_Under An Alias_ is the big new fairytale of Nerdworking, a digital historical expression. This time our story takes place in the small German town of Weimar. Weimar is a meeting and creation point for eminent intellectuals of our times. This is the town where Goethe wrote his masterpieces, where the music of Franz Liszt could be heard. This is where the German Republic was founded in 1919, whose legacy was subsequently marred by the establishment of a Nazi concentration camp here in 1937. Weimar, a city that currently merges art and architecture in the Bauhaus university, has many untold stories. 

Although difficult, telling Weimar’s story was incredibly educational for an Istanbul-based group of artists. It gave an opportunity for Nerdworking to illustrate a story from another perspective. Dozens of people spent long hours immersing themselves the rich cultural background, while taking into consideration the opinions of previous researchers.

_Under An Alias_, created through the collaboration of international artists and working completely in cyberspace, made its debut as the main act of the Genius Loci Festival. _Under An Alias_ was exhibited from 10 to 12 August at the Fürstenhaus, Franz Liszt Conservatory, every night several times a night from 8 p.m. until the early hours. We decided that there could be nothing more appropriate, than projecting the analogy onto this iconic building. The initial section of this tribute to the legacy of Weimar is the spirit, then the muscles then the skin. The story was based on the linear history of the city.

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Producer: Nerdworking

Design and Art Direction: NOHlab (Candaş Şişman - Deniz Kader)

Motion Design and Animation Teams: Fehmican Gözüm, Gökalp Gönen, Saygın Soher, Sinan Büyükbaş, Ouchhh

Creative Director: Ferdi Alıcı

3D Artists & Designers: Çağlar Özen, Emre Önol, Ferdi Alıcı

2D Artists & Designers: Dilan Tanrıkulu Regal, Harun Kerem Köse, Yusuf Emre Kucur

Compositing: Ferdi Alıcı

Robotika

CG Supervisor: Coşku Özdemir

3D Artists & Designers : Davut Toy, Vikram Puttanna

Sound Design: Alp Coksoyluer, Giray Gürkal, Görkem Şen

Architectural 3D Modelling: Kerem Asfuroğlu

Storyboard Artist: İsmail Anıl Güzeliş

Documentation: Cansu Turan

Project Management: Nerdworking (Erdem Dilbaz)

Nerdworking (TR) is an Istanbul-based art & science network founded in 2009 to research and to develop unique software and hardware for artistic, commercial, experimental interactive media works for the public space, fairs and performing arts. Nerdworking has many multidisciplinary artists, illustrators, designers, real-time animation designers, coders and mechatronics, robotics and electronics professionals. The core team’s aim is to create new way to experience man-machine codes.