2023 Bridges Conference Short Film Festival

Kofi Oduro

Filmmakers

Kofi Oduro

Creative Coder /Research Assistant/ Data Driven World Builder & Storyteller

Montreal, Quebec, Canads

illestpreacha@outlook.com

https://blog.illestpreacha.com/

https://colorscape.illestpreacha.com/colorscape

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Statement

Kofi Oduro(Illestpreacha) is an Experiential Storyteller that transforms sounds, data, words and code into experiences that nurtures discussion, reflection, and interaction. Through Experiences of performance, event & audiovisual production, he takes inspiration from endeavours that are not normally together to create a harmonic experience for audiences. His artistic practice is an observation of the world around us that he puts into artworks for others to relate to or disagree with as to highlight the realms of human performance and the human mind in different scenarios.

Films

Image for entry 'DigiAnnelida: The Story to Be'

DigiAnnelida: The Story to Be

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Kofi Oduro (illestpreacha) Coded Tools Use LiveCodeLab Seis8s

2023

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Annelids refers to species such as earthworms/leeches Used a green background in LiveCodeLab to mimic a green screen and overlaying the same sketch four times with various rotations/ positioning. Created the Organisms through using Sin & Cos Functions to create them. Full Info ( Code Snippet and Math Equations) https://blog.illestpreacha.com/wccchallenge-digitalorganism Poem Snippet: What if We can build Organisms Through the strides of time Through the virtue of lines But represented in cos and sine That merges That blends The different areas that mends Adding modulo To see how the different angles May roll May be control Through the lens of digi annelids As they squirm As they wiggle Wiggle and dangle From different viewpoints Where the modulo controls the joints As they may be like squids, snails or worms