Benjamin A Ridgway
Time needs a witness. This is a meditation on the perception of time and the ever changing state of reality.
Artist Bio:
Ben is a CalArts graduate and a games industry veteran. His career has spanned through both the industry and academia since 1998. While in the games industry he helped create games for Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft console systems. More recently he assisted in the production of a virtual reality experience, IO Moon for the Oculus Rift - http://www.headtripgames.com/iomoon/ Ben’s animations have been showcased at film festivals worldwide including Sundance, CANNES, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Anima Mundi. He has been invited numerous times to present at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference. His work has been published in “History of Animation” by Maureen Furniss. Ben has won numerous animation festival awards and has received the Vimeo Staff Pick Award for his films “Cosmic Flower Unfolding”, “Tribocycle”, and “Inner Space Artifacts”. In addition to creating animated abstract cinematic experiences for the movie screen, Ben uses virtual reality, sculpture, and digital art as part of his growing body of work.
Director's Statement:
“I am an innerspace excavator. My goal is to dig deep into the inner spatial worlds and ideas we engage with in our minds and bring them into physical form. Where words fall short, visual language, sound, and all of the senses can be used to communicate worlds of abstraction in a universally understandable manner."
Huh Hyunjung
While running along the riverside, the narratives made by reflection and refraction of lights are slowly flowing and sparkling.
Artist Bio:
Graphic artist / Animator based in Seoul. Focusing on ambiguous and indefinite narratives created by dots and lines, works across boundaries ...
Zak Loyd and Melanie Clemmons
Simulation of a post-human speculative future nature preserve. Created by "Clemmons & Loyd" 2019
Artist Bios:
Clemmons & Loyd is a collaboration between Melanie Clemmons and Zak Loyd. We have worked together since 2009, composing immersive video installat...
João Pedro Oliveira
A tesseract, also defined as an hypercube is the four-dimensional equivalent of the cube. This video presents a possible journey throughout the six faces of a cube, and how they can be transformed and projected into a tesseract using different processes: translation, rotation...
