Darren Slater (DSM)

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – INTERATOR
Electronic Language International Festival

Trip Portal – United Kingdom

Portal Trip is a captivating fusion of original music and Darren Slater’s AI-generated animations, transporting viewers on a surreal journey through ever-shifting dimensions. As abstract portals open and dissolve into fluid landscapes, the hypnotic visuals synchronize with Darren’s immersive soundscapes, creating an audiovisual experience that feels like entering another reality. A mesmerizing blend of movement and sound, this video invites viewers to lose themselves in its dreamlike, otherworldly depths.

BIO

Darren Slater is a musician and amateur visual artist based in the UK. He composes cinematic soundtracks in ambient and techno-house styles with sci-fi inspiration, using attribute-free loops and sound effects. He uses Krea AI Animator to bring AI-generated images to life, creating immersive experiences. He also works as a traditional artist, painting fantasy worlds with brushes and pigments.

XENO: UNDERTOW

Hsujing

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Arte e Tecnologia – Videoart
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica

XENO: UNDERTOW – China / England

XENO: UNDERTOW is an experimental short film that employs stream-of-consciousness narration and AI-generated surreal visual art to explore the identity struggles and inner turmoil of cross-cultural migrants in mainstream society. Through metaphor, the film depicts a whale forcibly displaced from the boundless azure sea, cast into a desert of shifting sands. This imagery symbolizes the challenges cultural migrants face in adapting to dominant cultures and the profound sense of identity loss.

BIO

Hsujing is a contemporary artist and digital artist & director. His primary research focuses on the integration of technology and art, as well as speculative creative outputs. He is skilled in combining diverse techniques for artistic creation. His works blend elements of classicism with science fiction, not only envisioning future landscapes but also revealing persistent realities.

AI Created a Sci-Fi World You Won’t Believe!

Cornelis Clement

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Shorts Films AI
Electronic Language International Festival

AI Created a Sci-Fi World You Won’t Believe! – Germany

AI Created a Sci-Fi World You Won’t Believe! is a science fiction universe generated by artificial intelligence. Custom-created images for this world were brought to life with motion and an original soundtrack, resulting in an immersive experience. The work invites the audi ence to explore breathtaking alien landscapes, futuristic cities, and cosmic phenomena reminiscent of Dune and No Man’s Sky. This AI-generated video transports viewers into a realm of visual marvels and hypnotic atmospheres.

BIO

Cornelis is a Berlin-based artist specializing in AI-generated art. He views technology as the dawn of a new era in artistic creation and seeks to be an active part of this movement. His work aims to push creative boundaries, offering audiences new ways to experience imagined worlds.

Epic Alien Landscapes

PintoCreation

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Arte e Tecnologia
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica

Epic Alien Landscapes – Italy

Embark on a cinematic voyage across otherworldly landscapes. Created with Mi djourney V6.1, animated through Hailuo AI, and set to an original Suno AI v4 soundtrack, this video brings to life vast alien worlds, futuristic civi lizations, and breathtaking digital vistas.

BIO

Since childhood, Luigi Novellino (aka PintoCreation) dreamed of distant galaxies and cities floating in the sky. Now, thanks to artificial intelligence, these dreams come to life. PintoCreation creates images that tell stories of hidden worlds, born from his passion for science fiction and his desire to share them with everyone.

Fractalicius

Julius Horsthuis

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Installations
Electronic Language International Festival

Fractalicius – Netherlands

Exploring the mysterious connection between mathematics and art, Julius Horsthuis delves into the mesmerizing realm of fractal geometry. His animations reveal surreal landscapes generated by mathematical equations, inviting viewers to contemplate infinite worlds born from invisible patterns. These works reflect the harmony between numerical abstraction and visual beauty, transforming logic into poetic expression.

BIO

Julius Horsthuis is a digital artist known for his hypnotic fractal animations that blend abstract complexity with cinematic beauty. With 15 years of experience in the Dutch film and entertainment industry as a visual effects supervisor, he transitioned into fractal animation and became a pioneer of a distinct visual language that has captivated audiences worldwide.

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A 25 minute video loop with previously unreleased tracks by DJ Hell, made in collaboration with Balenciaga.

Here is a dramatic tension in his work between the real and the imagined in his use of often-appropriated digital objects to create virtual landscapes, which frequently contain elements – animals, machines, fragments of videogames – that are recognisable from our day to day life. This creates a symbiotic relationship between the digital and the real. In a very real way digital space has now become an intangible reality. The worlds built by Robak have a distinctly cinematic sensibility that hyperbolises the shine and dramatic effects of 3D rendered animation. The aesthetic of his work is supremely important, drawing the viewer into a truly alluring, indulgent and strangely gratifying environment. There is a further challenge to the void between high-art and the worlds of 3D animation and gaming, in the intersection between depiction and simulation. This can be partially attributed to the vernacular of advertising Robak is so proficient at utilising.

