THE ROCK
THAT YOU CAN
Design Speculative Concept Arts
2019

Research and Prototype with

Austin Lightle

Jordan Schuermann

In the world loaded with design resources and tool, designs could happen before a need and design intention. It becomes a process of sampling and processing, which does not necessarily need human participations.

When computer aids designers more than the designer could control, then we must maintain our authorship in discovering a new approach to functions and needs. The functions could be found and assigned, rather than being the design origin. It is a search of taxonomy system of things through scanning, mapping and reproducing.

Then, a rock, or any rock can be a rock that you can...
THE REQUEST:

If function/application come after the form.

If function/application can be forced.

If function/application is the result rather than reason.

Then --

Rock Taxonomy

THE ROCK:

That is a good shelf.

That you could sit on.

That you can throw far.

That does this and that.

That you can get lost in.

That is a good mountain.

That you would sleep on.

That you can eat soup out of.

That you could use as a loofah.

That you can use as a tenderizer.

That you would build a wall out of.

That Preston Scott Cohen would turn into a museum.

Catalog of Manipulation
// Short Film
// Unreal Engine
// Environment Art
// World Building
Erasure
Speculative Short Film
// Interactive Exhibition
// Unreal Engine Blueprints
// OSC // Game Controller
D' Sync
Interactive Projection Installation
// Short Film
// Unreal Engine
// Environment Art
// World Building
The Ninth Wave
Speculative Game Trailer
// Short Film
// AI/Machine Learning
//Cinema4d // generative art
DOG: Dream of Galaxy
AI Aided Film
// Interactive Installation
// Environment Art
// Depth Camera
// Unreal Engine Blueprints
Lilith Aeon
Realtime Interactive LED Installation
// software dev
// audio-visual //uiux
// multi-user
// unreal engine blueprints
MXR
Realtime VJ Tool
// Ai/Machine Learning
// Houdini // Cinema4d
// responsive Environment
Neural Bodies
Motion Design
// Animation
// Cinema4d
// Interactive Experience
Lumin Lodge
Immersive Experience
// Product Design
// Cinematic Ads
// Interactive
//Fabrication
The Machine
Speculative Product Design + Commercial
// Product Design
// AI/Machine Learning
// Unity
// Generative Art
Classic of Fantasies
AI Product Design
// AR // Unity
// Hololens
// Interactive Exhibition
// Digital Fabrication
Curved Notion
AR Aided Digital Fabrication
// Facial Capture
// TouchDesigner
// Interactives
Album Dream
Interactive Projection
// Interavtive Sculpture
// Arduino
// Acutaed material
1001 Flowers
Responsive Sculpture
// Product Design
// Fabrication
// Digital Sculpture
The Rock that You Can
Digital Sculpture
// Video Essay
// Maya
// Animation
// World Building
Rod in the Forest
Video Essay
// Procedural Tools
// software // Python
// Unreal Engine Blueprints
Tools
Tool Development