CMYK WITW

(cyan magenta yellow key walk in the woods)

or: An Evening Flourescent Pinkness in the midwest, or: The Structural System Deprogramming Codex, or: 40.12628439756235, -88.21342433906035

This experimental comic/animation I developed, funded by the Canopy at 900, is a 5 minute experimental Risograph printed animated short film made with 4 colors. The animation was constructed in after effects, then exported into 1200 frames, color separated, Risograph printed one color at a time, pages were sorted by quality of color alignment, then bound into 150 books. The first being well aligned and last being the least aligned, those two extremes became the animation. Music by Shanna Polley

The Canopy

The canopy is a digital art installation space, 120 linear foot screen display inside a five story high end mall in the heart of chicago. 

The space required serious technical coordination between me, the canopy at 900, and internal art direction teams, Future Gallerie and Haze Labs.

They recently hosted exhibitions with the AIC, including Caillebotte and O'keefe, as well as Andres Reisinger, and Refik Anadol.

Museum Of The Moving Image

Process Video

The Imminent is set in a broken world. In 1,000 years, humanity lives on a planet wrecked by an unkowable disaster called Universal Shift, which has completely reshaped the planet and how we survive on it. We are an amnesiac society, forgotten where we have come from.

The Imminent is Mixed Media/ARG cartooning.

The Imminent follows researchers in the 31st century focused on uncovering the lost 20th and 21st centuries. Much of that Pre-history is recovered through data.

the comic, existing simultaneously between print and web based platforms, enables that feeling of discovery for readers.

The Imminent Origins specifically follows Percy Lacroix, the founder of his own research methodology, Interior Emotional Landscape Architecture. below are a couple original drawings by Percy Lacroix

Atlas 9/Haze Labs commission

Atlas 9 is a 40,000 square foot installation space in Kansas City, KS with 2 floors and multiple permanent exhibitions. I helped with the concept and art direction phase, especially on the Seven Symbols designs and Filigree designs as well as the narrative. I wrote parts that went into the physical install for haze labs, including five rooms and 2 mirror rooms, a main attraction of the space. Images and video all focus on the hall of mirrors section. It required complex coordination from pre-production through install of a team of 20 artists and workers and producers.

WorldView Studios/Future of Life Institute Commission

Worldview Studios is focused on producing media that helps simplify scientific research. I was tasked with developing art for a campaign by Worldview about the future of A.I., the need for proper regulation of the industry, and the possible futures we might encounter if we don’t get a say in that future. For this project, I developed assets for a “scrollytelling” webpage, 13 illustrations of possible future scenarios, and an animated teaser.

For the web content, I worked closely with writers and web designers to make affective, communicative imagery.

the animation had a turnaround time of 2 weeks, and I was working by myself on a project scale for a team of three. I utilized 2.5 D animation in After Effects, 3D camera animation, and frame-by frame animation.

Some storyboards from the project (click to enlarge):

Scrollytelling images required complex integration into an animated reactive HTML webpage, which led to very specific needs for each image.

more info can be found at tomorrows-ai.org