Machine Visions: Mojave is a short, hemispherical music video featuring aerial 360 video of the Mojave Desert landscape near Joshua Tree National Park. Photogrammetry was used to convert the 360 videos into 3D models, which were rendered as wireframe meshes then re-animated in the Unity 3D game engine, exported as spherical videos, and reframed for dome projection.

Machine Visions explores the fragile ecosystem of the Joshua Tree, which is endangered due to climate change, and experiments with technologies of vision to reveal features of the landscape that are perceived by instruments without being visible to the human eye.

Director:

Steve Anderson

Steve F. Anderson is a filmmaker, media artist, curator and writer working at the intersection of media, history and technology. He has written or edited books on media historiography, technologies... Read More