Eric Schockmel
artist & designer
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CIRCUIT I (SYSCAPES) (2011) is an installation for 9 screens, currently on display at MUDAM in the exhibition I've Dreamt About. It displays a core operator creating, modifying, destroying and recycling habitats in a synthetic space of digital biology. Commissioned by the MUDAM Collection and loosely based on the 2008 work Syscapes # ELO for the exhibtion Inner Exiles - Outer Limits.
THE GREAT WESTERN SINGULARITY (2010) 3D animated short in High Defintion. Commissioned by jotta.com for Intel's REMASTERED series on art history masterpieces. A contemporary reinterpretation of JMW Turner's painting "Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway". This short animation examines the concept of the Technological Singularity, the point in human progress after which predictions become increasingly difficult to formulate. Industrialization and computational innovation are re-imagined in a minimalist environment, drawing from video game and runtime aesthetics. 3'38" Read a complete case-study on the Watergun website. Making-of here.
OCCUPATION: MOVEMENTS II & III (SYSCAPE # 4) (2010) 3D animated short in High Defintion. Continuation of the Syscapes research project in a systemic laboratory space. Deals with an ecological narrative, visually reminiscent of video game design and science-fiction. 6'30"
THE ELEPHANT DANCE (2010) Lead animation, production design and compositing on a music video for Watergun Films, commissioned by Trinity Productions and directed by Lee Cavaliere. Animation assisstant: Nassrin Nasser; Editor: Rafael Pavon; The Elephant Dance EP from Formula features the MC's Aynzli Jones, Dabbla, Cobes and Rebel MC aka Congo Natty. 3'08" Making-of here.
OCCUPATION: MOVEMENT I (SYSCAPE # 4) (2009) 3D animated short in High Defintion. Continuation of the Syscapes research project. Application and expansion of a visual systemic language to a real-world conflict situation. 7'45"
KERNEL TOURIST (2009 - 2010) Animation for a semi-permanent projection of 2 x 10.6 meters commissioned by Carré Rotondes / Exit07 exhibition centre and venue in Luxembourg City. Atmospheric environment with aesthetics drawing from various science-fiction and videogame influences. 4'00" (loop)
SYSCAPES # INTERLUDE (2008) A motion graphics short film which illustrates the outcome of a body of research focusing on experimental 3D animation. It combines narrative metaphors with diagrammatic synthesis in order to represent a spatio-analytical take on political power and social hierarchies. 22'23"
SYSCAPES # PRELUDE (2007) 3D animated short exploring notions of geomorphology, cartography, contemporary urbanism, and the scale of human impact on topography. The project attempts to achieve a contemplative point of view through immersive cinematics. 9'30"
SYSCAPES (2007-present) /'sIskeIps/ An open-ended work, consisting of modular sequences, permitting compositional rearrangements and conceptual sequencing depending on in-situ conditions. The Syscapes are 'issue-spaces' expressively depicting the underlying dynamics of contemporary phenomena, and ranging from geopolitical stances to envorionmental change. Inspired by the theory of systems, the form and content of these sequences occupy a shifting middle ground within the spectrum between infographics on one hand, and symbolic metaphor on the other.
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