Alysse Stepanian 
Los Angeles. USA
http://alyssestepanian.com

Project: MemoryoftheUniverseSyria Planum: For Water for O

As more humans and other animals are displaced due to climate change and drought, petropolitical wars will be overshadowed by urgent needs such as access to fresh water. Syria Planum: For Water for Oil" is the first edition of #MemoryoftheUniverse, a work of speculative fiction combined with current real-life global events. This work covers difficult intersectional social and political issues in a posthuman world. Some subjects explored are the Anthropocene, petropolitical and water wars, nationalism, colonialism, politics and ethics in science and technology, drones and “militainment”, terrorism, refugees, and exploitation of humans and other animals. Historically, the bodies and reproductive organs of women and cows have been subjugated in patriarchal societies. The protagonist in this work is half-human, half-cow. She wanders the desolate Martian landscape, including the Syria Planum, and bears witness to the destructive behavior of humans. As the world looks away from crimes that are unmet with restitution, their aftermaths resonate in the dark recesses of our minds and metaphorically, continue to live in the memory of the universe, eternally recurring, until we find ways to change our consciousness and current state of affairs.

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Bob Bicknell-Knight
London. United Kingdom

Project: Everything Bad is Good for You

A work that considers the highs and lows of escapism within the video game community using water as a continuously evolving metaphor.

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Thanut Rujitanont
Bangkok. Thailand

Project: TEUN

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Sami Natsheh
Spain

Project: Up in the Sky 	   

Mezclando imagen real y animación tradicional, se cuenta una pequeña historia de esperanza.

“Cabeza Voladora” es el nombre del equipo encabezado por Arly Jones y Sami Natsheh

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Simón García-Miñaúr 
San Francisco. USA

Project: An unexpected visit 	   

An unexpected visit is a short melodramatic and comic video piece about the yearning for a vanishing love. In a split screen format, the protagonist's world is shattered by an encounter with a former lover. The visible chroma key character embodies the invisible, it is what is not supposed to be seen; but its emotional insight is universal. In the end, we all see what we want to see and create particular realities we feel comfortable living in.

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Tina Willgren
Stockholm. Sweden


Project: Arrived

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Olga Guse
Dresden. Germany

Project: Children of the War

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Richard Jochum
New York. U.S.A. 

Project: Crossword Project

The Crossword Project is a 4 minute video animation featuring an animated crossword puzzle with questions, which cannot be answered easily. The Crossword Project, which was created in Cinema 4D (2015), arose from the artist's fascination with crossword puzzles and the knowledge generated through them, which tends to be prepackaged and memorable. The Crossword Project goes beyond that and will be based on questions that make us pause and think.

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Terry Trickett
London. United Kingdom
https://youtu.be/OWwgWj_hROE

Project: CITIRAMA

In Citirama, Terry Trickett has produced a series of animations which take flight into a realm of fantasy, where the rhythms of music join the patterns of architecture to celebrate the qualities of an exceptional building - the 'cheesegrater' in the City of London. Trickett sees Citirama as an experimental performance which reveals a new type of relationship between music and architecture - no longer frozen but, instead, constantly moving and inventive.

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