Event overview
Artist talk from AI/CG artist Balfua (aka Sam Balfus)
Berlin-based artist and musician Sam Balfus crafting immersive digital artworks rooted in world-building, fantasy, and the liminality of describable experience. Music and visuals converge in intricate, multisensory environments where he integrates various analogue and digital techniques—drawing, sculpture, Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI), animation, VR, 3D printing, and AI. He has worked on projects for Meta and Gucci and collaborated with Hunter Schafer and Björk.
Among these environments is Sayssiworld, an evolving digital ecosystem populated by mystical AI generated spirits that Balfus terms "slollas". Balfua builds the world of his unique characters through a combination of conventional and digital processing tools. The characters, created with CGI and AI, have evolved over the years with the introduction of AI tools, and represent the emergent and unpredictable possibilities of AI as a medium. The videos are combined with original musical compositions that further animate the creations and integrate them into a history of ritual practice and dance.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 26 Feb 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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