EcoSurreal: Fading Echoes of the Anthropocene
Index
12/14
Year
2023
Role
Motion Designer & Creative Technologist
Read
1 min
184 wordsMedia
6 items
Stack
Generative Video · TouchDesigner · Climate Art · Motion Graphics · Sound Design
A generative video piece confronting ecological collapse through a digital danse macabre — layering real-time visuals, manipulated broadcast audio, and Thomas Bangalter's 'Sangria' into a haunting meditation on the Anthropocene.
Concept & Vision
EcoSurreal stages a digital danse macabre at the end of the natural world. The piece reframes climate catastrophe not as distant data, but as visceral, present-tense spectacle — fragmented broadcast footage collides with generative visuals, dissolving the boundary between news reportage and ecological elegy.
Process & Tools
Built in TouchDesigner with real-time generative compositing, layering manipulated Fox News climate segments over procedural particle systems and feedback loops. Sound design in Audition weaves field recordings with Thomas Bangalter's 'Sangria' (Climax, 2018), creating a score that oscillates between dread and beauty. Final assembly in Premiere Pro.
Context & Intent
The title draws from the geological epoch we inhabit — the Anthropocene — where human activity is the dominant influence on climate and environment. EcoSurreal refuses the comforting distance of documentary; instead it immerses the viewer in a surrealist confrontation with ecological grief, asking what remains when the natural world fades to signal noise.
Tools Used
Design · 2024