FRAMERATE
Created from thousands of daily 3D time-lapse scans of British landscapes, the work observes change on a scale impossible to see with the lens of traditional cameras. This is not just an artwork. The data collected and presented by FRAMERATE is ground-breaking scientific research, containing empirical, measurable facts. We glimpse a future perpetually documented by the eyes of a billion autonomous vehicles and personal devices, creating high fidelity spatial records of the earth.

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“I look at forms in nature for inspiration – from microscopic organisms like bacteria and viruses, to moss covered stones, branches of trees, the human body, seedpods, landscapes, star charts, etc., then try to bring all of these disparate elements together in the work”

WiFi Impressionist
Wifi Impressionist is a field installation that draws electromagnetic landscapes inspired by the cityscapes of William Turner. The work consists of a directional antenna on a pan-tilt mechanism that listens for WiFi signals and builds a three dimensional model of the signals around it. From this model a viewport is selected that defines the perspective and the frame. Signals that are picked up within the frame are visualised as waves emitted from a specific origin and drawn using a mobile plotter. The antenna and the plotter are both mounted on a tripod and can be placed in the field much like a painter would set up his easel. Once positioned and oriented a drawing becomes denser over time depending on the density of networks around it. Wherever there is a WiFi signal, the drawing will eventually fill the frame.

Remains Series
Video is one of several ways Quayola explores his relationship with the world—and he has a mesmerizing way of undercutting reality while celebrating it. During Miami Art Week, Quayola premiered “Promenade,” a 4K drone-shot film of impeccable beauty. Commissioned by Audemars Piguet, the work winds through and above the forests of the Vallée de Joux, Switzerland near the brand’s historic watchmaking facility. In waves of interconnected footage, it translates documentation of the landscapes into digital art drawn from various technologies. It succeeds in a deep dissection of form.

Modern Desert Magic
Petecia Le Fawnhawk is a modern surrealist whose body of work is a meditation in form as monuments juxtaposed against minimal and ethereal desert landscapes. In placing elemental shapes in a vast dreamscape, Petecia strips away the unnecessary in an attempt to reveal truth in the mysterious and magisterial.

It Wasn’t Us

A painting by Katharina Grosse can appear anywhere. Her large-scale works are multi-dimensional pictorial worlds in which splendid color sweeps across walls, ceilings, objects, and even entire buildings and landscapes. For the exhibition “It Wasn’t Us” the artist has transformed the Historic Hall of Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin as well as the outdoor space behind the building, into an expansive painting which radically destabilises the existing order of the museum architecture.

The Present Condition

The landscapes of ‘The Present Condition’ derive from a journey of more than 15,000 km by land by the artist between the two geographical extremes of South America. The video is suffused with a surreal atmosphere, where real and imaginary spaces intersect. Concepts such as human intimacy, desire, work, the savage capitalism that builds cathedrals in the desert, the perverse bureaucracy and the construction of the border wall are just some of the elements that are mixed in a striking and suggestive mosaic of images.

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Drawing inspiration from Renaissance fresco painting, Adam Cvijanovic’s ‘portable murals’ depict contemporary landscapes with a sense of celestial awe. Spanning 75 feet, Cvijanovic’s Love Poem captures the dreamy and disquieting essence of suburban Americana as a rapturous science fiction tableau. Envisioning sun-bleached L.A. ten minutes after the end of gravity, Cvijanovic’s utopia ascends in a whirlwind of consumerist ecstasy. Emulating movie backdrops as well as the acclivous perspective of cathedral dome tromp l’oiels, Love Poem… combines the sublime horror of disaster films with a majestic religiosity, as bungalows, Broncos, and palm trees are destroyed in the exaltation of their own perfectness. Painted entirely by the artist without assistants, on a plastic used by Fed Ex, Cvijavovic’s work reconstitutes the intimacy of timeless artistry with a modern day immediacy.

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The oeuvre of Eelco Brand belongs to a pictorial tradition in which landscape and genre scenes play a leading role, but goes beyond the traditional forms of this genre. Realistically looking landscapes are combined with abstract components, absurdity and humour are constantly accompanying the artworks of Eelco Brand. The landscapes seem familiar to us, evoking the impression of having seen them before – stereotypes, completely virtually constructed, but of a strong expressive power. But is not any form of visualisation of landscapes constructed, even those we see in our mind’s eye when we imagine a landscape? The artworks of Eelco Brand encourages us to think about our perception of reality.