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Who doesn’t dream of immersing themselves in a comic book?
In 1985, “Take On Me” by A-ha turned that fantasy into cinematic history — merging live action and hand-drawn animation through more than 3,000 rotoscoped frames. The result was a love story that crossed dimensions, blurring the line between imagination and reality.
💡 Directed by Steve Barron and animated by Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger, it wasn’t just a music video — it was an emotional portal. A place where pixels, paper, and human feeling met for the first time.
🌐 Today, the metaverse carries that same promise.
Beyond avatars and virtual spaces, it invites us to reimagine what it means to feel inside a story — to step through the screen, just like in that unforgettable moment when art reached out and held a hand from another world.
⚡️ The tools have changed — from graphite to GPUs — but the essence remains: to make emotion visible.
#VFXRio #TakeOnMe #Metaverse #DigitalEmotion #Rotoscoping #MusicVideoArt #VFXHistory #VisualStorytelling #ImmersiveMedia #InnovationInArt #FromSketchToScreen #VisualAlchemy
👏🏼👏🏼Originally shared via @gungurartsbarcelona — preparing my body for the Karanas exam with @vithya_arasu, and my hand and wrist to illustrate them 😌
#framebyframeillustration #movingsilhouette #danceillustration #Karanas #indianclassicaldance #motionstudy
• @stanleykubrick #2001ASpaceOdyssey production designer Anthony Masters with artist Liz Moore’s clay sculpture of the ‘Star Child,’ soon to become one of the most recognisable symbols of the movie.
Les Vampires (1915)🦇
#lesvampires #1915cinema #silentfilm #frenchcinema #LouisFeuillade #classichorror #vampiresonscreen #silentera #vintagehorror #FilmHistory #IconicCinema #frenchsilentfilm #IrmaVep #GothicCinema #darkaesthetic #earlycinema #silentmovieera #VampireLegends #horrorhistory #cultcinema
“My name is Orson Welles”, l’exposition : J - 10 ! ⏲️
✒️My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear on stage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
Posted by @cinemathequefr
Toutes les facettes d’Orson Welles, révélées dès le 8 octobre prochain.
Tenez-vous prêts !
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THINK! We love sharing pictures of holidays, celebrations, and private moments with each other. It’s a beautiful way to connect.
But once those photos are online, they live there forever visible worldwide, often beyond our control. The story of Ella shows how this can lead to consequences we never imagined.
That’s why we’re all called to act. Strengthening media literacy, protecting our personal data, and being mindful about security can help us avoid harm before it happens.
When it comes to sensitive data, extra care isn’t optional. It’s essential.
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Media: TMobilePL
The legendary Ralph McQuarrie‘s original concept art for the Mos Eisley cantina on Tatooine brought to life. #starwars #kennerstarwars #vintagestarwars #StarWarsRetroCollection #starwarsactionfigurephotography #ralphmcquarrie #starwarsconceptart #AI #aivideo #AiVideos #klingai powered by AI
🌙 AI Chronicles – Night Show Talk
Same genotype, different phenotype — Divine Freeman & Celestia Borealis turn midnight into a glitch in reality. ⚡🖤
The Reveal📸 audio on - powered by AI.
A showcase of AI-driven works by A.I. W4rh0l that felt as disruptive as they were nostalgic — as if the future of creativity had just stepped out of a time machine.
📸 “In a city that never sleeps, the future of art is about to wake up.”
Is AI changing the essence of photography or redefining it for a new era?
For over four decades, Nick Knight has been at the forefront of image-making, pushing beyond the limits of the camera and exploring new possibilities in film, AI, and virtual realities.
Here, Knight offers his perspective on the controversies surrounding generative AI and its use as a tool for artistic creation. He argues that those who care deeply about art, culture, and humanity should play a central role in shaping its future.
