States of Convergence

Anthony Burke
States of Convergence

Country: Australia
Year: 2008
Duration: 6'44''

This short film was created for the Australian National Architecture Conference 2008 Critical Visions section. An invited submission, teams of architects were asked to speculate on Sydney in the Year 2050. This is a film in four scenes, each illuminating a future of technological convergence and its impact on the form of the city. A determinedly non-utopian non-distopian position, technology in 2050 is seen to dramatically shape the city, while remaining a part of its infrastructural background. Information systems, energy production and monitoring systems and a host of other tech converge, yet most of the city as it appears today remains. How does technological infrastructure insert itself into this future? The film was produced and directed by the Vector Guerrillas, a team of architects, designers, animation and architecture students from the university of technology, Sydney in 2008.

Anthony Burke is a Director of Offshore Studio, an architecture and research practice based in Sydney, Australia. He is also the Director of the masters of Advanced Architecture post professional degree program, and Senior lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney. (http://offshorestudio.net)

Additional credits:
Director and producer: Vector Guerrillas (Anthony Burke with Joanne Jakovich, Jason Benedek, Robert Beson, David Burns, Philip Clemens, Ashley Dennis, Nuno Gomes, Pascal Groneker, Andreas Heikaus, Benjamin Hewett, Michael Hill, Joanne Kinniburgh, Adrian Lahoud, Sylvie Milosevic, Wei Ning, Bernd Peterwerth, Esan Ullah, Rahmani Charles Rice, Manuel Ritter, Marian Sander, Jie Song, Samantha Spurr, Paula Vigeant, Jing Wang, Fei Zhou, Arts Hanover, Asabiyah, Biofidus, //jakovich.net, Many Are Here, Offshorestudio, University of Technology Sydney, University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Hanover, Village Green)

Video selected by Image ARCHIVE http://www.image-web.org/archive for VISIONS, the 9th edition of the BEYOND MEDIA festival http://www.beyondmedia.it.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Architecture
• City
• Video
• BEYOND
• MEDIA
• Image
• ARCHIVE
• Festival
• VISIONS

[robbie84]

Reminds me of half life for sure in a way :D