The Noise of Being

2017
Future Fossils and a Playable Book.

We imagined and sculpted ‘future fossils’ as leftovers after humankind’s devastating existence in the age of the Anthropocene. These fossils aka pickled humans, are hybrids between geological, technological, and biological bodies. The Noise of Being visual identity was articulated through a video game featuring the festival reader, which became a meta-book: a self-contained medium, playable publication, explorable book-worlding. The design of this experience is our answer to how a publication can become an environment. How can we experience books differently? Commissioned by Sonic Acts.

  • The Noise of Being: a future fossil, pickled skin with three eyes, floats on purple, 'SONIC ACTS Festival' in white
  • The Noise of Being: a pickled-human fossil fuses hand and eye in a dimpled dark body on green, 'SONIC ACTS Festival'
  • The Noise of Being: in the video game, festival reader pages float under stars, a green vine loops past a mottled rock
  • The Noise of Being: a future fossil, green eye in cracked silver skin, drifts on purple under 'THE NOISE OF BEING'
  • The Noise of Being: pickled humans tangle in collage on the festival reader's purple pages, white text and smiley tabs beside
  • The Noise of Being: the festival reader, a meta-book, opens at pages 70-71, an essay on 'The Thing', smiley tabs peeking out
  • The Noise of Being: text-heavy purple poster, a pickled human future fossil peers past 'SONIC ACTS Festival' and its venues
  • The Noise of Being: the playable book rests on grey rock, pickled humans crowd its purple spread with eyes, lips and a hand
  • The Noise of Being: two green booklets, a pickled human gazes up, a speckled future fossil grips a hand, 'SONIC ACTS'
  • The Noise of Being: text-heavy green publication spread in white type, 'SONIC ACTS Exhibition' and 'impossible environments'
  • The Noise of Being: a white scanner cradles an eye under blue lamps, technological meets biological, 'Ophiux' text beside
  • The Noise of Being: two purple booklets carry future fossils, one cracked silver, one brown with dark eyes, 'PROGRAMME GUIDE'
  • The Noise of Being: hybrid bodies on pink, two gnarled hands clasp a smooth pale wrist, 'Kate Cooper' text page beside
  • The Noise of Being: text-heavy purple poster, a hybrid future fossil in cracked silver eyes 'THE NOISE OF BEING'
  • The Noise of Being: the festival identity fills a purple screen above seated figures, a green lizard eye, 'ERICA SCOURTI'
  • The Noise of Being: text-heavy purple poster, a hand grips a speckled future fossil with one green eye, 'SONIC ACTS Festival'