Borrowed from Altered Carbon, Needle Casting is a future technology that enables uploading and sending data to distant locations in the galaxy, transmitting the data at speeds greatly in excess of light speed. Working with Wendyl Harris, The Needlecast Rhapsody is a fantastical visualisation of how uploading of the human form might occur.
The soundscape is Cestoda from the Nondestructive Examination album by jjjacob. All rights reserved to jjjacob.
June 2023 – The Needlecast Rhapsody selected for the Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2023. It was showcased at the Ars Electronica centre in Linz Austria, and also at Deep Space 8K as part of Bodies, Data, Space. Then later The Needlecast Rhapsody will be part of the Animation Festival on Tour.
“Data, Bodies, Space shows an intriguing mix of different animation art practices, dealing with the “glitches” of our digitality-virtuality-reality condition. From nightmarish dystopian scenarios to speculative more-than-human ecologies, you are transported into a sensuous imaginary cyberspace, filled with hybrid beings, ambiguous heroes, data bodies and networked selves.”
Ars Electronica, 2023
