The Secret Type Garden is an immersive typographic poem which we created as a reaction to the typeface collection and visual language of type designer Celine Hurka.
The Secret Type Garden is an exploration of the relationship between typographic voice, storytelling and the nature of digital font formats. Typefaces are simultaneously pieces of fiction and tools. They are small entities of software – perhaps the most consumed pieces of digital technology of all time. Here, they transcend their utilitarian nature, escaping their day jobs in the misty wilderness. Visitors of the garden are invited to harvest specimens that they can bring home to their local hard drives.
2023
Story, code and landscape architecture – Studio Pointer
Typefaces – Celine Hurka
Gardening – Studio Pointer, Celine Hurka
Soundscape – Torus
Supported by Stimuleringsfonds
Variable Time is an open-source tool for working with typography in motion and states of transition. It is an ongoing personal exploration, driven by our fascination with variable font formats and their potential impact on the future of verbal and non-verbal communication. The Variable Time toolkit is designed to evolve in parallel with our ongoing research, continuously expanding with new experimental controls and features.
2023 - ongoing
The first version of Variable Time is developed in collaboration with type designer Celine Hurka
Typefaces – Celine Hurka, Jacob Wise
Supported by Stimuleringsfonds
Creating web architectures and voices for various practitioners and organisations.
Tranquility Machine is a meditation device from the future, - an interface between the forces of nature and human mind. It is a pop-up temple in which visitors are invited to join a weather-controlled sonic meditation practice.
At the center of Tranquility Machine spins a hanging mobile, which reflects and pushes rays of directional sound around the space, creating a nearly tangible, ASMR-like sonic experience. All parts of this mechanism, including mobile's rotation speed and pace, are controlled by local weather data in real-time.
commissioned by Floriade Festival
2022
Sound - Yota Morimoto
Drone footage - Boyd Rotgans
Curator - Ward Janssen
For the latest version of Planet of People by Julijonas Urbonas, exhibited at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale as a part of the Lithuanian Space Agency, we created a faster and more flexible version of the 3D scanner alongside with new generative visuals and astrophysical simulations.
The Lithuanian Space Agency (LSA) is an organisation that researches space architecture and gravitational aesthetics. The agency takes the radical and unique experiences of space to redefine who we are and what we can know and imagine. The LSA is founded by Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas.
commissioned by the Lithuanian Pavilion of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale
2020 - 2021
The modular 3D scanner is an ongoing independent project which is supported by Stimuleringfonds.
Photos - Aistė Valiūtė and Daumantas Plechavičius, Darius Petrulaitis
Video - Laurynas Skeisgiela
Modular 3D Scanner Toolkit is a custom built software that allows to capture various objects, creatures and spaces as 3D models in near real-time. The aim of the toolkit is to make it easier to combine views from multiple depth cameras into a seamless pointcloud and to enable further experiments with 3D scanning things in motion.
Supported by Stimuleringsfonds
We got asked to create a visual identity for the Lithuanian Space Agency, a.k.a. the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.
The Lithuanian Space Agency (LSA) is an organisation that researches space architecture and gravitational aesthetics. The agency takes the radical and unique experiences of space to redefine who we are and what we can know and imagine. The LSA is founded by Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas.
commissioned by the Lithuanian Pavilion of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale
2020 - ongoing
In collaboration with Joscha Steffens
Nexus Valley is a photo archive and an experimental web-game, which follows pro-gaming superstars in-between crucial matches over the course of several years.
Photography & Concept: Joscha Steffens
Platform Development & Design: Studio Pointer*
'Walking with Unimals is an ever-evolving digital ecosystem populated by fantastic creatures who live, die, and reproduce with the help of a deliberately undertrained GAN model. Consisting of multiple different universes and inhabited by crossbreeds of animated gifs found on the Internet, it is a world in which the evolution process is unpredictable and never-ending. Initially enclosed and inhabited by a specific family of creatures, the universes can be connected with cables which allow the unimals to migrate, meet foreign species as well as protect their own kinds from extinction by mating with their new encounters. Tamagotchi meets Hieronymus Bosch in this meditation on the digital image life cycle and evolution.
Commissioned by Cinekid Festival
Video: Jonathan Hielkema (Touchy Studios)
2018
We got asked to develop a 3D scanner application and 3 visual outputs for 'Planet of People', work by Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas. All 3 simulations feature of 3D scans of the visitors of the exhibition, made on the spot.
commissioned by Julijonas Urbonas
2018 - ongoing
Nature Documentaries and Matrix Soundtrack is an infinitely generated movie that consists of randomly matched footage from various nature documentaries and the original soundtrack of The Matrix trilogy.
2018
For an earlier iteration of 'Planet of People' we got asked to develop 3 generative astrophysical simulations that show different constellations of human bodies floating together in outer space.
commissioned by Julijonas Urbonas
2018
Media alchemy and software fiction.
We design interactions and look for unexplored potentials of new media.
us: Asya Sukhorukova (RU) & Jakob Schloetter (DE)
The Hague, The Netherlands
selected exhibitions, talks and features:
2023
Typographic Nights
Page Not Found, The Hague
The Sound of Text
Die Angewandte, Vienna
(Workshop)
Summer’s Gate
Quartair, The Hague
Organised together with Celine Hurka
Lithuanian Space Agency: Planet of People
Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius
(commissioned by Julijonas Urbonas)
2022
2021
Presentation about the Lithuanian Pavilion for Ornamenta 2024
ZKM, Karlsruhe
(talk)
Lithuanian Space Agency
17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice
(commissioned by Lithuanian Pavilion)
Guest Lecture
IMD department, KABK, The Hague
(talk)
2020
Planet of People
Collective, Edinburgh
(commissioned by Julijonas Urbonas)
Hoogtij
The Hague
(online edition)
Show and Tell 04
Special Special, New York
(feature)
The Wrong Biennale
Press Refresh Pavilion
(online edition)
2019
Cinekid Festival
Westergasfabriek , Amsterdam
Dutch Creativity Awards
Student Hotel, Amsterdam
2018
Planet of People
Vartai Gallery, Vilnius
(commissioned by Julijonas Urbonas)
Waiting for Another Coming
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
(commissioned by Julijonas Urbonas)