by Todd Brache
Machine Learning is a set of futurist films by Universal Everything. It forms part of the studio’s Hype Cycle series, which explores human-machine collaboration through performance and emerging technologies. With Machine Learning, Universal Everything poses the question: when will machines achieve human agility? check more videos below
Bioturbation is the mixing of (plant) residues into soils and sediments by biotic activity. It is one of the fundamental processes in ecology, as it stimulates decomposition, creates habitats for other (micro)fauna and increases gas- and water flow through the soil.
This time lapse movie shows bioturbation by 3 earthworms species. By
Wim van Egmond
In this 3D animated ‘music video’, motion capture is used to give awkward life to singing, dancing, simulated bodies. Inspired by haunted-house animatronics and the experience of dancing alone to one’s personal ‘inner soundtrack’ — in this case, Billy Idol’s hit song “Eyes Without A Face” — these fragmented, polymorphous figures eerily evoke male adolescent sexual anxiety, fantasies of digital corporeality, and the body horror of the ‘uncanny valley’. By Sean Capone
Meet your single-celled neighbours – a microbial tour of a metropolis. Directed by Evan Luchkow.
