end audio analysis and fluid dynamic simulations alongside intuitive responses in traditional cell animation. Each artist was given the same set of parameters to work within; to start, finish and exist within a white space, creating a seamless coherence, all sculptures sharing the same white environment.

Using 1920 HD format, with 5:1 surround sound, the films transform the screen into a digital canvas, how the minimalism of a single, floating pixel can be as engaging as the maximalism of an intense multicoloured explosion. Curated by Universal Everything and musician Freeform, Advanced Beauty is an international collaboration, taking in a family of artists from London, Russia, New York, Japan, Buenos Aires, Glasgow to San Francisco.

Screenings:

Showing at Apple Quicktime HD Gallery

Advanced Beauty released on iTunes and Vimeo. Links below...

Apple are screening Advanced Beauty at Cannes Lions 17/06/08,
15.00hrs, 17 June.

Lovebytes Festival of Digital Art, Sheffield, 12/05/08

www.advancedbeauty.org