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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Pile
Toby Auberg
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Water then food. Agriculture then industry. Old then new. Critical then extra. Simple to complex. Concrete to abstract. Dirt to clouds. Real to unreal.
Artist statement: Pile is a CG animated film that attempts to visually map an intuitive worldview, underpinned by an elusive composite of orders, such as the hierarchy of needs, history, economic stratification, and the global supply chain. This compounded worldview is visualized as a vertical settlement made of rooms or modules that each represent a facet of human activity and the infrastructure that modern life depends on. The trajectory of material progression and detachment from reality within the film world reinforce a series of contrasts that often overlap in our real world, such as between old and new, critical and superfluous, simple and complex, concrete and abstract, real and unreal.
Artist statement: Pile is a CG animated film that attempts to visually map an intuitive worldview, underpinned by an elusive composite of orders, such as the hierarchy of needs, history, economic stratification, and the global supply chain. This compounded worldview is visualized as a vertical settlement made of rooms or modules that each represent a facet of human activity and the infrastructure that modern life depends on. The trajectory of material progression and detachment from reality within the film world reinforce a series of contrasts that often overlap in our real world, such as between old and new, critical and superfluous, simple and complex, concrete and abstract, real and unreal.
Animation: Toby Auberg
Sound engineer: Ben Goodall
Sound editor: Ben Goodall
Mix: Ben Goodall
Soundtrack: Ben Goodall
Sound engineer: Ben Goodall
Sound editor: Ben Goodall
Mix: Ben Goodall
Soundtrack: Ben Goodall
Toby Auberg (SE) is a London based 3D visual artist and animator, who is really into sensory overload, abstract characters, and virtual worlds, and sometimes dabbles in political themes. He started out working in film in Los Angeles, moved to Sweden to study Motion Graphics at Hyper Island, and studied Experimental Animation at the Royal College of Art in London. He worked at the award-winning creative studio DBLG before going freelance in 2015 and is a founding member of the not-for-profit shared workspace Fudio Collective. Animated shorts filmography: Seratox (2016), Causims (2018), Pile (2019).