jo lawrence

Animated films of puppets & objects. Commissions include Ch 4, Animate, Max Reinhardt for Tate Late. Residency 2008 at V&A. Current work Datacosm for Collusion

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Chip Colquhoun as one of the A.I. engineers/ puppeteers beneath the stage. Organising seed data ready for planting in the Datacosm. incollusion cambridge_consultants @CambSchoolofArt… https://t.co/rqq2gz9Yte

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Datacosm would ideally be screened at a huge scale so that the data engineers would appear at life size. Just submitted an application for Datacosm to Currents New Media festival.Thanks… https://t.co/fcTHmbCnFO

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jolawrence_datacosm's video https://t.co/3goHZlmVlE

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Thanks to brilliant animator and ARU student Diego M Celestino who has both edited and worked on the Utopian picnic scene. Datacosm now has blue giant wafers, (a tricky feat given the… https://t.co/aEglWcriRw

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Distorted landscape of another orchard scene: a test variation, potentially available for A.I.’s selection of footage. This is an in-between ‘thinking’ stage, before the music genre is… https://t.co/8tzE8Ewtmj

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4th ‘atmosphere’ test for orchard scenes. Ragtime scenes throughout the film will be monochrome. incollusion cambridge_consultants @CambSchoolofArt mariefortune_ @GregArundell… https://t.co/0Owjprr7SA

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Another test version of the orchard scene. For selection by A.I. in response to a specific music genre ( probably classical ) Aiming for a range of contrasting visual qualities to… https://t.co/nHBcv2h22h

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Each version of the orchard scene will reflect the genre selected by A.I. This still is another test - at a rough stage with placeholding shapes.incollusion @CambSchoolofArt… https://t.co/YO8P76HvT3

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Still of Initial test of animated rotating trees in the orchard. One of 4 variations, each version will correspond with a music genre for selection by A.I. The ‘fruit’ (data cubes) will be… https://t.co/a9ECi0223M

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Data food for the Data-eaters is produced from grating blocks of blue data cubes. incollusion cambridge_consultants @CambSchoolofArt mariefortune_ @GregArundell #shortfilms #shortfilm… https://t.co/A1iidHIQSj

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A selection of Data-eaters. Consumers of processed data appear queueing for data food in the Datacosm. The puppets are constructed in various ways, some are made from milk cartons… https://t.co/7Ab5gc8XEa

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In the main narrative this data-eating puppet is destabilised by ingesting corrupted data. incollusion cambridge_consultants @CambSchoolofArt mariefortune_ @GregArundell… https://t.co/yFWtdGdrix

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Data handling tools: One of several scoops and spoons. Used in various scenes from harvesting data and data feeding.
incollusion cambridge_consultants @CambSchoolofArt mariefortune_… https://t.co/ydur4XCJTw

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Blue man in the carnival scene about to be animated incollusion cambridge_consultants @CambSchoolofArt mariefortune_ @GregArundell #stopmotionanimation #animation #puppetryarts #puppetry… https://t.co/D0asgMvnga

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In the utopian picnic scene the puppeteers are joined by real data scientists Monty Barlow, Dominic Vergine and Sally Epstein. Anticipating a potentially harmonious future relationship… https://t.co/AXyIe6n248

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This scene is a utopian picnic where humans are provided for by artificial intelligence. Below the puppet stage the puppeteers are fed giant wafers. The actual puppeteers Greg Arundell… https://t.co/aT6w2DzjRh

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One of four endings to the main narrative with contrasting outcomes to our relationship to technology. This scene is a utopian picnic where humans are provided for by artificial… https://t.co/a2uZH8Qv00

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This scene is one four branching narratives. This is the utopian outcome where an empathetic Artificial Intelligence anticipates humans data needs and feeds the puppeteers(data… https://t.co/nZyrpqAcXo

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In this scene artificial intelligence takes over in one of four branching narratives at the end of the main story. Above the stage A.I. claims dominance over humans. It is unclear whether… https://t.co/zzzLsJFsqf