From March to August, motion designers had the opportunity to showcase their work in the RADO MOVING MATERIALS competition with animations produced specifically for the video wall in the Rado Boutique in Vienna – this time on the theme of “Anatomy of Motion”. During the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, all six episodes of the joint format will be shown again both at the Festival Headquarters and at the Rado Boutique at Kärntner Straße 18. The showcase at the Festival Headquarters will be complemented by design pieces from Rado.

EPISODE 1: DIE SCHAIBE
Kubakub

„DIE SCHAIBE is a paradoxical experiment between chance and control. On a rotating surface that is simultaneously a clock face, a model of the world, and an AI projection, a figure wanders through fragments of a decentered reality. The work is not only a video, but also a threshold space that raises questions: Are we the observers – or the observed? The figure, a Sisyphus of the digital age, does not run through time, but is trapped in it. Material worlds mutate under this pressure: Precision becomes a façade behind which chaos lurks. The work does not celebrate technology but exposes it as an archived belief in progress and control. In the end, all that remains is the realization that we are pilgrims on a disc whose edge has long slipped into the algorithm.“
kubakub.art

EPISODE 2: NEVER NOT MOVING
Alexandra Dzhiganskaya

“In NEVER NOT MOVING we explore pulsating life against the backdrop of the majestic Alps. The animation unfolds in an endless loop, capturing the unstoppable flow of time. Each character embodies their own pace, emphasizing the different ways we experience life despite sharing the same vast world. This evocative scene celebrates the rhythm of life and reminds us that we are all part of a larger narrative. It invites the viewers to reflect on their relationship with time and appreciate the beauty of movement in all its forms.”
alexandradzh.com

EPISODE 3: THE ART OF MUSIC
Gabrielle Schauerhuber

“The art of movement and music share a common essence: time. What would movement be without connecting it to music? Together, they transcend and complement each other. When music notes and lines meet, a new language is born. In this 2D animation, made frame by frame, the invisible union is connected and explored. Both are born from rhythm, breathe in the interval, and exist in passing. And in this connection, they reveal another way of feeling: Where silence gains form and movement gains voice.”
olaschauerhuber.com

EPISODE 4: ARROW OF TIME
Vincent Wagner

“How does measuring time affect how we see the passage of time? Does it make us aware of how temporary our existence is, or is it more the experience of this temporariness that gives measuring time meaning? In moving images, we experience time and motion as a sequence of static states, with their speed defined by the number of frames per second. Unlike movement through space, we cannot control our movement through time. The static moment can only be captured technically, as a still image, but cannot be grasped individually in the passage of time as we experience it. ARROW OF TIME is an attempt to explore the relationship between timekeeping, perception of time, and the idea of movement as a succession of static states.”
vincent.computer

EPISODE 5: GRANULAR TIMING
Céline Hurka / Jules Janssen

"GRANULAR TIMING deals with familiar clichés that dominate the artistic discourse around the concept of time: hyperproductivity, temporal subjectivity, and the desire to measure the immeasurable. The film is entirely typographic and uses variable font technology as a narrative tool, unfolding in an endless loop in which scenes glide seamlessly between the light and dark modes of contemporary user interfaces. GRANULAR TIMING gently mocks our compulsion to capture and represent something as fleeting and immaterial as time itself. The work is also a response to the concept of ’granular time’ introduced by Silvio Lorusso in his text for the Post-Consumerist Research Network Garden (www.0000.garden): '[...] so let’s make sure to not bring clock or stopwatch in when they’re not needed.'”
celine-hurka.com
julesjanssen.biz

EPISODE 6: TEMPORAL SKIN
Verena Repar

“An inanimate body carries its history in its materiality. It is its skin, which is constantly changing and refers to the past. Material exists as a carrier of time. Its traces reflect what has been lived. Abstract bodies awaken, oscillate in temporal cycles, unfold, and pass away in a ceaseless flow.”
instagram.com/verizzles