Rick Silva & Nicolas Sassoon

CORES #9 is a collaborative digital animation by Rick Silva & Nicolas Sassoon using a high-resolution 3D-scanned rock as its basis and starting point. The rock model is altered using Boolean operations and textural animations, revealing an abstract pulsating layer within the stone and suggesting unnatural geological properties.

Curated by Denver Digerati as part of the 5th annual Supernova Digital Animation Festival "World on Fire". A version of the project CORES will be officially launched online in September, alongside an essay by Jussi Parikka and Elise Misao Hunchuck. This will include the previous 8 animations Rick and I made for the project, it won't include the piece we created for Denver!