Discover thought-provoking and inspiring photography at our Photography Centre in V&A South Kensington. @vamuseum
The Golden Record Cover - NASA Science
The Voyager Golden Records are 12-inch, gold-plated phonograph records attached to the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, launched in 1977 to carry a “time capsule” of sounds and images from Earth into deep space for extraterrestrial civilizations to discover. Chaired by Carl Sagan, a committee selected a diverse collection of sights and sounds, including music, natural sounds, and greetings in 55 languages, to portray the diversity of life and culture on our planet. The records’ covers provide instructions on how to play them and depict a map to Earth, using physical constants as a reference for extraterrestrials. #carlsagan #universe #goldenrecord #voyager #music #sounds #earth #classicalmusic credit akos papp @akospapp42
Engineering can lead to art.
Buoyant Choreographies: Harmonies of Light, Sound, and Human Connection by @dennishongrobot debuts at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation in Atlanta.
This interactive installation brings buoyant bipedal robots to life—helium balloons with articulated legs that float and play in the exhibition space. Visitors are invited to guide their movements, lights, and expressions through touch, airflow, or gamepads, creating a playful and ever-changing dialogue between people and machines.
A poetic mix of robotics, creativity, and human connection.
#new_media_art #kineticart #robotics
O quão espesso é o presente?
Se o passado é apenas uma sombra platônica e o futuro ainda não existe, tudo o que nos resta é fabular.
E é exatamente isso que vamos fazer juntos no seminário “Fabulações Algorítmicas – Processos Criativos, Democratização e Linguagem na Era da IA”: pensar, criar e conversar sobre como a inteligência artificial está transformando a cultura, a linguagem e a própria noção de autoria.
📅 05 de setembro de 2025, às 15h30 (Horário de Brasília)
📺 Canal da Biblioteca Nacional no YouTube
Com Liana Brazil (SuperUber), referência internacional em experiências criativas, e mediação de Matteo Moriconi (VFXRio / IMPA-Visgraf).
✨ Venha fabular conosco. @lianabrazil @matteo_moriconi @superuber @bibliotecanacional.br
Call to action: @bibliotecanacional.br A relação entre cultura e a Inteligência Artificial (IA) será o tema do evento online “Fabulações Algorítmicas – Processos Criativos, Democratização e Linguagem na Era da IA”, no dia 5 de setembro, a partir das 15h30. Promovido pela Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (FBN) — vinculada ao Ministério da Cultura (MinC) — o evento terá como palestrantes a sócia, fundadora e diretora criativa da agência SuperUber, Liana Brazil, e o tecnologista, diretor e cofundador do festival VFXRio. A transmissão ao vivo poderá ser acessada no canal do YouTube da FBN (@fundacaobibliotecanacional ).
A apresentação de Liana Brazil, com o título “IA transforma a autoria e a coautoria artística”, terá duração de 10 a 15 minutos. Com o mesmo tempo de duração, a apresentação de Matteo Moriconi terá o título “Filosofia, ciência, arte, história, cultura: o futuro convergente” Após as apresentações, haverá um bate-papo com o público com duração de 20 minutos.
Saiba mais no link: www.gov.br/bn/pt-br/central-de-conteudos/eventos/bn-convida-fabulacoes-algoritmicas-processos-cri... @lianabrazil @superuber @bibliotecanacional.br @matteo_moriconi
Parallels in Cinema 🎬📽️
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RIPTIDE (1934)
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#manifesto by Brad Necyk “The artist is the distant early warning system of culture,” McLuhan once wrote—decades before algorithms dreamed. Today, as AI reshapes the fabric of reality, the artist listens at the edge. We are not here to tame the machine, but to feel it, question it, and speak the unspeakable truths it stirs. While others build for speed, profit, or control, the artist moves slowly—tuning into the tremors beneath. We are the radar, the mirror, the mythmakers of a future not yet born. This is not just about art. It’s about seeing. Sensing. And daring to say: Here is what’s coming. #awe #ai #tech #poetry
The most carioca movie of Alfred Hitchcock isn’t The Man Who Knew Too Much, but Notorious—after all, what could be more Rio than an Englishwoman entangled in samba, spies, and the blurred line between romance and conspiracy
In the 1940s, Rio de Janeiro appeared in Notorious (1946), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film is set in Brazil and stars Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.
