You may have noticed our new online Gallery. It’s a place where creative professionals can showcase their portfolio of work, gain exposure, build their network, find collaborators, and become eligible for funding opportunities like The Studio. It’s also a place where fans of cutting edge creative work can discover new artists and inspiring projects. Each week we’ll be selecting a few of our favorites and bringing you the best of what The Creators Project community has to offer. To have your work featured, submit your tech-powered projects to the Gallery.

Trent Brooks: Noise Ink
Noise Ink is an interactive animation system built in Processing that responds to body movement captured via a Kinect camera—but what it really is, is a good excuse to dance like an idiot with abandon, all in the name of art, of course. The Kinect records a passerby’s movements, which affect the optical flow and perlin noise algorithms in the custom software, creating fiery ink splash visuals on a projection screen and triggering generative sounds. Originally constructed for the NZ Post of the Auckland Arts Festival, the whimsical interactive project brought complete strangers together in play, translating their awkward dance moves into technicolor flames.

adNAU: Immersive Cocoon
What does the future of computing interaction look like? Well, if you were to believe this spec from design collective Nau, it will evolve into the form of a glistening black orb, enticing in its silky mystery and enveloping, cocoon-like structure. Based on a concept study by product designer Tino Schaedler, The Immersive Cocoon presents a vision of interface design that is both alluring and terrifying in its engulfing design. The spec treaser for their film 2011 was inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and masterfully composited using CG animation and live action footage shot against green screens. They even got original Space Odyssey actor Keir Dullea to make an appearance. Now if that’s not a strong endorsement for this sci-fi vision of interface design, we don’t know what is.

Vincent Viriot: “How Could You Do It” music video
Parisian director and motion graphics designer Vincent Viriot is quite prolific and has a number of truly stunning graphics designs and videos on his Gallery profile. This one, a music video for the track “How Could You Do It” by French singer Medi was among our favorites. Viriot strikes a playful mood slightly reminiscent of Cee Lo’s text-driven video for “F*ck You”, featuring typographical 3D animations, stars, and ribbons that swirl around the frame as Medi bops in and out of dance parties, river boats and cobblestone streets. For a song that despairs about a girl who chose the other guy, the video is drenched in sunny, retro vibes that make us wonder just how down and out Medi really is.