DESIGN
THE UNCANNY VALLEY: is an ongoing art-research-theory project combines virtual reality and game engine-created characters with scenes from everyday life as a technical an experiment for photography, graphic novel/animation and film. Call it the magical realism of the 21st century with the theory behind here being around “locative media” and “ubiquituos computing” where the overlap of virtual and non-virtual reality is predicted to be the next evolution of the Internet. Click HERE to see more.
THE ‘-DIVIDUAL’ CITY: is a portrait of a global cities, an visual experiment that attempts to provide an a-anthropocentric vision of the world: not seeing frozen moments, but seeing fluctuating frame-rates, seeing different timescales of existence from cars to people to buildings to nature bubbling in-between. I used a customized technique of photography that combines multiple exposure-photography with high-dynamic-range-imaging (HDR) and digital painting to give the pictures a time-based feeling and movement to them. Click HERE to see more. Some of the techniques explained HERE.
HDRI PHOTOGRAPHY: Series of recent experiment in high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) photography and the possibilities this offers for artistic expression. The problem with HDRI is that it is often used to create hyperrealist effects that, unfortunately, look too often plastic and artificial. I was therefore interested in using HDR to create simple aesthetics in black and white and classical nature photography. Click HERE to see more.
POSTERATIONS: A series of posters I did for the talks and seminars with film makers and speakers organized by the research collective SACREDMEDIACOW. The aim of these posters was to make them as simple as possible as they had to be photocopied black and white — a sort of guerilla postering to promote interesting speakers from all over the world. So no conscious Bauhaus functionalism and minimalism here; just low budgets. Click HERE to see more.
JANTAR MANTAR PROJEKT: Illustrations for an experimental fiction book / performance combining astrology, technology, folklore, magic by our collaborator DJ Fadereu. This was a combination of analog ink drawings (yes, by hand!) mixed in graphics work in Photoshop. Click HERE to see more.
Matti is a researcher, designer and visual artist working with emerging digital technologies globally. He is currently dayjobbing as a Teaching Fellow in Digital Culture at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London and spends time shuttling between London, Helsinki and the rest of the world.
Soum is a new media technology architect, ex-mixercast founding member, filmmaker, photographer, and a general wanderer who lives partly in London and rest of the time in Mumbai. He builds scalable web sites, dabbles in emerging technologies, and spends rest of his time in various film and photography projects.