GROTESK.GROUP TIMESTAMP: 25/10/24CONTACT AND LEGAL SH*T
‘USERS WITH A COMMON INTEREST IN DATA’  (FOR THE LATEST UPDATE REQUEST OR SLIDE)NETWORKS:


NEW BALANCE ‘RUN YOUR WAY’



VISUALS BASED ON DATA EXTRACTED FROM THE BERLIN MARATHON ‘24.


FORE- AND BACKGROUND SEPERATION BASED ON DEPTH DATA AND LONG- AND LAT- DATA FROM THE BERLIN MARATHON AS BASIS FOR DATA-VIS..


‘PEARL’



VISUALS BASED ON A CUSTOM DATASET TRAINED ON STILLS FROM THE THERMAL CAMERA USED IN PRODUCTION. COMBINED WITH MOTION DESIGN AND NODE-BASED ABSTRACTION / TD.


THE SHORTFILM TELLS THE STORY OF BLACK PEARL. THROUGH A SYMBIOSIS OF MODERN AND ABSTRACT STORYTELLING, WE CREATE A MIX OF A CINEMATIC, DOCUMENTARY-LIKE NARRATIVE THAT ATTEMPTS TO PORTRAY HER LIFE STORY. THE CORE OF THE STORY IS A DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY CONSISTING OF ELEMENTS OF MODERN BALLET, CONTEMPORARY AND VOGUE. EMOTIONS PORTRAYED WILL BE INTENSIFIED BY A VARIETY OF VISUAL TOOLS. A FILM BY ALEXANDER NOREK AND PEOPLEGRAPHER.


‘WZF/MAYBACH’



MUSIC VIDEO PRODUCED AND BASED ON THE IDEA OF CALCULATED DEPTH AND HEATMAPS.



WZF+MAYBACH BY ODDWORLD+SOULY DIRECTED BY GROTESK.GROUP+FLORIAN CHRISTOPHERDIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY PATRICK PICHLERPRODUCED BY STINK FILMSEXECUTIVE PRODUCER FLORIAN HÜLBIGSET MANAGER PAULA OTTENPRODUCTION ASSISTANT MIRIAM BARNERPOST-PRODUCER NELLY SELCHODATA LEAD HARALD SCHAACKVFX DENIS SOKOLOWSKI+TIM HUNKEMÖLLEREDITOR YANNICK NIXDORFSOUND MIX TRO1ST AC VINCENT RIEDIGERPRODUCTION DESIGN & STYLING ANNIKA LIESENCASTING SOLO EFECTIVO/NIHAL ÜNSALSTARRING 

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‘LA BATTERIA’ -  DJ GIGOLA



MUSIC VIDEO BASED ON FOUND FOOTAGE FROM YOUTUBE’S DEEPEND.


FACESWAPPING BASED ON THE INSWAPPER-APPROACH AND A DEEPDIVE INTO THE EARLY YEARS OF YOUTUBE AS A BASE FOR DJ GIGOLA’S MULTI-PERSON PRESENTATION. 


LAB



A CESSPOOL-LIKE ENVIROMENT THAT WE USE FOR TEST AND EXPERIMENTS THAT FRUIT IN VISUALS.


A QUESTIONABLE COLLECTION OF TECHNIQUES, FILES AND COMBINED TOOLS OF THE GROTESK.GROUP THAT SERVES AS A PUBLICLY VIEWABLE "POOL" OF AUDIO-VISUAL OUTPUT. POTENTIAL SOURCE OF INSPIRATION.

SEE THE WHOLE LAB OVER AT ARE.NA <3


SCANDINAVIAN BIOLABS



A TVC WITH OBJECT AND BLOB DETECTION INFUSED VISUALS.

TRAINABLE BAG-OF-FREEBIES SETS NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART FOR REAL-TIME OBJECT DETECTORS IN HAIR GROWTH AND SKIN CARE.


ANTIPAPER/01



GAN-DRIVEN VISUALIZATION BASED ON THE INTERVIEW WITH ARTCOLLECTOR RUDOLF ZWIRNER.

TEXT SNIPPETS USED AS PROMPT-TEMPLATE FOR VQGAN AND PRINCESS TO EXTEND THE WRITTEN NARRATIVE BY INCLUDING TXT2IMG.


OTTOLINGER



OBJECT DETECTION AND GENERATED HEATMAPS BASED ON MOVEMENT.


A VISUALISATION OF A OBSERVED RUNWAY IN REFERENCE TO THE TRACKING OF OUR DAILY LIVES AND ENDLESS RECORDINGS OF PERSONAL DATA FOR THE CURRENT COLLECTION OF OTTOLINGER’S WORK SHOWN IN PARIS IN 2023.


BILDER
BUCH



IMAGE GENERATION, ANIMATION, ABSTRACTION AND WEIRD OBJECT DETECTION.


VISUAL OVERLOAD INSPIRED BY (CURSED) MEME-CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY CLOSE TO THE CURRENT ZEITGEIST. BROKEN DATASETS, DEEPFAKES AND OBJECTDETECTION AS A REFERENCE TO SOCIAL FEARS AND TECHNICAL POSSIBILITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF OVERDOSED SOCIAL MEDIA.






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EMILIO  - STRAWBERRY EYES



MUSIC VIDEO BASED ON POST-ANIMATION OF GENERATED DATA.


PSYCHEDELIC VISUALS BASED ON PROMPTS TAKEN FROM THE LYRICS IN COMBINATION WITH POST-ANIMATION TECHNIQUES USED TO CREATE THE MORPHS FROM STILL TO STILL. GENERATED  FOR 4K / 50FPS OUTPUT TO ENSURE ASSET-CREATION AND EXPORT OF FRAMEGRABS.