Kevin Peter He is an artist based in Brooklyn who uses real and virtual cameras and bodies to create distinctly alive and emotional real-time cinema.
PASSAGE
Realtime Audiovisual Series: Performance & Installation
Passage is a speculative audio-visual series where the ecosystem becomes a live instrument. What does nature look and sound like if it was born out of a computer? The project explores the entanglement of natural and artificial systems through a lush forest of cybernetic flora and fauna, with AI governing their behavior in a game engine. Passage has two parts, a live performance in collaboration with the musician Torus, and an interactive installation.
FLUX
Audiovisual Live Cinema Performance
Flux is an experimental 3D live cinema that explores the emotions of turbulence and acceptance through the story of an android discovering what it means to be human. Co-directed and performed by visual artist Kevin Peter He and musician Jake Oleson, this virtual performance aims to infuse the expressiveness of electronic music into the cinematic language using Unreal Engine.
MIZU - prphtbrd
CGI Music Video
The prphtbrd music video is an avant-garde exploration of harshness and chaos, crafted entirely through digital means. In a dark and abstract reminiscent of a dense forest, a 3D-scanned avatar of MIZU flickers and warps from a human into a tree, then a bird. The hybrid figure rises as a testament to the possibilities of the digital as the realm of self-discovery.
DOORS WE OPEN
Interactive Short Film
Doors We Open is a screen-based interactive film that alternates between live action film and 3D gameplay to explore the relationship of an estranged father and daughter struggling to connect over generational trauma. The story uses the two mediums as a metaphor for the divide between how we present ourselves to family and our thoughts below the surface. Doors We Open is part of Tribeca Festival 2023.
FLUME x COACHELLA AR
Live Concert Broadcast AR
In 2022, Coachella partnered with Epic Games to incorporate AR visuals into its festival livestream, first of its kind. We worked with Flume’s artistic team to create massive psychedelic 3D images that blended in seamlessly with his stage design and set, floating around the artist and into the Indio sky.
OPN - A BARELY LIT PATH
Virtual Production Music Video
Virtual production for Oneohtrix Point Never’s music video A Barely Lit Path utilizing a real-time playable AV system on ZeroSpace’s LED wall in a car process shoot.
A$AP ROCKY - CHILD’S PLAY
Virtual Production Campaign Video
Child’s Play is the campaign video for A$AP Rocky’s collaboration with PUMA. Blending German expressionism with a vibrant and playful world, the video shows how when we grow up we so often lose our child-like spirit and imagination. This campaign serves as a reminder to never limit your imagination or lose sight of your dreams.
RTFKT PROJECT ANIMUS & MNLTH 3
Interactive Twitch Live Stream
In 2022, RTFKT launched three groundbreaking interactive Twitch live stream experiences, where thousands of people engaged with 3D immersive worlds in real time through their comments, which influenced how the story would unfold.
LISA JAMHOURY - MAQUETTE
Live Motion Capture Performance
Maquette is a live interactive performance leveraging motion capture technology, avatars, and dance in an exploration of the parallel histories of averaging and idealism in art and society. The show was performed at NEW INC and Media Art Xploration (MAX).
SOUGWEN CHUNG - GENESIS LIFE/LINES
Performance & Spatial Art
In GENESIS, the latest work by artist Sougwen Chung, the evolution of a drawing can be experienced in new spatial and temporal orientations. From the spatially recorded lines digital geometries are generated for physical fabrication, returning the marks-made-by-hand in virtual space back to the tactile materiality of physical space.
KOZABURO SS24
Fashion Creative Direction
SS24 Creative Direction for the LVMH prize winning Japanese fashion brand KOZABURO. Made the mythical landscape of "The Land of Setting Sun” come to life through a virtual lookbook shoot, fashion film shot on a NYC subway, and NYFW runway show with full scenic install.
PET-TREE-KOR AW23
Fashion Brand Video
AW23 video for fashion brand pet-tree-kor takes its cues from the brand’s name, a re-spelling of "petrichor," and the underlying philosophy centered on the interdependent connection between urban humans and nature. As the video unfolds, the coexistence of organic foliage and industrial metal evolves from a stark contrast into a seamless harmony, blending within the forest setting. The video was presented as an installation at Dover Street Market Beijing.
SEQUENCE
Transmedia Fashion Collection
SEQUENCE explores contextual human emotions in the form of virtual and tactile narratives. Our inaugural transmedia capsule collection Prelude explores the feeling of vulnerability and safety during times of unpredictability caused by technology and political turbulence.
ASLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN
Interactive Robotics Sculpture
Asleep with One Eye Open visualizes police surveillance through a visceral form factor that combines new technologies such as facial recognition and robotics with age-old motifs such as spiders and puppetry.
ICARUS
Interactive Web Experience
Icarus is an introspective reflection on our relationship with the environment. Using the webcam and interactive audio, we invite viewers to participate and consider their agency in their ecological surroundings in a browser based experimental experience.
MEMENTO
IoT Device & Digital Art
Memento is a camera that captures the sensory feeling of different moments and preserves it in a virtual darkroom. The project consists of a physical camera that captures environmental data via sensors then visualizes it in a 3D space.
CUSTOM SCENARIO
Live Audiovisual Performance
Custom Scenario (Elias Jarzombek & Amos Damroth) and Kevin Peter He’s live show at ZeroSpace. Music is performed via electric guitar, bass, and custom MIDI synthesizer, visuals are created and performed in Unreal Engine, show was mapped via Disguise onto the LED wall.
FIREFLY
Large Scale Architectural Projection Mapping
Firefly is a mind-dazzling architectural projection mapping narrative about light and darkness. It was the headlining event at the 2021 LUMA Projection Arts Festival, the largest architectural projection mapping festival in the US.
SEALED FATE
Critical Digital Art
Sealed Fate is a visualization of the death penalty in the form of a dystopian prison cell. Made of an automated smart concrete, the opening gradually closes up upon the completion of a death sentence, forming into a coffin.
A HANDFUL OF DUST
Interactive Illustrated Story
A Handful of Dust is an interactive illustrated story. The character embarks on an introspective journey to explore an unfamiliar place, interrogating the unseen establishment of safety in the process.