Silica-esc
SILICA-ESC is a generative movie that portrays possible computing platform for the future. The story takes place in Singapore, where the decision about massive production of the new computing system called Silica-esc is about to be made. SILICA-ESC is an intelligent computational entity, "the central tree of our consciousness" that can converse to its users and respond to any of their queries. The protagonists challenge the emerging supercomputer with issues like class segregations, rules of art making, and spirituality. They believe that such questions will test the limits of the computational intelligence. But SILICA-ESC responds with ease by emitting audio, visual and scent, and mesmerizing its first public users.
The movie is created by writing code and designing a software environment, which can generate high number of variations and visual material in short periods of time. All the visual material is generated by working with computer language Processing.
Silica-Esc from Vladimir Todorovic on Vimeo.
direction and editing by: Vladimir Todorović
script by: Vladimir Todorović
(by remixing works of: Jean Luc Godard(Weekend), Velimir Khlebnikov (Radio of the Future), Fyodor Dostoyevsky(Notes from the Underground), and Caspar David Friedrich.)
music by: Brian O'Reilly
colourist: Jac Min
type and design: Roy Wang
Languages: Japanese, French, and German
Duration: 7:41
Format: prores HD 1920:1080, HD-Cam
THANKS to:
Ben Fry and Casey Reas, creators of Processing,
Processing community,
Karsten Schmidt, creator of toxiclibs,
Andreas Schlegel, creator of controlP5,
Mark Chadwick, creator of p5sunflow,
Damien Di Fede, creator of minim
Partially supported by:
RG1(RCC10/ADM/2009) grant.
Translation by:
Susanne Wurmnest, Gilles Massot and Maho Saito.
produced by Vladimir Todorović, 2010.
awards: Special Mention, Computer Art category, International competition Visions from the Future 2010, Iridescent Worlds, Torino, Japan Media Arts Festival, Art Division Jury Recommended Work, 2011
screenings: Backup Festival, 18th Curtas Vila do Conde, FAD - Festival de Arte Digital 2010, Brazil, Les Instants Video Numerique et Poetique 23th Edition, Screengrab, Videomedeja, Japan Media Arts Festival, Videoformes, 26th International Video and Digital Culture Festival, FILE2011, Code warriors: decade of processing, onedotzero, Adventures in Motion, International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media, Athens...