Despite the beautiful images of Rio, the movie was actually shot in the United States. Hitchcock preferred working in a studio, so he sent William Dorfman, the second-unit director, to Rio to capture exterior shots. These images were later superimposed onto scenes with the actors.
The film features stunning views of Copacabana, Cinelândia, Glória, Sugarloaf Mountain, Guanabara Bay, and the Theatro Municipal — a faithful portrayal of the city at the time, free of stereotypes.
Notorious is a classic Hitchcock thriller. The plot follows Alicia (Bergman), the daughter of a Nazi spy who, in an attempt to redeem her family’s name, is recruited by the U.S. government to infiltrate a group of ex-Nazis living in Brazil after World War II.
The movie was nominated for two Oscars — Best Supporting Actor (Claude Rains) and Best Original Screenplay (Ben Hecht) — and also competed for the Palme d’Or at the very first Cannes Film Festival.
One fun fact: Hitchcock cleverly bypassed the strict Hays Code, which banned kisses lasting more than three seconds. In a famous scene, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman kiss for more than two minutes, breaking the kiss every three seconds to get around the rule. #movies #film #cinema #classicmovies #1940s #riodejaneiro #carioca #copacabana #hollywood #hitchcock #funfacts #vintage
Genie 3 can take a single image and turn it into a 3D world you can walk around in, like stepping inside The Death of Socrates or Nighthawks. No NeRF, no 3D mesh, and it beats anything else in image-to-3D tech.
Built by Google DeepMind, it works in real time, remembers what it creates, and adapts instantly to changes.
This might be the closest glimpse we’ve had to a real-life holodeck.
🎥: Aleksander Holynski
💫 • @impa_oficial 🗣️“A nossa motivação é a inovação”, afirmou o pesquisador do IMPA Luiz Velho sobre o lançamento do livro
“Realidade Expandida: novas mídias e IA”, nesta quinta-feira (7), no Rio de Janeiro.📖
Em formato físico e digital, o livro aborda avanços em pesquisas em novas tecnologias e mídias, como metaversos, realidade expandida, IA e agentes virtuais.
Em 359 páginas, o livro promove experiências interativas de realidade aumentada, realidade virtual nos formatos físico e digital.
📍O lançamento ocorre nesta quinta-feira (7), às 19h, no auditório Alta Botafogo (Rua Voluntário da Pátria, 423).
🔗Saiba mais no site e inscreva-se para o lançamento.
Exposição – Quero Ser Uma Máquina
por AI. W4rhol
Defina VFXRio LunaPark Metaverso Experience: Da Página de Histórias em Quadrinhos para a Realidade Virtual criado por Matteo Moriconi. Este ensaio apresenta as ideias e a semiótica por trás desse mundo virtual. Moriconi recorre a influências que vão de Warhol a Roy Lichtenstein, do escritor de ficção científica Stanislaw Lem ao filme A Origem, de Giorgio Vasari a Jean-Paul Sartre, para explorar a invenzione, conceito por trás de seu novo metaverso, povoado de obras de arte e estruturas que ele criou por meio da plataforma de A.I. Midjourney.
Exposição – Quero ser uma máquina – A.I. W4rhol
VFXRIO LIVE – ENSAIOS
“Somos chamados a ser os arquitetos do futuro, não suas vítimas.”
Buckminster Fuller
Leia o ensaio do VFXRio dividivo em três partes abordando a história dos metaversos. A Parte 1 examina os metaversos na história da arte e do pensamento. A Parte 2 analisa como a cultura popular atraiu públicos de fora do campo do entretenimento e como e por que atraiu também a ciência – particularmente a realidade virtual (VR) e a inteligência artificial (AI). A Parte 3 analisa a humanização dos avatares, versões virtuais de nós mesmos.
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